[News] Aligning LLMs: RLAIF
AI Makerspace presents part 2 of the Alignment series, Aligning LLMs: RLAIF!

They will tackle RLAIF, a technique that attempts to solve the fundamental bottleneck of RLHF, namely, that it’s kind of expensive to collect a ton of data directly from humans!
https://dataphoenix.info/aligning-llms-rlaif/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
Latest AI News, Become a Speaker at Data Phoenix Webinars, Getting Started with Diffusers for Text-to-Image, Merge Large Language Models, Building an LLMOPs Pipeline, Dealing with MRI and Deep Learning with Python, Lumiere, Diffutoon, SEELE, and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-3-2024/

[News] "The State of The State of AI Report" compiles half a decade of headlines and predictions for AI
Offering a dive into the five-year archive of 'The State of AI Report' to revisit the most notable headlines and predictions that have appeared in the report, 'The State of The State of AI Report' is a must read for anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with the recent history of AI.
https://dataphoenix.info/unnoscriptd/

[News] AMD's Embedded+ will enable its partners to deliver AI applications faster
AMD recently launched its Embedded+ architectural solution for industrial and medical PCs. AMD Embedded+ combines the power-efficient performance of its Ryzen processors with the acceleration delivered by the Versal AI Edge adaptive SOCs onto a single board via a PCIe connection.
https://dataphoenix.info/amd-launched-embedded/

[News] Synthetaic raised $15M to commercialize its rapid automatic image categorization (RAIC) platform
Synthetaic raised $15 million in a Series B round co-led by Lupa Systems and TitletownTech with participation from IBM Ventures and Booz Allen Hamilton. The company is looking for new market opportunities for its successful RAIC platform.
https://dataphoenix.info/synthenaic/

[News] This week in AI: February 4 - 10
ChatGPT is getting an Apple Vision Pro app; Meta is working on a new standard to label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads; FCC declares AI-generated voices 'artificial', making them illegal to use in automated calls.
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-february-4-10/

[News] Microsoft timed a significant Copilot update to its Super Bowl ad launch
To mark its return to Super Bowl advertising, Microsoft has timed the release of a major Copilot update to the launch of its Super Bowl ad. The commercial features people using Copilot to "attain the unattainable". The update expands Designer in Copilot's image generation and editing capabilities.
https://dataphoenix.info/microsoft-timed-a-significant-copilot-update-to-its-super-bowl-ad-launch/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
Latest AI News, Evaluating LLM Models for Production Systems (Methods and Practices), Generating Images from Audio with ML, Sampling for Text Generation, YOLO-World, InstantID, MoE-LLaVA and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-4-2024/

[News] Google rebrands Bard as Gemini as part of a significant AI update
Google has rebranded Bard as Gemini across all platforms and has also introduced a paid Gemini Advanced service. Powered by Google's most capable model, Gemini Advanced is currently available in English. The company also announced an updated Gemini experience in its Android and iOS apps.
https://dataphoenix.info/google-rebrands-bard-as-gemini-as-part-of-a-significant-ai-update/

[News] ChatGPT will soon be able to remember things
OpenAI is planning to roll out a memory feature for ChatGPT. Users can let the chatbot pick up details, or they can ask ChatGPT to remember something in the conversation. Memory will roll out to a select number of users, with plans to eventually make the feature broadly available.
https://dataphoenix.info/chatgpt-will-soon-be-able-to-remember-things/

[News] The UAE's TII launches the Falcon Foundation to support the open-source generative AI ecosystem
The UAE's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is committing $300 million to launch the Falcon Foundation, a non-profit bringing together essential actors in AI to support and develop open-source projects, especially those based on the TII's Falcon models.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-uaes-tii-launches-the-falcon-foundation-to-support-the-open-source-generative-ai-ecosystem/

[News] This Week in AI: February 11-17
Otter introduces Meeting GenAI, a collection of AI-powered tools for meetings; Anthropic is testing the Prompt Shield technology for US-based users to prevent election misinformation; Slack announced the the launch of Slack AI; Chat with RTX allows select AI PC owners to customize their own chatbot
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-february-11-17/

[News] OpenAI becomes the center of attention with the Sora early announcement
OpenAI has spurred a frenzy of reactions after sharing its research advances on Sora, a SOTA diffusion model for video generation that can generate up to 60 seconds of realistic or animated video. Sora is currently available to red teams and invited creatives only.
https://dataphoenix.info/openai-launched-sora-and-it-instantly-became-a-hot-topic-on-socia/

⚡️ DataPhoenix presented the new issue of the digest!
Latest AI News, Write for Data Phoenix, Milestones in Speaker Recognition, GNN in TensorFlow, Building an Advanced RAG System on Your Computer, Unlocking LLM’s Potential with RAG, Transformers from Scratch, RingAttention, InseRF, MagicVideo-V2, En3D and more.
https://dataphoenix.info/data-phoenix-digest-issue-5-2024/

[News] Langchain announces Series A and the general availability of LangSmith
Langchain recently announced its successful $25 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Langchain also announced the general availability launch of LangSmith, its platform supporting LLM application prototyping, beta testing, and production.
https://dataphoenix.info/langsmith-is-now-generally-available/

[News] Google has announced the next-generation Gemini 1.5, as it expands access to Gemini 1.0 via Vertex AI
Google expanded the availability of the Gemini 1.0 models on Vertex AI, making 1.0 Pro generally available and 1.0 Ultra available via allowlist. Google also announced the private preview of the next-gen Gemini 1.5 model based on its Transformer and Mixture-of-Agents architecture.
https://dataphoenix.info/google-has-announced-the-next-generation-gemini-1-5-as-it-expands-access-to-gemini-1-0-via-vertex-ai/

[News] Webinar "Evaluating LLM Models for Production Systems: Methods and Practices"
Join the Data Phoenix webinar, where Dmytro Spodarets and guest Andrei Lopatenko will discuss a comprehensive understanding of the evaluation processes for LLMs, particularly in the context of preparing these models for deployment in production environments.
https://dataphoenix.info/webinar-evaluating-llm-models-for-production-systems-methods-and-practices/

[News] YOLOv9 promises to be the new state-of-the-art real-time object detector
YOLOv9 is a real-time object detector with performance competitive enough to become the newest state-of-the-art method. YOLOv9 features two improvements: Programmable Gradient Information (PGI) and Generalized Efficient Layer Aggregation Network (GELAN)
https://dataphoenix.info/yolov9-promises-to-be-the-new-state-of-the-art-real-time-object-detector/

[News] This week in AI: February 18-24
Bioptimus is building the world's first universal AI foundation model for biology; Google halted Gemini's people-generation capabilities, launched Chrome AI-powered experimental features, and Gemini for Workspace plans; Dating app company Match Group announced OpenAI partnership
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-february-18-24/

[News] The open-source multilingual LLM Aya supports over 100 languages
Cohere for AI's Aya Project is working towards closing the gap of language representation in AI by providing coverage to unserved and underrepresented languages. The Aya model and its dataset are available under a fully permissive Apache 2.0 license.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-open-source-multilingual-llm-aya-supports-over-100-languages/

[News] Aligning LLMs: DPO
Join AI Makerspace on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 10 AM PT! For a workshop on DPO. Come learn how it differs from the techniques of RLHF and why all indications are showing it's rapidly becoming the new industry standard.
https://dataphoenix.info/aligning-llms-dpo/