Chris and Daniel take some time to cover recent trends in AI and some noteworthy publications. In particular, they discuss the increasing AI momentum in the majority world (Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Caribbean), and they dig into Hugging Face’s recent model distillation results.Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean now offers three managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Get started for free with a $50 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. All Things Open – Exploring open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Raleigh, NC — October 13-15, 2019 The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Featuring:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:AI in the majority world:NeurIPS publications by country“Best” universities according to the Times Higher EducationICLR in EthiopiaGoogle AI offices: BangaloreGhanaBeijingDeep Learning IndabaSoutheast Asia Machine Learning SchoolFacebook’s AI for India summitAI SingaporeIndonesia AI research centerArtificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universeDistilBERT from Hugging FaceThree People-Centered Design Principles for Deep LearningPapers with codeUpcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here!