A MIT spin-off called Liquid AI has unveiled new AI models that are not based on the usual transformer architecture. According to the company, these “Liquid Foundation Models” (LFMs) already outperform comparable transformer-based models in performance and efficiency. Liquid AI announced this in a statement. Instead of transformers, the developers used approaches from the theory …
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 …
Google today announced major updates to its Gemini AI platform. The Gemini-1.5-Pro-002 and Gemini-1.5-Flash-002 models have been improved and now offer higher quality for mathematical tasks, long contexts, and visual applications. At the same time, Google is reducing the price of Gemini 1.5 Pro by more than 50% while significantly increasing the limits. A major …
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 …
Alibaba is stepping up its AI activities with the release of new open-source models and text-to-video technology. The Chinese technology company has now unveiled over 100 new open source AI models from its Qwen 2.5 family, according to Reuters. The models cover a range of sizes and capabilities, including mathematics and programming. They support over …
Anthropic, the company behind the AI assistant Claude, presents a new method to improve AI information retrieval. The technology, called Contextual Retrieval, reduces failed searches in large databases by up to 49 percent. When combined with reranking, the error rate is reduced by 67 percent. The process adds context to text snippets before they are …
In a new article on the Hootsuite website, Sarah Israel presents what she believes are the “10 best AI tools for copywriting” in 2024. These tools can help with various tasks such as brainstorming, writing social media posts, or search engine optimization. Among the offerings featured are OwlyWriter AI, ChatGPT, and HubSpot Content Writer. The …
OpenAI has unveiled a new family of AI models called “o1”. It was previously known as “Project Strawberry” and had led to all kinds of speculation and high expectations. The first two versions, o1-preview and o1-mini, use a reasoning method known as “chain of thought” to solve complex tasks. This technique allows the models 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 …
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 …