This week in AI – all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
artificial
This week in AI – all the Major AI developments in a nutshell
Mistral introduced a new model Mistral Large. It reaches top-tier reasoning capabilities, is multi-lingual by design, has native function calling capacities and has 32K tokens context window. The pre-trained model has 81.2% accuracy on MMLU. Alongside...
artificial

This week in AI – all the Major AI developments in a nutshell

  1. Mistral introduced a new model Mistral Large. It reaches top-tier reasoning capabilities, is multi-lingual by design, has native function calling capacities and has 32K tokens context window. The pre-trained model has 81.2% accuracy on MMLU. Alongside Mistral Large, Mistral Small, a model optimized for latency and cost has been released. Mistral Small outperforms Mixtral 8x7B and has lower latency. Mistral also launched a ChatGPT like new conversational assistant, le Chat Mistral [Details].
  2. Alibaba Group introduced EMO, an expressive audio-driven portrait-video generation framework. Input a single reference image and the vocal audio, e.g. talking and singing, it can generate vocal avatar videos with expressive facial expressions, and various head poses [Details].
  3. Ideogram introduced Ideogram 1.0, a text-to-image model trained from scratch for state-of-the-art text rendering, photorealism, prompt adherence, and a feature called Magic Prompt to help with prompting. Ideogram 1.0 is now available to all users on ideogram.ai [Details].
  4. Google DeepMind introduced Genie (generative interactive environments), a foundation world model trained exclusively from Internet videos that can generate interactive, playable environments from a single image prompt [Details].
  5. Pika Labs launched Lip Sync feature, powered by audio from Eleven Labs, for its AI generated videos enabling users to make the characters talk with realistic mouth movements [Video].
  6. UC Berkeley introduced Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) to evaluate the function calling capability of different LLMs. Gorilla Open Functions v2, an open-source model that can help users with building AI applications with function calling and interacting with json compatible output has also been released [Details].
  7. Qualcomm launched AI Hub, a curated library of 80+ optimized AI models for superior on-device AI performance across Qualcomm and Snapdragon platforms [Details].
  8. BigCode released StarCoder2, a family of open LLMs for code and comes in 3 different sizes with 3B, 7B and 15B parameters. StarCoder2-15B is trained on over 4 trillion tokens and 600+ programming languages from The Stack v2 dataset [Details].
  9. Researchers released FuseChat-7B-VaRM, which is the fusion of three prominent chat LLMs with diverse architectures and scales, namely NH2-Mixtral-8x7B, NH2-Solar-10.7B, and OpenChat-3.5-7B, surpassing GPT-3.5 (March), Claude-2.1, and approaching Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct [Details].
  10. The Swedish fintech Klarna’s AI assistant handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, some 2.3 million conversations so far, equivalent to the work of 700 people [Details].
  11. Lightricks introduces LTX Studio, an AI-powered film making platform, now open for waitlist sign-ups, aimed at assisting creators in story visualization [Details].
  12. Morph partners with Stability AI to launch Morph Studio, a platform to make films using Stability AI–generated clips [Details].
  13. JFrog's security team found that roughly a 100 models hosted on the Hugging Face platform feature malicious functionality [Details].
  14. Playground released Playground v2.5, an open-source text-to-image generative model, with a focus on enhanced color and contrast, improved generation for multi-aspect ratios, and improved human-centric fine detail [Details].
  15. Together AI and the Arc Institute released Evo, a long-context biological foundation model based on the StripedHyena architecture that generalizes across DNA, RNA, and proteins.. Evo is capable of both prediction tasks and generative design, from molecular to whole genome scale (over 650k tokens in length) [Details].
  16. Adobe previews a new generative AI music generation and editing tool, Project Music GenAI Control, that allows creators to generate music from text prompts, and then have fine-grained control to edit that audio for their precise needs [Details | video].
  17. Microsoft introduces Copilot for Finance, an AI chatbot for finance workers in Excel and Outlook [Details].
  18. The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet sue OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming OpenAI and Microsoft intentionally removed important copyright information from training data [Details].
  19. Huawei spin-off Honor shows off tech to control a car with your eyes and chatbot based on Meta’s AI [Details].
  20. Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI [Details].

Source: AI Brews - you can subscribe the newsletter here. it's free to join, sent only once a week with bite-sized news, learning resources and selected tools. Thanks.

submitted by /u/wyem
[link] [comments]