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Researchers identify a “reasoning gap” in large AI models

Summary Are large language models capable of reasoning, or do they simply remember results from their training data? A research team led by Saurabh Srivastava at Consequent AI, which specializes in reasoning AI, explores this question in a new paper. The team challenges the common practice of AI benchmarking, which is typically based on static …

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TikTok company Bytedance is reportedly going all-in on generative AI

Summary Bytedance, the parent company of TikTok, allegedly wants to go “all-in” on AI. Bytedance is currently focusing on hiring AI personnel, improving its organizational structure, and expanding its basic research, reports the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Bytedance has an “all-in” mentality towards AI and sees AI as a battle it “cannot afford to …

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Sam Altman and OpenAI face numerous legal challenges

OpenAI’s business practices continue to draw criticism that could have legal consequences. The SEC is investigating whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman misled investors, according to the Wall Street Journal. The investigation follows allegations by former OpenAI board members that Altman was not “consistently candid” in his communications, which led to his brief ouster in November. …

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OpenAI and robotics startup Figure AI to develop next-gen AI models for humanoid robots

Summary Added details on the funding round and OpenAI’s partnership with Figure AI Update from February 29, 2024: Figure AI makes its new funding round official: $675 million, as previously reported by Bloomberg, at a valuation of $2.6 billion. What’s new is that OpenAI and Figure AI are entering into an additional partnership: Together, the …

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StarCoder2 is a free code model trained on over 600 programming languages

ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and Nvidia have released StarCoder2, a family of open-access code generation LLMs. StarCoder2 was developed in collaboration with the BigCode community as a successor to Starcoder, which was released in May 2023 and trained on 619 programming languages. StarCoder2 offers three model sizes: a 3 billion parameter model from ServiceNow, a 7 …

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Ideogram 1.0 outshines Midjourney and DALL-E 3 with impressive text rendering

Summary Ideogram has released its most advanced text-to-image model to date, Ideogram 1.0, which aims to differentiate itself from the competition with text rendering, photorealism, improved prompt following and a new feature called Magic Prompt. Until now, image AIs have not been good at rendering text properly within AI-generated images. Ideogram 1.0 addresses this issue …

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Metas Llama 3 is set to release in July and could be twice the size

Summary Meta’s next open-source language model, Llama 3, is scheduled for release in July and is intended to be on par with GPT-4. According to The Information’s sources, the new version of the model will be more responsive to the user, providing context for difficult topics rather than blocking tricky questions. For words that can …

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Google boss Pichai calls history-distorting AI images “completely unacceptable”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has addressed concerns internally about the company’s AI app Gemini (formerly Bard), which recently came under heavy criticism for historically distorted AI images. In a company-wide memo, Pichai acknowledged the problems and assured employees that Google is working to fix them. “To be clear, that’s completely unacceptable and we got it …

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Qualcomm releases 80 locally deployable AI models

Qualcomm has launched an AI Hub Models platform that provides pre-optimized, out-of-the-box AI models for image, audio and speech applications on Snapdragon devices and across the Android ecosystem. Models such as Whisper, ControlNet, Stable Diffusion, and Baichuan 7B are optimized for local AI performance, lower memory consumption, and better power efficiency, and are available for …

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Metas Llama 3 is set to release in July and could be a bit looser

Summary Meta’s next open-source language model, Llama 3, is scheduled for release in July and is intended to be on par with GPT-4. According to The Information’s sources, the new version of the model will be more responsive to the user, providing context for difficult topics rather than blocking tricky questions. For words that can …

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