DigitalEx gives companies insight into the cost of generative AI

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, …

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Transfusion enables combined text and image models

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 …

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OLMoE is a completely open source MoE model

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 …

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Hugging Face LightEval helps evaluate LLMs

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, …

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Google Prompt Poet helps with complex prompts

Google has introduced Prompt Poet, an innovative tool for advanced prompt engineering. As Michael Trestman reports for VentureBeat, the system developed by Character.ai simplifies the creation of complex prompts for large language models through a user-friendly template system. Prompt Poet seamlessly integrates external data to enable contextual AI responses. The special feature of Prompt Poet …

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Replit Agent helps to code complete applications

Replit has introduced an AI agent that can build complete applications from scratch. As Chris McKay reports in an article for Maginative, this is much more than just a coding assistant. The agent can develop software on its own, from project planning and code writing to debugging and deployment. According to Replit CEO Amjad Masad, …

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Infinity creates talking characters

A new AI model called Infinity generates realistic talking characters. It is based on a video diffusion transformer that has been trained with audio input. According to the developers, this is the first model of its kind. Users can enter their scripts and get videos of animated characters speaking the text. It can process different …

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Salesforce xGen-Sales and xLAM introduced

Salesforce is introducing two new AI models to automate sales processes. The company unveiled xGen-Sales and xLAM, as Michael Nuñez reports in an article for VentureBeat. xGen-Sales is designed to perform complex sales tasks accurately and quickly, while xLAM is designed to trigger actions in software systems. Adam Evans, senior vice president of product for …

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Reflection 70B corrects its own errors

A new open source AI model called Reflection 70B has been introduced by Matt Shumer, co-founder of AI startup HyperWrite. As Shumer announced on the platform X (formerly Twitter), the model outperforms leading commercial systems in benchmarks. Reflection 70B is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1-70B Instruct and uses a new technique for self-correcting errors: the …

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Google launches “Ask Photos” in the US

Google is launching its AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature. The new feature, based on the Gemini AI model, allows users to use complex natural language queries to find photos. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the feature will initially be available to select customers in the US. With “Ask Photos,” users can search for the best …

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