Tag: Open source

Anthropic slashes AI pricing amid rising competition

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. For enterprise companies exploring opportunities in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), a new development promises greater access and affordability. Anthropic, a leading AI model lab, today dropped the per-token pricing of […]

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Why the open source community might be the biggest winner of the OpenAI fallout

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. This morning, Microsoft made the surprise move of hiring Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the former CEO and President of OpenAI, respectively. This strategic decision appears to be Microsoft’s attempt […]

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Microsoft recommits to open source AI models, despite OpenAI investment

Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. Microsoft unveiled a flurry of generative AI announcements at its annual Ignite 2023 conference in Seattle yesterday, but among the most important news is its recommitment to open source generative […]

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Running thousands of LLMs on one GPU is now possible with S-LoRA

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass Fine-tuning large language models (LLM) has become an important tool for businesses seeking to tailor AI capabilities to niche tasks and personalized user experiences. But fine-tuning usually comes with steep […]

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FTC hosts challenge to stop harms of voice cloning AI

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass Voice cloning — the practice of mimicking someone’s voice so well it can pass for the real thing — has had a banner year, with a range of AI startups […]

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Silo AI unveils Poro, a new open source language model for Europe

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass Helsinki, Finland-based artificial intelligence startup Silo AI made waves this week by unveiling Poro, a new open source large language model (LLM) aimed at advancing multilingual AI capabilities for European […]

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Forget ChatGPT, why Llama and open source AI win 2023

Could a furry camelid take the 2023 crown for the biggest AI story of the year? If we’re talking about Llama, Meta’s large language model that took the AI research world by storm in February — followed by the commercial Llama 2 in July and Code Llama in August — I would argue that the […]

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Meet LLEMMA, the math-focused open source AI that outperforms rivals

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More In a new paper, researchers from various universities and Eleuther AI, a company renowned for its open-source models, introduce LLEMMA, an open-source large language model (LLM) specifically designed to solve mathematical problems. LLEMMA surpasses […]

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The open-source alternatives to GPT-4 Vision are coming

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The landscape of generative artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly with the advent of large multimodal models (LMM). These models are transforming the way we interact with AI systems, allowing us to use both images […]

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Replit brings open source AI developer tools to all users 

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Developer tooling vendor Replit is out this week with a series of new efforts designed to help bring AI for all developers. Replit’s cloud software development platform is widely used with the company claiming […]

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Improving accessibility of online graphics for blind users

The beauty of a nice infographic published alongside a news or magazine story is that it makes numeric data more accessible to the average reader. But for blind and visually impaired users, such graphics often have the opposite effect. For visually impaired users — who frequently rely on screen-reading software that speaks words or numbers […]

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Today’s AI is ‘alchemy,’ not science — what that means and why that matters | The AI Beat

A New York Times article this morning, titled “How to Tell if Your AI Is Conscious,” says that in a new report, “scientists offer a list of measurable qualities that might indicate the presence of some presence in a machine” based on a “brand-new” science of consciousness.  The article immediately jumped out at me, as […]

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Deci roars into action, releasing hyper-efficient AI models for text and image generation

The market of foundational generative AI models — those that are powerful and capable enough to serve a broad swath of use cases, from coding to content generation — is getting more crowded by the day. But Israeli startup Deci is hoping to make a splash in the industry by targeting one very specific and […]

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Meet Phi-1.5, the new language model that could make training AI radically cheaper and faster 

Training AI large language models (LLMs) like those currently making waves in the enterprise software market — ChatGPT, LLaMA 2, Claude 2, Bard, Falcon 180B, etc. — typically requires extensive and specialized compute power. Little wonder, then, that it has been relegated to larger, well-funded organizations like OpenAI, Meta, Cohere, Google, Technology Innovation Institute in […]

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Fast-tracking fusion energy’s arrival with AI and accessibility

As the impacts of climate change continue to grow, so does interest in fusion’s potential as a clean energy source. While fusion reactions have been studied in laboratories since the 1930s, there are still many critical questions scientists must answer to make fusion power a reality, and time is of the essence. As part of […]

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