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Oumi: The Open-Source AI for the Success of DeepSeek-R1

January 31, 2025
If it wasn’t clear before, it’s definitely very clear now: Open source really does matter for AI. The success of DeepSeek-R1 has substantively proven there is a need and demand for open-source AI. But what exactly is open-source AI? For Meta and its Llama models, it means free access to use the model, with some conditions. DeepSeek is available under a permissive open-source license…
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Understanding U.S. Copyright Office and AI Generated Content

January 30, 2025
In an important and helpful update issued today, the U.S. Copyright Office — which administers copyright protections from the government to human-authored works such as films, TV shows, novels, art, music, even software — clarified that some forms of AI-generated content can, in fact, receive copyright protection, provided that a human substantially contributed or changed the content in…
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Block: Jack Dorsey Launches Goose - Open-Source AI Framework

January 29, 2025
The bird-themed social network Twitter’s identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isn’t stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project. Dorsey’s other company Block, the parent of point-of-sale service Square, mobile payments system Cash App, music streaming service Tidal, and other tech-driven financial tools, today…
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No retraining needed: Sakana’s new AI model changes how machines learn

January 28, 2025
Researchers at Sakana AI, an AI research lab focusing on nature-inspired algorithms, have developed a self-adaptive language model that can learn new tasks without the need for fine-tuning. Called Transformer² (Transformer-squared), the model uses mathematical tricks to align its weights with user requests during inference. This is the latest in a series of techniques that aim to improve the…
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