Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. Hugging Face has developed the highly optimized Zephyr-7B mini-language model based on Mistral 7B, an open-source model from European start-up Mistral AI. The model was refined using a …

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Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. OpenAI will reportedly deny seats on its revamped board to major investors such as Microsoft, Thrive Capital, and Khosla Ventures. The decision suggests that the company will prioritize …

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Amazon has introduced Titan Image Generator, an AI model that allows developers to create realistic, studio-quality images using natural language prompts. Aimed at enterprise users, the model can generate images with “inclusive attributes and limited distortions”, according to AWS. It offers features such as automatic image editing, inpainting, and outpainting. Developers can also customize the …

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Summary Drones and computer vision could help detect minefields in Ukraine and speed up clearance. Jasper Baur, a PhD student at Columbia University, is working with the Safe Pro Group to develop drone technology that uses artificial intelligence to detect landmines in Ukraine. The technology, which has shown a detection rate of around 90% in …

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Summary Amazon has unveiled its chatbot called Amazon Q, which is focused on use in the workplace. This puts Amazon in competition with other enterprise chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbot. However, early reviews and a lack of benchmarks suggest that Amazon Q is not as advanced as OpenAI’s GPT-4. Amazon Q …

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Summary Stability AI introduces SDXL Turbo, a new text-to-image model capable of generating high-quality AI images in real-time. SDXL Turbo builds on the foundation of SDXL 1.0 and implements a new distillation technique for text-to-image models: Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD). This technique reduces the number of image generation steps from 50 to a single step, …

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