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Latest story• Oct 12, 2024

INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model

Prime Intellect is launching INTELLECT-1, a decentralized training of a 10-billion-parameter AI model. This open-source project invites contributors to provide computing power for transparent AI. Using the Prime framework, it enables fault-tolerant training across distributed data centers. Features include elastic device management and optimized communication. Based on the Llama-3 architecture, the model will train...

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AI in Pharma Shows Promise With Faster Development, Lower Costs

AI is revolutionizing pharmaceutical research, potentially reducing drug development timelines and costs. The U.S. National Science Foundation's $75 million investment in five biofoundries, including the AI-driven RNA Foundry,...

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mlflow/mlflow: Open source platform for the machine learning lifecycle

MLflow streamlines machine learning development with tools for tracking experiments, packaging code, and deploying models, offering a centralized registry and support for various ML libraries and platforms.

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Deepfakes Can Fool Facial Recognition on Crypto Exchanges

AI-generated deepfakes are being used to bypass facial recognition systems and create fake identities for cryptocurrency fraud. An attacker known as ProKYC sells tools on the dark web that can forge government IDs and spoof live...

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Chain of Thought Prompting for LLMs

LLMs like ChatGPT are shaking up education, but they're not great at math—until you use chain-of-thought reasoning, which breaks problems into steps and boosts performance, especially in bigger models, potentially revolutionizing...

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Research less, shop more: How Amazon's AI Shopping Guides help you find what you need

Amazon is introducing AI-powered "Shopping Guides" on its mobile website and apps to streamline product research and recommendations. Covering over 100 product types, these guides aim to reduce research time and aid...

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LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Recent Apple research challenges the notion that large language models (LLMs) can perform formal reasoning, finding no evidence of such ability. The study suggests LLMs rely on sophisticated pattern matching, with performance...

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Hugging Face Upgrades Open LLM Leaderboard v2 for Enhanced AI Model Comparison

Hugging Face has released Open LLM Leaderboard v2, an upgraded version of their benchmarking platform for large language models. The leaderboard helps identify top open-source models, allows teams to evaluate their work, and...

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Google Gemini’s new AI image generator just rolled out to everyone for free – with one annoying limitation

Gemini users can now access Google's Imagen 3 AI image generator for free, creating high-quality images from text prompts on mobile and desktop, but people-focused images require a $19.99 monthly Gemini Advanced subscription.

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A 12GB Nvidia RTX 5070 could debut next January alongside the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090

Nvidia's CES 2025 lineup includes the RTX 5090 with 32GB GDDR7 and 21,760 CUDA cores, alongside the 5080 and 5070, though the latter's 12GB VRAM might underwhelm fans expecting an upgrade from the previous model.

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Using ChatGPT to make fake social media posts backfires on bad actors

OpenAI reports their tools like ChatGPT are mainly used for shortcuts in spam and disinformation campaigns, not major cybersecurity breakthroughs. While AI-powered operations can be more easily disrupted, OpenAI emphasizes the...

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OSI Finalizes a ‘Humble’ First Definition of Open Source AI

The Open Source Initiative has released a draft definition for open source AI, requiring transparency in data, code, and model parameters. The definition categorizes data into four types (open, public, obtainable, unshareable)...

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Atlassian’s New AI Product Gives Developers Access to Agents

Atlassian launched Rovo, a generative AI product with pre-configured and customizable AI agents for enterprise use. Rovo features IDE extensions, enterprise-wide search, and a chatbot, with plans to introduce Auto Dev and Auto...

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80% Of Workers Aren’t Ready For AI, Says Half Of Surveyed Execs

While AI spending is set to skyrocket, reaching $630 billion by 2028, most workers are playing catch-up, with only 20% able to build AI and less than a quarter capable of using AI solutions without help.

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AI Firms Raise Total of $12 Billion in Third Quarter

Artificial intelligence startups continue to attract substantial venture capital, raising a record $53 billion year-to-date despite market volatility. In Q3 2024, AI firms secured $11.8 billion, 30% of global VC investments....

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FLUX is fast and it's open source

FLUX image generation models on Replicate have been significantly optimized, with end-to-end speeds as fast as 0.29 seconds for 512x512 images. The improvements include model optimization using torch.compile and fast CuDNN...

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Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts

AI-mediated relationship breakups are emerging as technology evolves. From texting breakups being considered rude in the 2000s to becoming commonplace today, social norms around using technology for difficult conversations have...

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Is AI Right for Your Business? 4 Questions to Ask

AI adoption requires careful consideration of business needs and potential benefits. Key questions to evaluate include whether AI can replace repetitive tasks, handle complex data processing, solve problems faster than humans,...

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Google Photos To Help Users Identify AI-Created Images

Google Photos is experimenting with metadata tags to spot AI-generated images, potentially flagging them based on "ai info," "credit," and "digital source type" info, though this method won't catch all AI-manipulated photos.

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exo-explore/exo – Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices ️⌚

exo is an experimental software project that allows users to run AI models across multiple everyday devices, creating a distributed GPU cluster at home. It supports various models like LLaMA, Mistral, and LlaVA, and can...

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Attacks on GenAI Models Can Take Seconds, Often Succeed: Report

Generative AI's rapid adoption outpaces security measures, with hackers cracking systems in 42 seconds on average and 90% of successful jailbreaks causing data leaks, underscoring the urgent need for advanced, real-time...

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Building a Chat with PDF using Pinata,OpenAI and Streamlit

Learn to create a Streamlit-powered chat interface that lets users upload PDFs, store them on Pinata, and interact with the content using OpenAI's API, covering everything from setup to implementation in a step-by-step guide.

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How AI Agents Are About To Change Your Digital Life

AI agents use vector databases like Milvus to store and retrieve high-dimensional data, enabling long-term memory and improved decision-making. This allows agents to maintain context, provide personalized responses, and adapt...

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AI may not need nuclear power feeding, new algorithm slashes energy use by 95%

A new algorithm called L-Mul could slash AI energy use by up to 95% by simplifying complex calculations. Developed by BitEnergy AI, L-Mul replaces energy-intensive floating-point multiplications with simpler integer additions,...

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