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How Google’s AI can help transform health professions education | Insights by Willow Ventures

Acknowledgements The research described here is a joint effort across Google Research, Google for Health, Google DeepMind, and partnering teams. The following researchers contributed to this work: Kevin McKee, Dan Gillick, Irina Jurenka, Markus Kunesch, Kaiz Alarakyia, Miriam Schneider, Jenn Sturgeon, Maggie Shiels, Amy Wang, Roma Ruparel, Anna Iurchenko, Mahvish Nagda, Julie Anne Séguin, Divya […]

What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition? | Insights by Willow Ventures

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one […]

Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M | Insights by Willow Ventures

Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash. “Today’s browsers weren’t built for work; they were built for browsing. This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s […]