Mistral AI is planning to become a leader in the open generative AI community. It has ambitious plans to bridge the gap between proprietary and open-source AI solutions by releasing fully open-source models with a performance comparable to proprietary ones.
Segmind, a platform specializing in open-source serverless APIs for generative models, announced the release of its distillation of SDXL 1.0. SSD-1B is half the size and 60% faster than its base model. It can be fine-tuned to custom specifications and called using Segmind's serverless API.
Yasa-1 is Reka's AI-powered multimodal assistant featuring visual and auditory sensors that enable it to understand video and audio input, setting it apart from text-only assistants.