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Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free

November 13, 2024

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2.5-Coder, a new AI coding assistant that has already become the second most popular demo on Hugging Face Spaces. Early tests suggest its performance rivals GPT-4o, and it’s available to developers at no cost. The release includes six model variants, from 0.5 billion to 32 billion parameters, making advanced AI coding accessible to developers with different…

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How Writer has built an enterprise platform Blueprint that does the AI for you

November 13, 2024

Agentic AI continues to grow as enterprises explore its potential. However, there can be pitfalls when building an AI agent workflow. May Habib, co-founder and CEO of full-stack AI platform Writer, said there are four things enterprises should consider when thinking about…

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AI’s math problem: FrontierMath benchmark shows how far technology still has to go

November 12, 2024

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall. A groundbreaking new benchmark, FrontierMath, is exposing just how far…

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ByteDance’s AI can make your photos act out movie scenes — but is it too real?

November 12, 2024

ByteDance has unveiled an artificial intelligence system that can transform any photograph into a convincing video performance, complete with subtle expressions and emotional depth that rival real footage. The Chinese technology giant, known for TikTok, designed its “X-Portrait 2” system to make still images mirror scenes from famous movies — with results so realistic they blur the line…

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AIRIS is a learning AI teaching itself how to play Minecraft

November 12, 2024

A new learning AI has been left to its own devices within an instance of Minecraft as the artificial intelligence learns how to play the game through doing, says AI development company SingularityNET and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI Alliance). The AI, named…

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Here are 3 critical LLM compression strategies to supercharge AI performance

November 12, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses relying on AI face new challenges: latency, memory usage and compute power costs to run an AI model. As AI advances rapidly, the models powering these innovations have grown increasingly complex and resource-intensive.

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How Connecty’s AI context mapping could end enterprise data pipeline chaos

November 12, 2024

Enterprise data stacks are notoriously diverse, chaotic and fragmented. With data flowing from multiple sources into complex, multi-cloud platforms and then distributed across varied AI, BI and chatbot applications, managing these ecosystems has become a formidable and time-consuming challenge. Today, Connecty AI, a startup based in San Francisco, emerged from stealth mode with $1.8 million to…

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Meet the startup that just won the Pentagon’s first AI defense contract

November 8, 2024

The Department of Defense has awarded its first generative AI defense contract to Jericho Security, marking a strategic shift in military cybersecurity. The $1.8 million Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract, announced through AFWERX, tasks the New…

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Knowledge workers are leaning on generative AI as their workloads mount

November 8, 2024

Americans are struggling at work, according to a new report from Wrike. It found that workers are saying their workloads in America have grown by 31% in the last year. Leaders put the figure even higher, saying workloads in America have increased by 46% for their department…

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Nvidia advances robot learning and humanoid development with AI and simulation tools

November 8, 2024

Nvidia revealed new AI and simulation tools that will advance robot learning and humanoid development. The world’s biggest tech company by valuation (worth $3.432 trillion) said that the tools will enable robotics developers to greatly accelerate their work on AI-enabled robots, with tools revealed this week at the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) in Munich, Germany. The lineup includes the…