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No more opening a dozen official blogs every morning. First-hand releases from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and the rest, each with its substance pulled out.
xAI Series B Funding Round
xAI has raised $6 billion in Series B funding to accelerate the development of advanced AI systems and build necessary infrastructure to bring its products to market.
Falcon 2 11B Release Notes
TII has released Falcon 2 11B, a series of smaller, high-performance models including a pretrained LLM and a Vision-Language Model (VLM) trained on over 5,000 billion tokens.
CyberSecEval 2: Evaluating Cybersecurity Risks in Large Language Models
Hugging Face and Meta have introduced CyberSecEval 2, a comprehensive framework to evaluate LLM susceptibility to code interpreter abuse, offensive cybersecurity capabilities, and prompt injection attacks.
OpenAI and News Corp Multi-Year Global Partnership
OpenAI and News Corp have entered a multi-year agreement allowing OpenAI to integrate News Corp's current and archived content from major publications like The Wall Street Journal and The Times into its products to improve information reliability.
Hugging Face AWS Inferentia2 Integration
Hugging Face has expanded support for AWS Inferentia2, enabling the deployment of over 100,000 models via Amazon SageMaker and introducing new Inf2 instance options for Hugging Face Inference Endpoints.
OpenAI Safety Practices
OpenAI has detailed ten core safety practices used to develop and deploy frontier AI models, emphasizing a scientific approach that integrates safety into every stage of the model lifecycle.
Hugging Face and Microsoft Strategic Collaboration Update May 2024
Hugging Face and Microsoft have expanded their strategic partnership to integrate popular open models into the Azure Model Catalog, enable AMD MI300X GPU support on Azure, and introduce a VS Code integration for Hugging Face Spaces.
Hugging Face Integration for AMD Instinct MI300 GPU
Hugging Face has enabled first-class integration for the AMD Instinct MI300 GPU, delivering up to 3x faster inference and 2x faster fine-tuning for Llama 3 70B compared to the MI250.
Dell Enterprise Hub: On-Premise AI Deployment and Training
Hugging Face and Dell have launched the Dell Enterprise Hub, a platform that simplifies the on-premise training and deployment of open-source large language models on Dell hardware.
Hugging Face Spaces Dev Mode Release
Hugging Face has introduced Spaces Dev Mode, allowing PRO subscribers to connect via VS Code or SSH for real-time code editing without requiring git pushes for every change.
Anthropic maps internal concepts of Claude 3 Sonnet using large-scale dictionary learning
Anthropic disclosed that it extracted millions of interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet, revealing how concepts are represented inside a production‑grade LLM and showing that manipulating these features can change model behavior, a step toward safer AI.
Krishna Rao joins Anthropic as Chief Financial Officer
Anthropic has appointed Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer to lead financial strategy and operations during a period of enterprise growth and international expansion.
Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy Reflections
Anthropic provides an operational update on its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), detailing the implementation of AI Safety Levels (ASL) and the frameworks used to mitigate catastrophic risks in frontier models.
Firebase Genkit with Ollama Support
Google has released Firebase Genkit, an open-source framework for building AI-powered apps, featuring native support for Ollama to run Google's Gemma model locally.
OpenAI ChatGPT Voice Selection Process
OpenAI detailed the five-month casting process used to select the five professional voice actors for ChatGPT, while clarifying that the voice 'Sky' was not intended to mimic Scarlett Johansson.
ChatGPT Data Analysis Improvements May 2024
OpenAI has introduced enhancements to data analysis in ChatGPT, including direct cloud storage integration, interactive tables, and customizable charts, powered by GPT-4o.
OpenAI and Reddit Partnership
OpenAI and Reddit have partnered to integrate real-time Reddit content into ChatGPT and implement OpenAI's AI models to enhance Reddit's user and moderator features.
Hugging Face KV Cache Quantization
Hugging Face has introduced KV Cache Quantization in the Transformers library to reduce memory usage for long-context text generation with minimal impact on model quality.
Canva Magic Studio Integration with OpenAI
Canva has integrated OpenAI's GPT-4 and API to power its Magic Studio AI suite, which has been used over 5 billion times to simplify design for non-professional creators.
Mike Krieger Joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
Anthropic has appointed Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, as Chief Product Officer to lead product engineering, management, and design.
OpenAI Leadership Change: Ilya Sutskever Departs, Jakub Pachocki Named Chief Scientist
OpenAI has announced that co-founder Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company, with Jakub Pachocki appointed as the new Chief Scientist to lead research efforts toward AGI.
Introducing the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard
Hugging Face and the Technology Innovation Institute have launched the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard (OALL) to provide a specialized, open evaluation platform for Arabic Large Language Models.
PaliGemma Vision Language Model Release
Google has released PaliGemma, a family of open vision-language models combining SigLIP-So400m and Gemma-2B to enable tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and object detection.
Hugging Face and LangChain Launch langchain_huggingface Partner Package
Hugging Face and LangChain have released langchain_huggingface, a jointly maintained partner package to streamline the integration of Hugging Face models into the LangChain ecosystem.
Claude now available in the EU – Anthropic expands access to its AI assistant
Anthropic announced that Claude, its AI assistant, is now available to individuals and businesses across Europe via Claude.ai, an iOS app, and a Team plan, extending the Claude 3 model family to the EU market.
OpenAI GPT-4o Release Notes
OpenAI has released GPT-4o, an omni-model trained end-to-end across text, vision, and audio to enable natural human-computer interaction with human-like response latencies.
OpenAI Spring Update: Introducing GPT-4o
OpenAI has released GPT-4o, a new flagship model capable of real-time reasoning across audio, vision, and text, while expanding advanced capabilities to ChatGPT free users.
OpenAI GPT-4o Release and ChatGPT Free Tier Enhancements
OpenAI has launched GPT-4o, a flagship model providing GPT-4 level intelligence with improved speed and multimodal capabilities across text, voice, and vision, now available to both free and paid users.
Transformers Agents 2.0 release notes / what's new
Hugging Face introduces Transformers Agents 2.0, a modular agent framework featuring iterative problem-solving agents and high performance on the GAIA benchmark using Llama-3-70B-Instruct.
Qwen-Max-0428 Release Notes
Qwen has released Qwen-Max-0428, an instruction-tuned chat model that outperforms Qwen1.5-110B-Chat on MT-Bench and ranks in the top 10 of the Chatbot Arena leaderboard.
Anthropic Usage Policy Update June 2024
Anthropic has updated its Acceptable Use Policy to a new Usage Policy effective June 6, 2024, introducing stricter guidelines on election integrity, high-risk use cases, and biometric data analysis.
Building Cost-Efficient Enterprise RAG Applications with Intel Gaudi 2 and Intel Xeon
Hugging Face demonstrates how combining Intel Gaudi 2 accelerators and Intel Xeon CPUs via the OPEA framework allows enterprises to build RAG applications with superior performance-per-dollar compared to H100-based systems.
Hugging Face Enterprise Hub now available on AWS Marketplace
Hugging Face has integrated Enterprise Hub with the AWS Marketplace, allowing organizations to upgrade their accounts and manage billing directly through their AWS accounts.
OpenAI Model Spec
OpenAI has introduced the Model Spec, a framework of objectives, rules, and default behaviors designed to standardize and transparently shape how AI models behave in the OpenAI API and ChatGPT.
OpenAI Approach to Data and AI
OpenAI is introducing Media Manager to allow creators to control their content's use in AI training and detailing its multi-pronged data sourcing strategy to balance model diversity with creator rights.
OpenAI Content Provenance and Authenticity Initiatives
OpenAI is adopting the C2PA open standard for digital content certification and developing internal tools like image detection classifiers and audio watermarking to help users identify AI-generated content.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow API Partnership
OpenAI and Stack Overflow have partnered to integrate vetted technical data via OverflowAPI into OpenAI models and ChatGPT, while Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models to develop OverflowAI.
Hugging Face Open Leaderboard for Hebrew LLMs
Hugging Face has launched an open leaderboard specifically designed to evaluate and improve Large Language Models (LLMs) in Hebrew, addressing the challenges of low-resource and morphologically complex languages.
Artificial Analysis LLM Performance Leaderboard on Hugging Face
Hugging Face has integrated the Artificial Analysis LLM Performance Leaderboard, providing AI engineers with a unified metric system for comparing the quality, price, and speed of over 100 serverless LLM API endpoints.
Hugging Face Inference Endpoints ASR and Diarization Pipeline
Hugging Face introduces a custom inference handler for deploying a modular pipeline combining Whisper ASR, Pyannote diarization, and speculative decoding on Inference Endpoints.
OpenAI Disrupts "Bad Grammar" Russian-Linked Influence Operation
OpenAI banned a Russian-linked network dubbed "Bad Grammar" that used AI models to automate the generation of political comment spam on Telegram across multiple countries.
OpenAI Disrupts China-linked Influence Operation "Spamouflage"
OpenAI banned accounts associated with the operation known as Spamouflage, a China-linked influence campaign that used AI to generate content and conduct research for targeting critics of the Chinese government.
OpenAI Disrupts Russian 'Doppelganger' Influence Operation
OpenAI banned four clusters of accounts linked to the Russian 'Doppelganger' influence operation that used AI to generate multilingual content targeting Europe and North America.
OpenAI Operation Zero Zeno: Israel-linked Influence Activity
OpenAI banned a cluster of accounts operated by the Israeli political campaign firm STOIC to disrupt an AI-generated influence operation targeting multiple countries.
OpenAI Disrupts Iran-linked Influence Operation IUVM
OpenAI banned accounts associated with IUVM, an Iran-linked influence network that used AI to generate and translate pro-Iran, anti-US, and anti-Israel content.
Improving Prompt Consistency with Structured Generations
Hugging Face and Dottxt research demonstrates that using structured generation to constrain LLM outputs reduces performance variance and improves ranking consistency across different prompt formats and shot orders.
StarCoder2-15B-Instruct-v0.1 release notes / what's new
Hugging Face introduces StarCoder2-15B-Instruct-v0.1, the first entirely self-aligned code LLM trained with a fully transparent and permissive pipeline that outperforms CodeLlama-70B-Instruct on HumanEval.
OpenAI and Financial Times Strategic Partnership
OpenAI and the Financial Times have entered a strategic partnership and licensing agreement to integrate attributed FT journalism into ChatGPT and provide FT employees with ChatGPT Enterprise access.
Anthropic Circuits Updates April 2024
Anthropic's April 2024 Circuits updates provide preliminary research findings on interpretability, multiagent system failures, and a breakthrough in the Riemann zeta function lower bound.
Qwen1.5-110B release notes / what's new
Qwen has released Qwen1.5-110B, the first model in the Qwen1.5 series to exceed 100 billion parameters, delivering competitive performance against Llama-3-70B and significant improvements over Qwen1.5-72B.