A new open-source language model has claimed the throne of the best in the world, according to the latest rankings from Hugging Face, one of the leading platforms for natural language processing (NLP) research and applications.
The model, called “Smaug-72B,” was released publicly today by the startup Abacus AI, which helps enterprises solve difficult problems in the artificial intelligence and machine learning space. Smaug-72B is technically a fine-tuned version of “Qwen-72B,” another powerful language model that was released just a few months ago by Qwen, a team of researchers at Alibaba Group. – Read More
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Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app
Amazon announced today the launch of an AI-powered shopping assistant it’s calling Rufus that’s been trained on the e-commerce giant’s product catalog as well as information from around the web. The company says the new tool will launch to a subset of U.S. customers in beta, starting today, before expanding to more users in the weeks ahead. Customers will be able to chat with Rufus inside Amazon’s mobile app to get help with finding products, performing product comparisons, and getting recommendations on what to buy. – Read More
Meta’s next big thing is open source ‘artificial general intelligence’
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is restructuring its artificial intelligence (AI) research teams to create artificial general intelligence (AGI), a form of AI that can match or surpass human intelligence. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, said the reorganization would help the company “speed up” its research and enhance the metaverse, the virtual world that he envisions as the future of social interaction.
Meta currently has two separate teams working on AI research: the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, which was established in 2013, and a team dedicated to creating generative AI experiences for the users of its apps. Zuckerberg said the company would bring the two teams “closer together” as it plans to expand both groups. – Read More
Building end-to-end security for Messenger
Today, we’re announcing that we’ve begun to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use E2EE by default. Our aim is to ensure that everyone’s personal messages on Messenger can only be accessed by the sender and the intended recipients, and that everyone can be sure the messages they receive are from an authentic sender.
Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption
- Our Messenger end-to-end encryption whitepaper describes the core cryptographic protocol for transmitting messages between clients.
- The Labyrinth encrypted storage protocol whitepaper explains our protocol for end-to-end encrypting stored messaging history between devices on a user’s account.
Microsoft releases Phi-2, a small language model AI that outperforms Llama 2, Mistral 7B
The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn’t slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period.
Just take a look at Microsoft Research, the blue sky division of the software giant, which today announced the release of its Phi-2 small language model (SML), a text-to-text AI program that is “small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device,” according to a post on X. – Read More
Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4
Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade. Now, a year into the AI era brought on by ChatGPT, it’s finally making a big move.
It’s the beginning of a new era of AI at Google, says CEO Sundar Pichai: the Gemini era. Gemini is Google’s latest large language model, which Pichai first teased at the I/O developer conference in June and is now launching to the public. To hear Pichai and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis describe it, it’s a huge leap forward in an AI model that will ultimately affect practically all of Google’s products. “One of the powerful things about this moment,” Pichai says, “is you can work on one underlying technology and make it better and it immediately flows across our products.” — Read More
Introducing Gemini
Microsoft Copilot for Windows 11 Gets GPT-4 Turbo and Dall-E 3
Copilot, the AI assistant baked into Windows 11, is getting some enhancements for more robust text and image generation, Microsoft said in a press release on Tuesday.
GPT-4 Turbo, the latest AI model by OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT, will be coming to Windows 11 in the coming weeks. Along with GPT-4 Turbo, Dall-E 3, a text-to-image generator also made by OpenAI, will be making its way to Microsoft’s operating system. Both of these new models will allow for smarter and more robust text and image generation with fewer errors. — Read More
ChatGPT for chemistry: AI and robots join forces to build new materials
An autonomous system that combines robotics with artificial intelligence (AI) to create entirely new materials has released its first trove of discoveries. The system, known as the A-Lab, devises recipes for materials, including some that might find uses in batteries or solar cells. Then, it carries out the synthesis and analyses the products — all without human intervention. Meanwhile, another AI system has predicted the existence of hundreds of thousands of stable materials, giving the A-Lab plenty of candidates to strive for in future. — Read More
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Oopsies: How OpenAI pulled off Sam Altman’s return? ‘72 intense hours of work,’ reveals interim CEO Shear
The Twitch co-founder was appointed as interim OpenAI CEO on November 20, three days after Altman’s ouster.
Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear, who joined OpenAI as interim CEO following Sam Altman’s ouster, on Wednesday revealed it took ‘72 very intense hours of work’ for the company to pull off Altman’s return, adding that he himself was ‘glad to have been a part of the solution.’ — Read More
OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain
I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize:
- On Friday, then-CEO Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI by the board that governs the non-profit; then-President Greg Brockman was removed from the board and subsequently resigned.
- Over the weekend rumors surged that Altman was negotiating his return, only for OpenAI to hire former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as CEO.
- Finally, late Sunday night, Satya Nadella announced via tweet that Altman and Brockman, “together with colleagues”, would be joining Microsoft.
This is, quite obviously, a phenomenal outcome for Microsoft. The company already has a perpetual license to all OpenAI IP (short of artificial general intelligence), including source code and model weights; the question was whether it would have the talent to exploit that IP if OpenAI suffered the sort of talent drain that was threatened upon Altman and Brockman’s removal. Indeed they will, as a good portion of that talent seems likely to flow to Microsoft; you can make the case that Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0 and zero risk of an antitrust lawsuit. — Read More
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