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Google introduced Gemma, a state-of-the-art open-source model family
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.
Mar 1, 2024
Stable Diffusion 3 is now available via an early preview waitlist
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.
Feb 29, 2024
Reddit announces Google partnership and a Directed Share Program
Google and Reddit have finally issued official statements regarding the agreement that gives Google access to Reddit's Data API. The deal was announced just as Reddit filed its IPO. Reddit also launched a Direct Share Program so a select number of users can own a piece of the company.
Feb 28, 2024
Flower Labs has raised $20M to bring federated and decentralized AI to mainstream
Flower Labs recently completed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Felicis to continue its work in developing federated and decentralized AI solutions. The company plans to use the funding to build a platform that goes together with its open-source framework.
Feb 27, 2024
The open-source multilingual LLM Aya supports over 100 languages
Cohere for AI's Aya Project is working towards closing the gap of language representation in AI by providing coverage to unserved and underrepresented languages. The Aya model and its dataset are available under a fully permissive Apache 2.0 license.
Feb 26, 2024
This week in AI: February 18-24
Bioptimus is building the world's first universal AI foundation model for biology; Google halted Gemini's people-generation capabilities, launched Chrome AI-powered experimental features, and Gemini for Workspace plans; Dating app company Match Group announced OpenAI partnership
Feb 25, 2024
YOLOv9 promises to be the new state-of-the-art real-time object detector
YOLOv9 is a real-time object detector with performance competitive enough to become the newest state-of-the-art method. YOLOv9 features two improvements: Programmable Gradient Information (PGI) and Generalized Efficient Layer Aggregation Network (GELAN)
Feb 23, 2024
Google has announced the next-generation Gemini 1.5 as it expands access to Gemini 1.0 via Vertex AI
Google expanded the availability of the Gemini 1.0 models on Vertex AI, making 1.0 Pro generally available and 1.0 Ultra available via allowlist. Google also announced the private preview of the next-gen Gemini 1.5 model based on its Transformer and Mixture-of-Experts architecture.
Feb 21, 2024
Langchain announces Series A and the general availability of LangSmith
Langchain recently announced its successful $25 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Langchain also announced the general availability launch of LangSmith, its platform supporting LLM application prototyping, beta testing, and production.
Feb 20, 2024
OpenAI becomes the center of attention with the Sora early announcement
OpenAI has spurred a frenzy of reactions after sharing its research advances on Sora, a SOTA diffusion model for video generation that can generate up to 60 seconds of realistic or animated video. Sora is currently available to red teams and invited creatives only.
Feb 19, 2024
This Week in AI: February 11-17
Otter introduces Meeting GenAI, a collection of AI-powered tools for meetings; Anthropic is testing the Prompt Shield technology for US-based users to prevent election misinformation; Slack announced the the launch of Slack AI; Chat with RTX allows select AI PC owners to customize their own chatbot
Feb 18, 2024
The UAE's TII launches the Falcon Foundation to support the open-source generative AI ecosystem
The UAE's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is committing $300 million to launch the Falcon Foundation, a non-profit bringing together essential actors in AI to support and develop open-source projects, especially those based on the TII's Falcon models.
Feb 16, 2024