ChatGPT's coming to existence will go down into the history books as the catalyst for the LLM race that dominated 2023. Fortunately, ChatGPT also ushered in the creation of the open-source ecosystem, which has given us powerful yet compact LLMs and shows no signs of stopping.
Almost two months ago, a team of Apple and Columbia University researchers quietly released an innovative research-only, open-source MLLM called 'Ferret' that excels in visual reference understanding and grounding textual input.
Instock Inc. is a California-based start-up developing automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). The Amazon Industrial Fund investment has brought Instock's total seed funding to $6.2 million, which the company plans to use in making ASRS systems accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Microsoft partnered with Suno, a leader in AI-powered music generation, to bring songwriting capabilities to Microsoft Copilot. Users signed in to the Copilot website using their Microsoft account can generate songs complete with lyrics, instrumentals, and voice with a single sentence.
The European Commission and the EuroHPC JU will demonstrate their commitment to developing a trustworthy global AI ecosystem with the launch of the Large AI Grand Challenge, expanded access to its supercomputing resources, and creation of support centers for optimal usage of the supercomputers.
Converge is OpenAI's highly competitive six-week program for the acceleration of exceptional tech experts working on harnessing the power of AI to "reimagine the world." The application period for Converge 2 runs until Friday, January 26, 2024, at 11:59 PM Pacific.
Respeecher is a start-up that came into the public eye after Disney tasked it with recreating the voice of James Earl Jones for Darth Vader. The company prioritizes its ethical principles to ensure that no bad actors misuse synthetic voices created using its technology.
EU Parliament and Council representatives recently reached a provisional agreement on the AI Act, a legally binding document intended to mitigate risks inherent to AI systems in vulnerable areas such as healthcare, education, and banking.
The latest MLflow release (2.9.0) introduces several major features and improvements, including the MLflow AI Gateway deprecation and the overhaul of The MLflow tracking docs.
Stability AI announced today the introduction of its three-tiered membership system that ensures access to generative AI remains open and available to everybody. The Stability AI membership simplifies model deployment and standardizes commercial rights across a diverse pool of customers.
The Munich-based startup Floy recently closed a 5.4M EUR seed round to enhance the diagnostic capabilities of radiologists with AI. Floy gives technicians a chance to refine their diagnosis without starting over. The startup offers its solution as a pay-per-use service for patients.
Google launched Gemini, its family of natively multimodal models. Gemini's capabilities for sophisticated multimodal reasoning are admirable; from excelling at competitive programming to detecting patterns in image sequences, it seems there is little that Gemini cannot do.