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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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NIO beats Wall Street's expectations in Q2 earnings and reports record-high EV deliveries

September 9, 2024
NIO has shared its unaudited Q2 financial results for 2024, which detailed record-high EV deliveries that helped the automaker snag an even larger portion of the overall market in China. NIO also surpassed the expectations of financial gurus on Wall Street with its quarterly earnings. Time and again, NIO ($NIO) continues to demonstrate why it is one of the significant BEV players in China and the…
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Rivian is rolling out a software update to R1 owners new and old, including a new 'Launch Mode'

September 5, 2024
Rivian has just started rolling out a robust software update that improves several features in both generations of its flagship R1S and R1T BEVs. Updates vary by model, but there are some pretty extensive improvements to the Rivian ownership experience, including the opportunity to show off that tri-motor acceleration with a new “Launch Mode” feature. It’s been a few years since relatively…
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Luma AI debuts Dream Machine 1.6 video generator with camera motions

September 5, 2024
AI video generators are multiplying in number and increasing in realism, but one big roadblock preventing them from replacing traditionally filmed video is a lack of fine-grained control. Many leading AI generators allow users to enter text prompts and/or upload still images that the underlying models convert into motion, but the resulting video clips are often a surprise and may feature…
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