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What OpenAI’s wave of releases says about 2024 | The AI Beat

November 7, 2023
OpenAI’s latest release announcements during the company’s first developer conference, Dev Day — custom GPTs! New GPT-4 Turbo! Assistants API! — crashed over Silicon Valley and the world today like a massive wave of hype and excitement that threatened to sweep us all away with the current. Of course, observers of all things AI, like me, were already soaked to the skin, exhausted by last…
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Chinese AI unicorn’s 34B LLM outperforms larger Llama 2 and Falcon models

November 7, 2023
01.AI, the Chinese startup founded by veteran AI expert and investor Kai-Fu Lee, has released a 34-billion parameter large language model (LLM) that outperforms the 70-billion Llama 2 and 180 billion Falcon open-source counterparts built by Meta Platforms, Inc., and the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, respectively. Dubbed Yi-34B, the new AI model supports Chinese and English…
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Global leaders scramble to regulate the future of AI

November 6, 2023
There is no doubt that the pace of AI development has accelerated over the last year. Due to rapid advances in technology, the idea that AI could one day be smarter than people has moved from science fiction to plausible near-term reality. Geoffrey Hinton, a Turing Award…
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Alleged OpenAI DevDay leak suggests connections to cloud drives, custom chatbot builder

November 6, 2023
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI‘s first-ever developer conference, DevDay, is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Monday, November 6, and the company’s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has already hyped on X that there will be “some great stuff to show developers!” But apparent leaks on X and around the web may have already spoiled the surprise. on november 6, we’ll have some great stuff to show developers!
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Do we have enough GPUs to manifest AI’s potential?

November 5, 2023
In 2023, few technologies have garnered as much attention, speculation and promise as AI. We are undoubtedly in the midst of an unprecedented AI hype cycle.  In some ways, the moment is akin to a modern-day gold rush as innovators, investors and entrepreneurs clamor to…
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Forget ChatGPT, why Llama and open source AI win 2023

November 5, 2023
Could a furry camelid take the 2023 crown for the biggest AI story of the year? If we’re talking about Llama, Meta’s large language model that took the AI research world by storm in February — followed by the commercial Llama 2 in July and Code Llama in August — I…
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Runway’s Gen-2 update is blowing people’s minds with incredible AI video

November 5, 2023
Runway, the well-funded New York City-based generative AI video startup, updated its signature text/image/video-to-video model Gen-2 today, and many of its users are collectively freaking out over how good it is. Numerous AI filmmakers have called it “game changing,” and some a “pivotal moment in generative AI.“ Specifically, Gen-2 has undergone “major improvements to both the fidelity…
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