French AI startup Mistral AI again looking for investors
French AI startup Mistral appears to have an unquenchable appetite for investor capital. The company is reportedly looking for hundreds of millions of euros, based on an assumed market valuation of over 4.6 billion euros.
The company sees such a valuation as feasible, partly because of the perf... Read more
Google hints at breakthrough for LLMs with Infini-attention
Google researchers claim they've cracked the code to give large language models (LLMs) the literary equivalent of an endless appetite. Their latest paper unveils 'Infini-attention,' a technique that supposedly lets models munch on input of infinite length without getting indigestion from memory ove... Read more
xAI shows preview of new multimodal LLM Grokv 1.5
xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, recently previewed its new multimodal LLM Grok Vision (Grokv) 1.5. This LLM is more powerful than the original recently launched Grok-1.5 LLM and should compete with equivalent LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
The preview of Grokv 1.5 presented by... Read more
ChatGPT provides shorter answers after upgrade
Paying users of ChatGPT can now use a new version of GPT-4 Turbo. In addition to more accurate answers than before, the chatbot will waste fewer words on simple answers.
The new model (gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09) also has a more recent dataset than its predecessors. OpenAI has provided this LLM with... Read more
OpenAI trained GPT-4 on millions of hours of YouTube audio
OpenAI trained GPT-4 on one million hours of audio from YouTube videos. The AI giant did not ask Google's permission to do so. However, the latter did not object because the company itself uses YouTube to train its own LLMs.
In 2021, OpenAI lacked reliable English-language data available online ... Read more
OpenAI makes fine-tuning of its LLMs easier and cheaper
OpenAI has introduced tools that allow developers to fine-tune AI models more efficiently than before. On top of previous options through the fine-tuning API, the company now offers more ease of use as well. These tools should reduce the common problem of a high error rate during fine-tuning proces... Read more
LLMs from Hugging Face now deployable and distributable directly via Cloudflare
Cloudflare now allows developers to directly deploy AI applications from Hugging Face on their own platform. Using the Cloudflare Workers AI application, they can further distribute these applications wherever they wish.
Cloudflare and Hugging Face announced their collaboration last year, but th... Read more
Popularity of Python continues to rise against backdrop of AI race
Python is more popular than ever, as shown in March's TIOBE Index. Although it has held the top spot in this ranking of most-used programming languages for years, its lead over the number two (C) has never been more significant. What explains Python's growth spurt?
After years of Python going ne... Read more
Microsoft makes Copilot GPT Builder available: personalize chatbots
Microsoft is launching the Copilot GPT Builder. The feature requires no programming knowledge and lets users personalize a chatbot.
Microsoft's Copilot GPT Builder should allow anyone in an enterprise to build their own AI assistant. In fact, the feature works with instructions in written text.... Read more
Salesforce Einstein 1 Studio allows organizations to easily apply genAI
Salesforce is one of the first to launch an enterprise AI solution, and it sets the bar extremely high. Every Salesforce application now has Einstein Copilot, which organisations can fully customize with Einstein 1 Studio. Salesforce makes AI available within all Salesforce applications through no-... Read more