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.
In this event, AI Makerspace breaks down the steps of ReFT, which consists of the warm-up stage and the reinforcement learning state. They will demonstrate how to code the core aspects of ReFT yourself in a Google Colab notebook environment, and all code will be provided directly to attendees!
DBSnapper allows teams to safely use production data in development and AI modeling. Now with database subsetting for smaller, relationally complete snapshots.
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.
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.
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.