The latest update for the week of April 17th, 2023, includes the recent advancements and announcements in the domains of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The spotlight this week is on top players like Hugging Face, AWS, Microsoft, and Stability AI, who have introduced groundbreaking innovations.
HuggingGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Solve Complex AI Tasks with Hugging Face Models
A recent paper by researchers at Zhejiang University and Microsoft Research Asia explores the use of large language models (LLMs) as a controller to manage existing AI models available in communities like Hugging Face.
AWS Enters the Generative AI Race with Bedrock and Titan Foundation Models
AWS announced their entry into the generative AI race with the launch of Amazon Bedrock and Titan foundation models. Amazon aims to democratize access to generative AI technology, catering to customers across various industries and use cases. This groundbreaking development positions Amazon as a formidable competitor in the rapidly growing AI market.
In addition AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 Trn1n instances powered by AWS Trainium and Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances powered by AWS Inferentia2, the most cost-effective cloud infrastructure for generative AI.
Microsoft Open-Sources Multimodal Chatbot Visual ChatGPT
Microsoft Research recently open-sourced Visual ChatGPT, a chatbot system that can generate and manipulate images in response to human textual prompts. The system combines OpenAI's ChatGPT with 22 different visual foundation models (VFM) to support multi-modal interactions.
Stability AI Launches the First of its StableLM Suite of Language Models
Stability AI released a new open-source language model, StableLM. The Alpha version of the model is available in 3 billion and 7 billion parameters, with 15 billion to 65 billion parameter models to follow. Developers can freely inspect, use, and adapt our StableLM base models for commercial or research purposes, subject to the terms of the CC BY-SA-4.0 license.