The French startup Mistral AI has released the new AI model Mixtral 8x22B. Interested parties can download and use it free of charge. It is expected to reach and exceed the performance of models like GPT-3.5 and Llama 2 70B.
Loki is an open source solution that aims to automate the fact-checking process. The tool breaks down long texts into individual claims, assesses their worthiness for verification, searches for evidence, and finally checks the accuracy of the statements. Source: Hacker News
Zyphra introduces Zamba, an open source 7 billion parameter model designed to bring artificial intelligence to more devices, with a decentralized approach and smaller model size to provide a more cost-effective and personalized alternative to large, centralized AI models.
Databricks introduces DBRX, a new open source AI model designed to provide enterprises with a cost-effective and efficient alternative to GPT-3.5. Because companies deploy and manage it themselves, the security and confidentiality of data is better protected than with an external offering such as ChatGPT. Source: VentureBeat
MyShell TTS introduces OpenVoice. The tool can replicate a person’s voice in multiple languages using short snippets of audio. OpenVoice allows detailed control over voice style, emotion, accent, rhythm, pauses, and intonation. Source: Hacker News
While commercial AI offerings have many guardrails and barriers to protect them from misuse, the open model Liberated-Qwen1.5-72B advertises that it has no such restrictions. Instead, it is specially trained to strictly follow the system prompt. This makes it harder to “jailbreak“. At the same time, you have to decide for yourself which answers and …
NotesOllama is something for tech-savvy Mac users, but it shows what could be possible in the future. The tool integrates a locally installed chatbot directly into Apple Notes.
Stability AI is a provider of numerous AI tools that focuses more than others on open availability. There is now a large family of image generators that can be used on your own computer under the name Stable Diffusion. The recently announced Stable Diffusion 3 promises better quality in the future. This is especially true …
While Google’s Gemini offerings are proprietary, the company has now unveiled two open source models under the name Gemma that are free to use. Officials say they are based on the same techniques used for Gemini. With 2 billion and 7 billion parameters, the two Gemma models are small and have limited capabilities. However, they …