LAION cleans up its image dataset: Plus, OLMoE outcompetes smaller open models
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LAION cleans up its image dataset: Plus, OLMoE outcompetes smaller open models

AlphaProteo, a DeepMind system that designs novel proteins, updates and price drops for Command-R and Command-R+, Anthropic shows off easy software projects in Claude, YouTube builds system to detect synthetic music and faces.

September 6, 20243 min read
Redefining what counts as open source AI: A small hybrid model for fast on-device inference
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Redefining what counts as open source AI: A small hybrid model for fast on-device inference

The Open Source Initiative updated its Open Source AI Definition draft, clarifying that both AI models and weights must meet open source standards.

September 2, 20243 min read
Redefining what counts as open source AI: A small hybrid model for fast on-device inference
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Redefining what counts as open source AI: A small hybrid model for fast on-device inference

The Open Source Initiative updated its Open Source AI Definition draft, clarifying that both AI models and weights must meet open source standards.

September 2, 20243 min read
Qwen-2VL shines on vision tasks: Cerebras processes up to 1,800 tokens per second
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Qwen-2VL shines on vision tasks: Cerebras processes up to 1,800 tokens per second

Qwen2-VL is available as 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions under an Apache 2.0 license, as well as a 72 billion parameter API version.

August 30, 20243 min read
Qwen-2VL shines on vision tasks: Cerebras processes up to 1,800 tokens per second
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Qwen-2VL shines on vision tasks: Cerebras processes up to 1,800 tokens per second

Qwen2-VL is available as 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions under an Apache 2.0 license, as well as a 72 billion parameter API version.

August 30, 20243 min read
Nvidia makes new mini versions of open models: Plus, Apple trains low-power “always-on” AI models
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Nvidia makes new mini versions of open models: Plus, Apple trains low-power “always-on” AI models

NVIDIA and Mistral AI introduced Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a new language model that outperforms similarly sized models on multiple benchmarks.

August 26, 20243 min read
Nvidia makes new mini versions of open models: Plus, Apple trains low-power “always-on” AI models
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Nvidia makes new mini versions of open models: Plus, Apple trains low-power “always-on” AI models

NVIDIA and Mistral AI introduced Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a new language model that outperforms similarly sized models on multiple benchmarks.

August 26, 20243 min read
Jamba 1.5 models mix transformers with Mamba: Plus, Ideogram’s new image model with a new API
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Jamba 1.5 models mix transformers with Mamba: Plus, Ideogram’s new image model with a new API

The two new Jamba models use a hybrid solid state model-transformer architecture, feature an effective 256,000-token context window, and outperform competitors in their size

August 23, 20243 min read
Jamba 1.5 models mix transformers with Mamba: Plus, Ideogram’s new image model with a new API
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Jamba 1.5 models mix transformers with Mamba: Plus, Ideogram’s new image model with a new API

The two new Jamba models use a hybrid solid state model-transformer architecture, feature an effective 256,000-token context window, and outperform competitors in their size

August 23, 20243 min read
OpenAI’s unreleased ChatGPT detector: Plus, DeepMind’s new robot plays table tennis
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OpenAI’s unreleased ChatGPT detector: Plus, DeepMind’s new robot plays table tennis

ByteDance’s China-only video app, U.K. watchdog probes Anthropic’s deals, New Writer models for medicine and finance, SambaNova’s speedy inference platform

August 17, 20243 min read
OpenAI’s unreleased ChatGPT detector: Plus, DeepMind’s new robot plays table tennis
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OpenAI’s unreleased ChatGPT detector: Plus, DeepMind’s new robot plays table tennis

ByteDance’s China-only video app, U.K. watchdog probes Anthropic’s deals, New Writer models for medicine and finance, SambaNova’s speedy inference platform

August 17, 20243 min read
xAI releases new Grok-2 LLM to paid users of X: Plus, Google’s Imagen 3 rivals top text-to-image models
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xAI releases new Grok-2 LLM to paid users of X: Plus, Google’s Imagen 3 rivals top text-to-image models

A new automated paper-writing system from Sakana AI, GitHub’s Autofix uses GPT-4 to find and plug security holes, Google’s new AI voice assistant...

August 16, 20243 min read
xAI releases new Grok-2 LLM to paid users of X: Plus, Google’s Imagen 3 rivals top text-to-image models
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xAI releases new Grok-2 LLM to paid users of X: Plus, Google’s Imagen 3 rivals top text-to-image models

A new automated paper-writing system from Sakana AI, GitHub’s Autofix uses GPT-4 to find and plug security holes, Google’s new AI voice assistant...

August 16, 20243 min read
GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands
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GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands

Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer

August 9, 20243 min read
GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands
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GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands

Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer

August 9, 20243 min read

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