[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/

[News] Flower Labs has raised $20M to bring federated and decentralized AI to mainstream
Flower Labs recently completed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Felicis to continue its work in developing federated and decentralized AI solutions. The company plans to use the funding to build a platform that goes together with its open-source framework.
https://dataphoenix.info/flower-ai-has-raised-20m-to-bring-federated-and-decentralized-ai-to-mainstream/

[News] Reddit announces Google partnership and a Directed Share Program
Google and Reddit have finally issued official statements regarding the agreement that gives Google access to Reddit's Data API. The deal was announced just as Reddit filed its IPO. Reddit also launched a Direct Share Program so a select number of users can own a piece of the company.
https://dataphoenix.info/reddit-announces-google-partnership-and-a-directed-share-program/

[News] Stable Diffusion 3 is now available via an early preview waitlist
Stability AI recently announced the early preview of Stable Diffusion 3, a text-to-image generation model family ranging from 800M to 8B parameters based on a diffusion transformer architecture with flow matching. SD3 stands out for its remarkable text generation capabilities.
https://dataphoenix.info/stable-diffusion-3-is-now-available-in-early-preview/

[News] Google introduced Gemma, a state-of-the-art open-source model family
Google recently announced the availability of a state-of-the-art open-source model family named Gemma. The Gemma models share technical features with Gemini and achieve a groundbreaking performance surpassing many similar models.
https://dataphoenix.info/google-introduced-state-of-the-art-open-source/

[News] This Week in AI: February 25 - March 2
Adobe announces AI music generation tool; Elon Musk sues Open AI citing a "breach of contract"; Stack Overflow launches its API partnering with Google; Figure AI raised $675M agrees to collaborate with OpenAI; GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now available; Hugging Face and NVIDIA released StarCoder 2
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-february-25-march-2/

[News] Anthropic announces the new Claude 3 family of models
Anthropic announced the next-generation Claude 3 model family. Opus, its most capable model, achieves state-of-the-art scores in many popular benchmarks, and Sonnet, the most balanced model, offers improvements in speed and performance compared to its predecessors.
https://dataphoenix.info/anthropic-announces-the-new-claude-3-family-of-models/

[News] Metaplane raised $13.8M to automate data observability
Metaplane has raised $13.8 million in a Series A round led by Felicis Ventures. Metaplane incorporates metadata extraction, domain-specific ML, and integrations to deliver an end-to-end data observability solution.
https://dataphoenix.info/metaplane-raised-13-8m-in/

[News] Orca-Math showcases the benefits of fine-tuning SLMs with multi-agent flows
A research team at Microsoft fine-tuned Mistral-7B to create Orca-Math, a small language model achieving state-of-the-art performance in solving grade school math problems (GSM8k). Orca-Math has a performance surpassing many LLMs, including math-specific models MetaMath-70B and WizardMa8th-70B.
https://dataphoenix.info/orca-math/

[News] This Week in AI: March 3-9
India is launching an AI advisory following the Google Gemini incident; Researchers are looking into optical computing as a foundation for AI; Amazon Bedrock announced the incorporation of the Claude 3 model family; OpenAI had another tumultuous week; Cognizant revealed its new advanced AI lab
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-march-3-10/

[News] DBSnapper Launches Version 2.0 with Database Subsetting
DBSnapper allows teams to safely use production data in development and AI modeling. Now with database subsetting for smaller, relationally complete snapshots.
https://dataphoenix.info/dbsnapper-launches-version-2-0-with-database-subsetting/

[News] The dstack Sky service connects users with GPUs at competitive prices
The dstack team has introduced dstack Sky, a managed service enabling users' access to GPUs from a wide selection of providers at competitive rates and without the hassle of managing individual provider accounts.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-dstack-sky-service-connects-users-with-gpus-at-competitive-prices/

[News] Cohere launches Command-R, a scalable model focusing on RAG and tool use
Cohere recently launched Command-R, a RAG-focused model incorporating several features designed with scalable implementation in mind, including a large context window, business proficiency in 10 languages, and tool access via external APIs. Command-R is available for deployment starting March 11.
https://dataphoenix.info/cohere-launches-command-r-a-model/

[News] Deci launches a generative AI development platform and the Deci-Nano model
Deci is debuting a series of LLMs and a Gen AI Development Platform. The first model is Deci-Nano, which features competitive benchmark scores, a fast throughput, and an affordable price. Deci-Nano and supported models can be deployed via Deci's platform via API, a VPC, or on-premises.
https://dataphoenix.info/deci-launches-a-generative-ai-development-platform-and-the-deci-nano-model/

[News] This Week in AI: March 10-16
Jan Koum's Newlands VC leads $10M investment into SuperAGI; Apple quietly bought DarwinAI to compete in the gen AI race; Databricks announces a partnership with Mistral AI; Zendesk confirms the acquisition of Ultimate; OpenAI partners with Le Monde and Prisa Media
https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-march-10-16/

[News] NVIDIA introduces the Blackwell architecture, a technology that will power "the new industrial revolution"
NVIDIA announced its new Blackwell architecture at the GTC keynote. Blackwell is the Hopper architecture successor, featuring a 30x performance increase and a 25x cost and energy consumption decrease when training or performing real-time inference for LLMs of up to 10 trillion parameters.
https://dataphoenix.info/nvidia-introduces-the-blackwell-architecture-a-technology-that-will-power-the-new-industrial-revolution/

[News] With NVIDIA's AI microservices, organizations can create and deploy generative AI copilots privately and securely
The newly launched NVIDIA microservices enable organizations to build and deploy AI applications locally while preserving control of their data. NIM supplies high-performing containers for proprietary and open model deployment while CUDA-X accelerates the production process.
https://dataphoenix.info/nvidias-ai-microservices-enable-organizations-to/

[News] The NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs extend Omniverse's capabilities for digital twins application and workflow creation
NVIDIA's Omniverse Cloud APIs enable developers to integrate RTX rendering and OpenUSD into their software tools and simulation workflows. Industry leaders worldwide leverage the Omniverse Cloud APIs to enhance their workflows and deliver solutions for the development of digital twin simulations.
https://dataphoenix.info/the-nvidia-omniverse-cloud-apis-extend-omniverses-capabilities-for-digital-twins-application-and-workflow-creation/

[News] xAI is releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1
Following Elon Musk's latest dispute with OpenAI, lawsuit included, xAI has followed through with the promise of delivering an open release of Grok-1. The weights and architecture have been released under an Apache 2.0 license, and the inference code is available on xAI's GitHub.
https://dataphoenix.info/xai-is-releasing-the/

[News] Claude 3 Haiku, Anthropic's fastest model, is now officially available
Anthropic officially launched Claude 3 Haiku on the claude.ai platform, the Claude API, and Amazon Bedrock, with upcoming Google Cloud Vertex AI availability. The vision-enabled model is fast, affordable, and is particularly adept at math reasoning and coding.
https://dataphoenix.info/claude-3-haiku-anthropics-fastest-model-is-now-officially-available/

[News] Pienso has secured $10M in Series A funding
Pienso, a startup founded by MIT Media Lab alum Birago Jones and Karthik Dinakar, announced that it secured $10 million in a Series A round led by new investor Latimer Ventures. Pienso offers a no-code platform that enables non-technical users to annotate large volumes of data to train algorithms.
https://dataphoenix.info/pienso-has-secured-10m-in-series-a-funding/