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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Round up: Claude 2, Stable Doodle, CM3leon, Llama 2, Azure and xAI
The most recent update, covering developments from July 17th, 2023, showcases significant progress and announcements in the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week's focus centers on Anthropic, Stability AI, Microsoft, Meta and xAI.
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Meta AI Reveals CM3leon, an Advanced Text-to-Image Generative Model
Meta AI has introduced CM3leon, a novel multimodal model combining text and image production. This model is the first of its type, using a modified formula from text-only language models to deliver remarkable outcomes with unequaled computational efficiency.
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Introduction to Mojo Programming Language
Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. It is at an early stage of development and offers users an online playground to explore its features. Mojo aims for excellence in data science and machine learning, providing a fast alternative to Python. There are gradual plans to make it available to open-source.
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EU AI Act: the Regulatory Framework on the Usage of Machine Learning in the European Union
After the first publication of the proposal on the operation of machine learning applications in 2021, on June 14th negotiations have started for the realization of the legislation in the EU Council. The EU countries are expected to reach an agreement by the end of 2023. The EU Act takes a risk-based approach and plans to avoid disproportionate prescriptions when executing the regulations.
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Databricks Unveils Lakehouse AI and MosaicML Acquisition at Data + AI Summit
The Data and AI company Databricks recently unveiled Lakehouse AI, a suite of tools for building and governing generative AI models, including large language models (LLMs), within the Databricks platform. Among the tools were LakehouseIQ, a "knowledge engine" that uses AI to understand a company's unique data, culture, and language in order to improve natural language interfaces like chatbots.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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Enhancing AI Capabilities: Google Cloud Integrates Vector Search in Managed Databases
Google Cloud recently added support for the pgvector on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL. The extension brings vector search operations to the managed databases, allowing developers to store vector embeddings generated by large language models (LLMs) and perform similarity searches.
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OpenAI Introduces Superalignment to Address Rogue Superintelligent AI
OpenAI announced the formation of a specialized Superalignment team with the objective of preventing the emergence of rogue Superintelligent AI. OpenAI highlighted the need to align AI systems with human values and emphasized the importance of proactive measures to prevent potential harm.
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Apple Extends Core ML, Create ML, and Vision Frameworks for iOS 17
At its recent WWDC 2023 developer conference, Apple presented a number of extensions and updates to its machine learning and vision ecosystem, including updates to its Core ML framework, new features for the Create ML modeling tool, and new vision APIs for image segmentation, animal body pose detection, and 3D human body pose.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Round Up: Vertex, AlphaDev, Function Calling, Gorilla, and Falcon
The latest update, spanning from June 12th, 2023, highlights the recent advancements and announcements in the domains of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week's spotlight is on notable entities such as Google, OpenAI, UC Berkeley, and AWS.
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QCon New York 2023: Day Two Recap
Day Two of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 14th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included a keynote address by Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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Minecraft Welcomes Its First LLM-Powered Agent
Researchers from Caltech, Stanford, the University of Texas, and NVIDIA have collaboratively developed and released Voyager, an LLM power agent that utilizes GPT-4 to engage in Minecraft gameplay. Voyager demonstrates remarkable capabilities by learning, retaining knowledge, and showcasing exceptional expertise in Minecraft.
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AI, ML & Data News Roundup: Generative Fill, Copilot, Aria, and Brain Chips
The most recent update, covering the week starting May 22nd, 2023, encompasses the latest progress and declarations in the fields of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This week, the focus is on prominent figures such Adobe, Microsoft, Opera, and the University of Lausanne.
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Adopting Artificial Intelligence: Things Leaders Need to Know
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help companies identify new opportunities and products, and stay ahead of the competition. Senior software managers should understand the basics of how this new technology works, why agility is important in developing AI products, and how to hire or train people for new roles.
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Hugging Face Releases StarCoder, the Next-Generation LLM for Seamless Code Generation
Hugging Face and ServiceNow have partnered to develop StarCoder, a new open-source language model for code. The model created as a part of the BigCode initiative is an improved version of the StarCoderBase model trained on 35 billion Python tokens. StarCoder is a free AI code-generating system alternative to GitHub’s Copilot, DeepMind’s AlphaCode, and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer.