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AI2’s new model aims to be open and powerful yet cost effective

September 10, 2024
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released a new open-source model that hopes to answer the need for a large language model (LLM) that is both a strong performer and cost-effective. The new model, which it calls OLMoE, leverages a sparse mixture of experts (MoE) architecture. It has 7 billion parameters but uses only 1 billion parameters per input token. It has two versions: OLMoE-1B-7B, which is…
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AI Tools: Crafting harmony or creating dependency?

September 10, 2024
As AI tools become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we face a critical question: Are we harnessing their power to enhance our abilities, or are we slowly outsourcing our minds — or both? As an early adopter of generative AI tools like DALL-E, ChatGPT, Claude…
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Meet the new, most powerful open source AI model in the world: HyperWrite’s Reflection 70B

September 9, 2024
There’s a new king in town: Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of AI writing startup HyperWrite, today unveiled Reflection 70B, a new large language model (LLM) based on Meta’s open source Llama 3.1-70B Instruct that leverages a new error self-correction technique and boasts superior performance on third-party benchmarks. As Shumer announced in a post on the social network X, Reflection-70B now…
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71% of leaders prefer hiring candidates with AI skills over those with the relevant industry experience

September 5, 2024
If you’re not upskilling or upskilled in AI, the 2024 Annual Work Trend Index from Microsoft and LinkedIn makes for grim reading. After surveying 31,000 people in 31 countries, its researchers have discovered a change in employer preferences from seeking AI aptitude over proven track records. Some 71% of executives said they would rather hire applicants with AI expertise over those with actual…
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AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders

September 2, 2024
At the DataGrail Summit 2024 this week, industry leaders delivered a stark warning about the rapidly advancing risks associated with AI. Dave Zhou, CISO of Instacart, and Jason Clinton, CISO of Anthropic, highlighted the urgent need for robust security measures to keep pace with the exponential growth of AI capabilities during a panel titled “Creating the Discipline to Stress Test AI—Now—for…
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