Following Elon Musk's latest dispute with OpenAI, lawsuit included, xAI has followed through with the promise of delivering an open release of Grok-1. The weights and architecture have been released under an Apache 2.0 license, and the inference code is available on xAI's GitHub.
Jan Koum's Newlands VC leads $10M investment into SuperAGI; Apple quietly bought DarwinAI to compete in the gen AI race; Databricks announces a partnership with Mistral AI; Zendesk confirms the acquisition of Ultimate; OpenAI partners with Le Monde and Prisa Media
Deci is debuting a series of LLMs and a Gen AI Development Platform. The first model is Deci-Nano, which features competitive benchmark scores, a fast throughput, and an affordable price. Deci-Nano and supported models can be deployed via Deci's platform via API, a VPC, or on-premises.
Cohere recently launched Command-R, a RAG-focused model incorporating several features designed with scalable implementation in mind, including a large context window, business proficiency in 10 languages, and tool access via external APIs. Command-R is available for deployment starting March 11.
The dstack team has introduced dstack Sky, a managed service enabling users' access to GPUs from a wide selection of providers at competitive rates and without the hassle of managing individual provider accounts.
India is launching an AI advisory following the Google Gemini incident; Researchers are looking into optical computing as a foundation for AI; Amazon Bedrock announced the incorporation of the Claude 3 model family; OpenAI had another tumultuous week; Cognizant revealed its new advanced AI lab
A research team at Microsoft fine-tuned Mistral-7B to create Orca-Math, a small language model achieving state-of-the-art performance in solving grade school math problems (GSM8k). Orca-Math has a performance surpassing many LLMs, including math-specific models MetaMath-70B and WizardMa8th-70B.
Metaplane has raised $13.8 million in a Series A round led by Felicis Ventures. Metaplane incorporates metadata extraction, domain-specific ML, and integrations to deliver an end-to-end data observability solution.
Anthropic announced the next-generation Claude 3 model family. Opus, its most capable model, achieves state-of-the-art scores in many popular benchmarks, and Sonnet, the most balanced model, offers improvements in speed and performance compared to its predecessors.
Adobe announces AI music generation tool; Elon Musk sues Open AI citing a "breach of contract"; Stack Overflow launches its API partnering with Google; Figure AI raised $675M agrees to collaborate with OpenAI; GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now available; Hugging Face and NVIDIA released StarCoder 2
Google recently announced the availability of a state-of-the-art open-source model family named Gemma. The Gemma models share technical features with Gemini and achieve a groundbreaking performance surpassing many similar models.
Stability AI recently announced the early preview of Stable Diffusion 3, a text-to-image generation model family ranging from 800M to 8B parameters based on a diffusion transformer architecture with flow matching. SD3 stands out for its remarkable text generation capabilities.