Hackaday

text compression

There are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some of them are true, others stretch definitions a ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

The technique can also be used to produce more training data for AI models. Model developers are currently grappling with a ...

DeepSeek unveils AI model that uses visual perception to compress text input

New release continues Chinese start-up's efforts to raise AI models' efficiency, while driving down the costs of building and ...
Hackaday

AI Can Now Compress Text

There are many claims in the air about the capabilities of AI systems, as the technology continues to ascend the dizzy heights of the hype cycle. Some of them are true, others stretch definitions a ...

DeepSeek-OCR: Images Simplify Text for Large Language Models

DeepSeek is experimenting with an OCR model and shows that compressed images are more memory-friendly for calculations on ...

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Using AI, you enter text. The text gets converted into numbers that are tokens. What if we used images of text instead of pure text. A clever idea. An AI Insider scoop.
IEEE

Boosting Text Compression with Word-Based Statistical Encoding

Abstract: Semistatic word-based byte-oriented compressors are known to be attractive alternatives to compress natural language texts. With compression ratios around 30–35%, they allow fast direct ...
Htxt.Africa

How computers compress text: A quick video by Tom Scott

We’ve been meaning to write a larger story on the great Youtube channel operated by Tom Scott – and maybe have him in for an interview for our YouTube series – but for now we just want to point out a ...