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Coding Assistance Start to Finish: GitHub previews Copilot Workspace for end-to-end software development
GitHub Copilot’s latest features are designed to help manage software development from plan to pull request.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
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Think D̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ Small: Apple releases OpenELM, a family of smaller large language models.
Apple is thinking small — very small — with a new family of open large language models.
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Benchmarks for Industry: Vals AI evaluates large language models on industry-specific tasks.
How well do large language models respond to professional-level queries in various industry domains? A new company aims to find out.
Machine Learning Research
Tuning LLMs for Better RAG: Meta’s RA-DIT boosts language model output by optimizing text retrieval
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models to generate better output by retrieving documents that are relevant to a user’s prompt. Fine-tuning further improves RAG performance.
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Hallucination Creates Security Holes: Researcher exposes risks in AI-generated code
Language models can generate code that erroneously points to software packages, creating vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.
Machine Learning Research
More Factual LLMs: FactTune, a method to fine-tune LLMs for factual accuracy without human feedback
Large language models sometimes generate false statements. New work makes them more likely to produce factual output.
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Microsoft Absorbs Inflection: Microsoft pays Inflection AI $650 Million, hires most of its staff
Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.
Machine Learning Research
Cutting the Cost of Pretrained Models: FrugalGPT, a method to cut AI costs and maintain quality
Research aims to help users select large language models that minimize expenses while maintaining quality.
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Some Models Pose Security Risk: Security flaws exposed in Hugging Face’s repository and security features
Security researchers sounded the alarm about holes in Hugging Face’s platform.
Machine Learning Research
Schooling Language Models in Math: GOAT (Good at Arithmetic Tasks), a method to boost large language models' arithmetic abilities
Large language models are not good at math. Researchers devised a way to make them better. Tiedong Liu and Bryan Kian Hsiang Low at the National University of Singapore proposed a method to fine-tune large language models for arithmetic tasks.
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Google Releases Open Source LLMs: All we know about Google's Gemma-7B and Gemma-2B models
Google asserted its open source bona fides with new models. Google released weights for Gemma-7B, an 8.5 billion-parameter large language model intended to run GPUs, and Gemma-2B, a 2.5 billion-parameter version intended for deployment on CPUs and edge devices.
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Mistral AI Extends Its Portfolio: Mistral enhances AI landscape in Europe with Microsoft partnership and new language models.
European AI champion Mistral AI unveiled new large language models and formed an alliance with Microsoft.