Open Source

Meta Open Source

Meta Unveils SAM 2: A Unified Model for Real-Time Object Segmentation in Images and Videos

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Chris McKay• July 29, 2024 • 2 min read

The model’s ability to handle zero-shot generalization allows it to segment objects in unseen visual domains without custom adaptation. Additionally, the SA-V dataset’s extensive annotations can aid in training more robust computer vision systems.

Meta Open Source

Meta Releases Llama 3.1 with 405B Parameter Model

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Chris McKay• July 23, 2024 • 3 min read

The new models boast impressive capabilities that rival—and in some benchmarks, surpass—leading proprietary models from industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Meta Open Source

Meta Releases New AI Models and Datasets for Open Research

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Chris McKay• June 18, 2024 • 2 min read

The models include Meta Chameleon, Meta Multi-Token Prediction, Meta JASCO, and Meta AudioSeal, each with unique capabilities and contributions to the field.

NVIDIA Open Source

NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron-4 340B Model Family

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Chris McKay• June 15, 2024 • 2 min read

Over 98% of thedata used to train the Nemotron-4 340B instruct model was synthetically generated using the base model and reward model.

Cohere Open Source

Aya 23 is a New State-of-the-Art, Multilingual, Open Weights Model from Cohere

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Chris McKay• May 23, 2024 • 2 min read

Aya 23 is a research open weights release of an 8 and 35 billion parameter with highly advanced instruction fine-tuned model, covering 23 languages.

IBM Open Source

Red Hat and IBM Want to Change Open Source AI Development

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Chris McKay• May 8, 2024 • 2 min read

Open Source AI is Broken. While open source in software fosters collaborative improvement, continuous refinement, and collective ownership, this isn't effectively happening with AI.

Snowflake Open Source

Snowflake Launches Arctic: An Open-Source Enterprise-Grade LLM

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Chris McKay• April 24, 2024 • 2 min read

Snowflake has fully embraced open-source principles with Arctic, releasing it under an Apache 2.0 license and making the model weights and code also available.

Open Source

Linux Foundation Launches Open Platform for Enterprise AI

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Chris McKay• April 16, 2024 • 2 min read

This initiative aims to create "hardened," scalable AI systems that leverage open source innovations across a wide spectrum.

AI21 Open Source

AI21 Labs Unveils Jamba: The First Production-Grade Mamba-Based AI Model

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Chris McKay• March 28, 2024 • 2 min read

Jamba is a groundbreaking SSM-Transformer model that offers the best of both worlds, addressing the drawbacks of traditional Transformer architectures while maintaining their powerful capabilities.

Databricks Open Source

Databricks Open Sources DBRX: A Powerful New Language Model for Enterprises

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Chris McKay• March 27, 2024 • 2 min read

The weights of the base model (DBRX Base) and the finetuned model (DBRX Instruct) are available on Hugging Face under an open license.

Open Source Mistral

Mistral Announces Le Chat and Mistral Large

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Chris McKay• February 26, 2024 • 3 min read

Mistral Large achieves strong performance on tests of reasoning, knowledge, coding, math and cross-lingual understanding and is second only to OpenAI's GPT-4

Google Open Source

Google Unveils Gemma, A New Family of State-of-the-Art Open Models

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Chris McKay• February 21, 2024 • 2 min read

Gemma achieved state-of-the-art results across several key benchmarks, outscoring popular open models like Llama-2 and Mistral.

Meta Open Source Research

Meta is Teaching AI to Understand and Model the Real World by Watching Videos

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Chris McKay• February 15, 2024 • 2 min read

Yann LeCun says this approach could lead to more flexible reasoning, planning, and general intelligence.

Cohere Open Source Research

Cohere For AI Opensources Aya, a 101-Language AI Model

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Richard Banfield• February 13, 2024 • 2 min read

Aya is an open science project that aims to build a multilingual language model via instruction tuning that harnesses the collective wisdom and contributions of people from all over the world.

AI2 Open Source

AI2 Unveils OLMo, the "First Truly Open" Large Language Model

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Chris McKay• February 1, 2024 • 2 min read

AI2 is not only providing the model weights, but also the training code, actual training data, and an array of associated toolkits, including evaluation tools.

Meta Open Source

How To Get Started With CodeLlama-70B

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Chris McKay• January 29, 2024 • 2 min read

CodeLlama-70B-Instruct achieves 67.8 on HumanEval, making it one of the highest performing open models available today.

Stability AI Open Source

Stability AI Unveils 1.6B Parameter Stable LM 2 Model

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Chris McKay• January 19, 2024 • 2 min read

Benchmark results show Stable LM 2 1.6B achieving state-of-the-art results for a model under 2 billion parameters.

Open Source

OpenVoice is an Open-Source, Instant Voice Cloning AI

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Chris McKay• January 2, 2024 • 3 min read

The technology stands out for its ability to instantly clone voices with remarkable precision and control.

Mistral Open Source

Mistral Unveils Mixtral 8x7B: A Leading Open SMoE Model

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Chris McKay• December 11, 2023 • 2 min read

Leveraging the mixture of experts design allows scaling model capacity and performance substantially while controlling memory and compute costs, since any single token does not end up using all weights.

IBM Open Source Quantum Computing

Qiskit, IBM's open-source toolkit for Quantum Computing

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Chris McKay• December 4, 2023 • 2 min read

The fusion of Watsonx's AI expertise and IBM's quantum computing prowess creates a robust platform for innovation, pushing the boundaries of what's achievable in quantum computing.

DeepSeek China Open Source

Chinese Startup DeepSeek Unveils Impressive New Open Source AI Models

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Chris McKay• December 2, 2023 • 3 min read

DeepSeek LLM's 67B Base version has demonstrated superior performance compared to the Llama2 70B Base, particularly in areas like reasoning, coding, math, and Chinese comprehension.

Open Source

OpenAI Delays Launch of GPT Store to Early 2024

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Chris McKay• December 1, 2023 • 2 min read

Nonetheless, the company says the GPT Store remains firmly on its roadmap. It also hinted at impending upgrades for ChatGPT itself in the near future.

Alibaba Open Source

Alibaba Unveils Three New Open-Source AI Models to Advance Research

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Chris McKay• November 30, 2023 • 3 min read

Qwen-72B was trained on an unprecedented 3 trillion tokens of multi-lingual datasets encompassing text, code, and mathematical content in both English and Chinese.

Google Open Source

Google Open-Sources Project Guideline to Enable Visually Impaired Navigation

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Chris McKay• November 21, 2023 • 1 min read

The company is taking a major step towards improving mobility for the visually impaired by open-sourcing Project Guideline, its computer vision navigation system.