French AI startup Mistral on Tuesday released Mixtral 8x22B, a new large language model (LLM) and its latest attempt to compete with the big boys in the AI arena. Mixtral 8x22B is expected to outperform Mistral's previous Mixtral 8x7B LLM, which itself showed signs of outshining OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and Meta's Llama 2, according to Gigazine.The new Mixtral model boasts a 65,000-token context window, which refers to the amount of text that an AI model can process and reference at one time. Further,...
London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you'd expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intelligence and has already appeared as a stand-in for the real-life Alexsandrah in a photo shoot. Alexsandrah, who goes by her first name professionally, in turn receives credit and compensation whenever the AI version of herself gets used - just like a human model. Alexsandrah says she and her alter-ego mirror...
Thomas Kurian (and Sundar Pichai) lays out why Google Cloud should be the choice if your business is keen on AI.
According to Demis Hassabis, the child prodigy who founded DeepMind, Google is likely to invest more than $100 billion in AI technology and applications in the near future. DeepMind is a British-American research laboratory that has been working on AI since 2010. Google acquired the company in 2014.Read Entire Article
In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil. So why shouldn’t you be able to sell your own? From big tech firms to startups, AI makers are licensing e-books, images, videos, audio and more from data brokers, all in the pursuit of training up more capable (and more legally defensible) AI-powered products. Shutterstock […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A new bill introduced by Rep. Adam Schiff would require all AI companies to disclose the copyrighted works used in training sets or face a fine. [Read More]
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Google argues that access to AI systems is better understood in terms of different degrees of access to different components of a given system, giving the example of Gemma which offers free access to model weights, but under a custom license.
aiXcoder 7B is a new open-source coding large language model with 7 billion parameters that has demonstrated superior performance in code generation tasks compared to other models like Code Llama 34B and Star Coder 15B. It supports multiple programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, C++, and others, and integrates with popular IDEs such as VS Code […]
Stricter licensing for AI training data, along with a whole ethical AI framework, is being pushed by screenwriting guilds to protect writers.
Llama 3 is Meta’s latest generation of models that has state-of-the art performance and efficiency for openly available LLMs. Meta AI is available online for free. The small 7B model beats Mistral 7B and Gemma 7B. The 70B beats Claude 3 Sonnet (closed source Anthropic model) and competes against Gemini Pro 1.5 (closed source model
Zuckerberg says new AI model "was still learning" when Meta stopped training.