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Snowflake's New Arctic AI Outperforms Meta's Llama 3 with Half the Training

8 months ago

Snowflake has launched an open-source AI model, Arctic, surpassing Meta's Llama 3 in efficiency at enterprise tasks like SQL coding. Arctic matches or exceeds Llama 3 8B and Llama 2 70B on enterprise metrics, using less than half the training compute budget. The model and its code are released under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. Arctic is now available on Snowflake's Cortex offering and soon on Amazon AWS, Hugging Face, and other platforms.

GPT-4 Turbo Regains 'Best AI Model' from Anthropic's Claude 3

9 months ago

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OpenAI's updated GPT-4 Turbo, gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09, is now available to developers and paid ChatGPT subscribers. It has reclaimed its top position on the Large Model Systems Organization's Chatbot Arena, leading in overall, coding, and English categories. This has pushed Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus to second place. Users can compare different models on the Chatbot Arena website. To use the updated GPT-4 Turbo in ChatGPT, a subscription to ChatGPT Plus is necessary.

Despite DALL-E military pitch, OpenAI maintains its tools won't be used to develop weapons

9 months ago

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Microsoft Azure pitched its version of OpenAI's DALL-E to the US military under the Azure OpenAI partnership. The proposal, aimed at training battlefield tools, stirred confusion due to OpenAI's previous policy against military use. OpenAI clarified the policy change allows certain military uses like defense and cybersecurity. Microsoft confirmed the pitch hasn't been implemented, and OpenAI denied involvement in the presentation.

DuckDuckGo's Privacy Pro bundles a VPN with personal data removal and identity theft restoration

9 months ago

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DuckDuckGo's new Privacy Pro offers an anonymous VPN, a personal info removal service, and an identity theft restoration service. These services, which don't require user data, are not mobile-compatible yet. The VPN doesn't log activity, and removal requests are initiated from the user's device. Payments are processed by Stripe, Google Play, or Apple App Store. Privacy Pro costs $9.99/month or $99.99/year, currently only for US customers.

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Meta plans to tease Llama 3 next week before a broader summer 2024 launch

9 months ago

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Meta plans to preview basic versions of its Llama 3 large language model (LLM) next week. The full multimodal Llama 3 model is set to launch this summer. Llama 3 is Meta's response to LLMs like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini. Despite Llama 2's success, Meta trails behind competitors. The company's heavy investment in AI and acquisition of numerous Nvidia H100 GPUs show its determination to compete in the AI market.

OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision available to developers to unlock new AI apps

9 months ago

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OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is now generally available via its API. It offers speed improvements and larger input context windows. The model can analyze images and apply reasoning in one API call, simplifying developers' workflow. Vision capabilities can be accessed through JSON and function calling. Despite lower benchmarks, this move should increase OpenAI's models' appeal.