A data scientist from Singapore has developed an open-source alternative to Google’s NotebookLM. Gabriel Chua of the GovTech agency created the tool called “Open NotebookLM” in just one afternoon. It converts PDF documents into personalized podcasts using publicly available AI models. The project demonstrates how quickly complex AI applications can be replicated today. However, the …
AI platform Hugging Face has reached a milestone of one million listed AI models. This was reported by Benj Edwards for Ars Technica. Launched in 2016 as a chatbot app, the platform has evolved into an open source hub for AI models. CEO Clément Delangue explains the boom with the customization of models for specific …
Meta has today released the new version of its AI model series: Llama 3.2, which for the first time includes vision models that can process both images and text. The larger versions with 11 and 90 billion parameters should be able to compete with closed systems like Claude 3 Haiku for image processing. Also new …
A new open-source AI model called Molmo could help advance the development of AI agents. Developed by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), the model can interpret images and communicate via a chat interface. According to Wired’s Will Knight, this enables AI agents to perform tasks such as web browsing or document creation. In some …
Researchers are apparently increasingly using small AI models on their own computers instead of the offerings of large AI services like ChatGPT. As Nature reports, freely available tools such as Llama or Phi-3 allow scientists to run AI models locally. This offers advantages: cost savings, data protection, and reproducibility. The local AI models are becoming …
The AI tool Scramble is an extension for the Chrome browser. Once installed, you highlight the text in question, select “Scramble” from the context menu, and get suggestions for improvement. According to the project’s official GitHub page, it aims to be a more flexible and privacy-friendly alternative to Grammarly. However, the privacy argument in particular …
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Tencent AI Lab have developed a new text-to-audio model called EzAudio. As Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, EzAudio can generate high-quality sound effects from text descriptions. The model uses an innovative method for processing audio data and a new architecture called EzAudio-DiT. In tests, EzAudio outperformed existing open-source models …
Companies can achieve significant cost savings by building their own conversational AI based on the open source model Llama 3. This is the result of an analysis by Sam Oliver, founder of OpenFi, published on VentureBeat. According to Oliver, an average conversation with Llama 3 costs about $0.08, while the same conversation with OpenAI’s GPT-4 …
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 …
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 …