SCRArcee AI has introduced SuperNova, a customizable language model with 70 billion parameters for enterprises. It can be used in a company’s own infrastructure and be customized, as James Thomason reports at VentureBeat. SuperNova is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1-70B Instruct architecture and uses a novel retraining process. It aims to provide an alternative to …
DeepSeek-V2.5 is the new champion among open source AI models. DeepSeek itself is an offshoot of the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management. The new model combines natural language processing and programming capabilities into one seemingly powerful system. According to Carl Franzen of VentureBeat, DeepSeek-V2.5 outperforms its predecessors in almost all benchmarks. The model offers …
ServiceNow is introducing a library of customizable AI agents for businesses. The company is planning updates to its Now Assist AI platform that will allow customers to integrate AI agents into their workflows. As Emilia David reports for VentureBeat, companies can use the new Now Assist Skill Kit to develop their own prompts and skills …
DigitalEx, a provider of cloud cost management software, has launched a new solution for controlling the costs of generative AI. The tool provides organizations with a centralized view of AI-related costs across multiple platforms, including AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and OpenAI. As CEO Sundeep Goel told VentureBeat, the solution enables detailed cost allocation, financial management, …
A new method called Transfusion enables the training of models that can process and generate both text and images. As researchers from Meta and other institutions report, Transfusion combines prediction of the next token for text with diffusion for images in a single transformational model. Experiments have shown that this approach scales better than quantizing …
A new open source model called OLMoE has been released by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) in collaboration with Contextual AI. As Emilia David reports for VentureBeat, the model aims to be both powerful and inexpensive. OLMoE uses a mixed-expert architecture with 7 billion parameters, of which only 1 billion are active per input …
Hugging Face has introduced LightEval, a new open source solution for evaluating large language models (LLMs). This was reported by Michael Nuñez on VentureBeat. The lightweight suite allows companies and researchers to evaluate AI models in a precise and customizable way. LightEval integrates seamlessly with existing Hugging Face tools and supports multiple devices including CPUs, …
Apple will release the beta version of Apple Intelligence with iOS 18.1 in October. The first features will be available in US English only, the company announced. Other English versions will follow in December for users in Australia, Canada and the UK. Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish are planned for 2025. Apple Intelligence is offered …
What a difference a weekend makes: Just a few days ago, the new Reflection 70B was considered the potential champion among open source models. According to official information, the model is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B, but with a special feature: it is specially trained not to give an immediate answer, but to analyze …
Large technology companies are investing billions in the development of artificial intelligence. As Bloomberg reports, even AI startups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding can barely keep up. Companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft, as well as a few startups like OpenAI, are spending huge sums on computing power, training data, and talent. …