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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.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
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.
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Swiss Army LLM
The combination of language models that are equipped for retrieval augmented generation can retrieve text from a database to improve their output. Further work extends this capability to retrieve information from any application that comes with an API.
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Generated Video Gets Real(er): OpenAI’s Sora, a new player in text-to-video generation
OpenAI’s new video generator raises the bar for detail and realism in generated videos — but the company released few details about how it built the system.
Machine Learning Research
LLMs Can Get Inside Your Head: AI models show promise in understanding human beliefs, research reveals
Most people understand that others’ mental states can differ from their own. For instance, if your friend leaves a smartphone on a table and you privately put it in your pocket, you understand that your friend continues to believe it was on the table.
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GPT-4 Biothreat Risk is Low: Study finds GPT-4 no more risky than online search in aiding bioweapon development.
GPT-4 poses negligible additional risk that a malefactor could build a biological weapon, according to a new study. OpenAI compared the ability of GPT-4 and web search to contribute to the creation of a dangerous virus or bacterium. The large language model was barely more helpful than the web.
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New Leaderboards Rank Safety, More: Hugging Face introduces leaderboards to evaluate model performance and trustworthiness.
Hugging Face introduced four leaderboards to rank the performance and trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs). The open source AI repository now ranks performance on tests of workplace utility, trust and safety, tendency to generate falsehoods, and reasoning.
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High Yields for Small Farms: AI elevates chili farming in India with smarter yields.
Indian farmers used chatbots and computer vision to produce higher yields at lower costs. The state government of Telangana in South India partnered with agricultural aid organization Digital Green to provide AI tools to chili farmers.