[News] Highlights from Microsoft's Ignite conference
Microsoft's 2023 Ignite conference was packed with announcements heavily focused on AI integration at all levels of the company's offerings. Here, we present a selection of announcements concerning hardware for HPC and AI workloads, data science, and generative AI for sales and cybersecurity teams.
https://dataphoenix.info/highlights-from-microsofts-ignite-conference/

[News] Artisan brings in $2.3M to create digital workers
Artisan, an AI startup focused on creating human-like digital workers known as Artisans, recently announced it raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding. The startup looks to build "out-of-the-box AI digital workers that integrate seamlessly with human teams."
https://dataphoenix.info/artisan-brings-in-2-3m-to-create-digital-workers/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
How to Instruction Tune a Base Language Model, Transforming MLOps at DoorDash with ML Workbench, RAG with LangChain, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and MongoDB Atlas semantic search, LMQL — SQL for Language Models, Tracking Anything in High Quality, PMC-LLaMA, Text2Performer, and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-18-2023/

[News] Aptus.AI closes successful pre-Series A funding round with 3M EUR
Italian startup Aptus.AI recently announced the conclusion of its pre-Series A round, in which the company raised 3 million euros. Aptus.AI's product is the Daitomic platform, a RegTech platform that generates machine-readable versions of regulation documents.
https://dataphoenix.info/aptus-ai-closes-successful-pre-series-a-funding-round-with-3m-eur/

📢 We are live and starting Data Phoenix webinar "Leveraging open-source LLMs for production" with ​Andrey Cheptsov (CEO & Founder of dstack). Join us: https://youtube.com/live/skeO0vOc6ds

[News] Webinar "How to Instruction Tune a Base Language Model"
Join the Data Phoenix webinar, where Dmytro Spodarets and guest Harpreet Sahota (Developer Relations Manager at Deci) will discuss the nuances of supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and the powerful techniques that bridge the gap between model objectives and user-specific requirements.
https://dataphoenix.info/webinar-how-to-instruction-tune-a-base-language-model/

[News] Together AI announces its $102.5M Series A
Together AI recently raised $102.5 million in a Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins. According to the company's announcement, the capital will be put into accelerating Together AI's goal of "creating the fastest cloud platform for generative AI applications."
https://dataphoenix.info/together-ai-announces-its-102-5m-series-a/

[News] PhysicsX will accelerate the engineering process with its newly raised $32M
PhysicsX is a UK-based startup that focuses on building AI and simulation technologies that address the needs of breakthrough engineering in advanced industries. The company is announcing the closing of its Series A funding round, which raised $32 million.
https://dataphoenix.info/physicsx-just-raised/

[News] Deep learning tool GNoME aids in the discovery of 2.2M new crystals
DeepMind and Google researchers made a groundbreaking discovery of 2.2M new inorganic crystals with the help of GNoME, with 736 of these being experimentally realized. Researchers are also looking into creating an autonomous laboratory to automate and expedite the synthesis of new materials.
https://dataphoenix.info/deep-learning-tool-gnome-aids-in-the-discovery-of-2-2m-new-crystals/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
Evaluating LLM-based Apps and Mitigating Their Risks, Democratizing AI Deployment, Retrieval-Augmented Generation From Theory to LangChain Implementation, Serverless Compute for LLM, Accelerating PyTorch Training Workloads with FP8, Mustango, MEDITRON-70B, DemoFusion, and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-19-2023/

📢 We are live and starting Data Phoenix webinar "How to Instruction Tune a Base Language Model" with Harpreet Sahota (Deep Learning Developer Relations Manager at Deci). Join us: https://youtube.com/live/DuEwDEJyWYo

[News] Webinar "GPT on a Leash: Evaluating LLM-based Apps & Mitigating Their Risks"
Join the Data Phoenix webinar, where Dmytro Spodarets and guest Philip Tannor (Co-founder and CEO of Deepchecks) will discuss evaluating LLM-based applications.
https://dataphoenix.info/webinar-gpt-on-a-leash-evaluating-llm-based-apps-mitigating-their-risks/

📢 We are live and starting Data Phoenix webinar "GPT on a Leash: Evaluating LLM-based Apps & Mitigating Their Risks" with Philip Tannor (Co-founder and CEO of Deepchecks).

Join us: https://youtube.com/live/56BEkrH9azI

[News] Webinar "Democratizing AI Deployment"
Join the Data Phoenix webinar, where Dmytro Spodarets and guest Daniel Lenton (CEO at Unify) will discuss the different kinds of decisions needed when deploying AI models in different contexts.
https://dataphoenix.info/webinar-democratizing-ai-deployment/

📢 We are live and starting Data Phoenix webinar "Democratizing AI Deployment" with Daniel Lenton (CEO at Unify). Join us: https://youtube.com/live/XFtdmIV2bdo

[News] Stability AI announces a three-tier membership system
Stability AI announced today the introduction of its three-tiered membership system that ensures access to generative AI remains open and available to everybody. The Stability AI membership simplifies model deployment and standardizes commercial rights across a diverse pool of customers.
https://dataphoenix.info/stability-ai-announces-a-three-tier-membership-system/

[News] MLflow 2.9.0 is out
The latest MLflow release (2.9.0) introduces several major features and improvements, including the MLflow AI Gateway deprecation and the overhaul of The MLflow tracking docs.
https://dataphoenix.info/mlflow-2-9-0-is-out/

[News] Ukrainian start-up Respeecher secures $1M to develop AI voice cloning responsibly
Respeecher is a start-up that came into the public eye after Disney tasked it with recreating the voice of James Earl Jones for Darth Vader. The company prioritizes its ethical principles to ensure that no bad actors misuse synthetic voices created using its technology.
https://dataphoenix.info/ukrainian-start-up-respeecher-secures-1m-to-develop-ai-voice-cloning-responsibly/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
A Whirlwind Tour of ML Model Serving Strategies, Evaluating RAG Applications with RAGAs, Mastering Customer Segmentation with LLM, Training XGBoost with MLflow Experiments and HyperOpt Tuning, Generative Powers of Ten, ProlificDreamer, PromptBench, PoseGPT, EdgeSAM, Material Palette, and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-20-2023/

[News] EU will make its supercomputing resources available for the European AI community
The European Commission and the EuroHPC JU will demonstrate their commitment to developing a trustworthy global AI ecosystem with the launch of the Large AI Grand Challenge, expanded access to its supercomputing resources, and creation of support centers for optimal usage of the supercomputers.
https://dataphoenix.info/eu-will-make-its-supercomputing-resources-available-for-the-european-ai-community/

[News] Microsoft partners with Suno to bring everyone's music ideas to life
Microsoft partnered with Suno, a leader in AI-powered music generation, to bring songwriting capabilities to Microsoft Copilot. Users signed in to the Copilot website using their Microsoft account can generate songs complete with lyrics, instrumentals, and voice with a single sentence.
https://dataphoenix.info/microsoft-partners-with-suno-to-bring-everyones-music-ideas-to-life/