Open Source

Microsoft Open Source Research

Microsoft Releases New Orca 2 Small Language Model with Enhanced Reasoning Capabilities

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Chris McKay• November 20, 2023 • 2 min read

Comprehensive benchmarks show Orca 2 significantly outperforming other models of equivalent size on metrics related to language understanding, common sense reasoning, multi-step math problems, reading comprehension, summarization, and more.

Open Source AI Tech

Data Provenance Explorer Brings Transparency to AI Data Licensing & Attribution

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Chris McKay• October 26, 2023 • 2 min read

The interactive platform is designed to offer developers, scholars, and journalists an in-depth look into the composition, lineage, and licensing intricacies of popular AI datasets.

Google Open Source Mistral

Google Vertex AI Now Supports Mistral AI

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Chris McKay• October 17, 2023 • 2 min read

Mistral-7B, is now natively available in the Vertex AI Notebooks. This integration provides seamless access to test, fine-tune, and deploy Mistral-7B on Google's managed AI service.

Research Open Source Healthcare

M42 Health Unveils Med42 - A Milestone for Open Access in AI for Healthcare

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Chris McKay• October 13, 2023 • 2 min read

The model achieved up to 72% accuracy in a zero-shot evaluation on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), and outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5.

Open Source AI Ethics

Meet the Content Credentials Pin, A New Way to Determine Content Authenticity

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Chris McKay• October 9, 2023 • 2 min read

Content Credentials work by embedding tamper-evident metadata directly into creative assets. This metadata can include details like the creator, creation date, editing steps used, and whether AI generation was involved.

Open Source Mistral

How to Get Started with Mistral 7B

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Chris McKay• September 29, 2023 • 3 min read

The purpose of this article is to help readers easily get up and running with Mistral 7B locally, or in your preferred cloud.

Open Source

Fujitsu Launches Open Source Projects for Automated Machine Learning and AI Fairness

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Chris McKay• September 15, 2023 • 2 min read

These projects aim to offer tools that can automatically generate code for new machine learning models and address latent biases in training data.

Open Source

Adept Releases Persimmon-8B, Most Powerful Open Source AI Model Under 10B Parameters

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Chris McKay• September 7, 2023 • 2 min read

When compared to LLama 2 and MPT 7B Instruct, Persimmon-8B-FT is the strongest performing model on all but one of the metrics.

Open Source Research

Falcon 180B: A New Leader in Open LLMs Emerges

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Chris McKay• September 6, 2023 • 2 min read

It outperforms Llama 2, demonstrates abilities on par with closed models like PaLM 2 Large (despite being just half its size), and ranks just below GPT-4.

Meta Open Source Research

Meta Releases BELEBELE, A Multilingual AI Benchmark Spanning 122 Languages

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Chris McKay• September 4, 2023 • 2 min read

BELEBELE represents the largest parallel multilingual benchmark ever created specifically for reading comprehension.

Open Source

G42's Inception Unveils Jais, A Cutting-Edge Arabic Language Model

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Chris McKay• August 30, 2023 • 2 min read

Jais achieves the world's best performance for an open Arabic LLM while matching performance in English LLMs, despite having been trained on significantly less data.

Open Source

How To Get Started With Code Llama

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Chris McKay• August 26, 2023 • 4 min read

The purpose of this article is to help readers easily get up and running with Code Llama. We'll cover the main ways to access Code Llama's capabilities both locally or via hosted services.

Alibaba Open Source China

Alibaba Releases New Generative AI Capable of Complex Image Understanding and Dialog

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Chris McKay• August 25, 2023 • 2 min read

The new models represent a significant step forward for multimodal AI that can process both visual and textual data in English and Chinese.

Open Source Research

Allen Institute Unveils Dolma, Largest Open Training Dataset for Large Language Models

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Chris McKay• August 19, 2023 • 2 min read

Dolma is significantly larger than other open datasets and is released under AI2’s impact license, which was designed to balance ease of access with mitigation of potential risk in distributing large datasets.

Stability AI Open Source

Stability AI Launches Stable Chat Website Research Preview

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Chris McKay• August 11, 2023 • 1 min read

The new website provides an opportunity for the open source AI community to directly evaluate and assist in strengthening these state-of-the-art models.

Stability AI Open Source

Stability AI Releases Japanese StableLM, The Most Capable Japanese LLM

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Chris McKay• August 9, 2023 • 2 min read

The new 7 billion parameter general-purpose language model aims to provide Japanese users with enhanced AI capabilities for text generation.

Alibaba Open Source

Alibaba Open Sources Qwen, a 7B Parameter AI Model

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Chris McKay• August 3, 2023 • 2 min read

Qwen achieves state-of-the-art results compared to LLaMA and other leading models on tests of knowledge, coding, mathematical reasoning and translation capabilities.

Open Source

NASA and IBM Open Source the Largest Geospatial AI Model to Democratize Climate Insights

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Chris McKay• August 3, 2023 • 2 min read

IBM and NASA are releasing the most extensive geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face. This initiative not only enhances access to NASA's satellite data but also propels the pace of climate-related discoveries.

Stability AI Open Source

Stability AI's New FreeWilly Models are The Best Open Access LLMs Available Today

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Chris McKay• July 21, 2023 • 2 min read

Using innovative synthetic data generation techniques, Stability AI researchers trained both models to reach state-of-the-art performance on reasoning and language tasks.

Meta Open Source

Get Hands-On With Meta's New Llama 2 Chat

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Chris McKay• July 18, 2023 • 2 min read

With the release of LLaMA 2, Meta presents developers worldwide with unprecedented access to a state-of-the-art foundational AI model - opening new frontiers for exploration and innovation.

China Open Source

China's Baichuan Intelligent Technology Unveils Open-Source 13B Parameter Large Language Model

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Chris McKay• July 11, 2023 • 2 min read

The model has set a new benchmark, outstripping Meta's LLaMa-13B by a substantial 40% in training data volume.

Hugging Face Open Source

Meet HuggingChat, The Latest Open-Source Alternative to ChatGPT

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Chris McKay• April 25, 2023 • 2 min read

Hugging Face unveils HuggingChat, an ambitious open-source project offering a transparent, inclusive, and accountable alternative to ChatGPT.