Hugging Face launched a free alternative to OpenAI’s GPT Store. The tool can easily build customizable AI assistants powered by any open-source models of your choosing. Another example of open source quickly catching up to industry leaders.
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Google MobileDiffusion Enables Instant Text-to-Image Generation
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Google released MobileDiffusion, a new approach that allows for near-instantaneous text-to-image on mobile. The announcement states the model can generate a 512×512 high-quality image in half a second on mobile… and is only 520M parameters. https://
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Alibaba’s Quen-VL-Plus Matches GPT-4 Vision Capabilities
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Alibaba’s Quen-VL-Plus is quietly gaining ground on the top multimodal LLMs, with its vision capabilities matching/exceeding GPT-4. AI in China is seriously heating up, and it's not being talked about enough. Will share more of my findings soon.
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Apple Accelerates AI Strategy with On-Device LLMs and AppleGPT
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We know that back in December, Apple quietly published a breakout paper on a technique to run LLMs on iPhones. Plus, they've been running AppleGPT internally for some time now. With Vision Pro launch finally over, is Apple finally going all in on AI?
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Apple CEO hints at major AI announcement for 2026
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Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted at an AI announcement coming from the company later this year. “Let me just say that I think there’s a huge opportunity for Apple with Gen AI and AI, without getting into more details and getting out in front of myself”
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Google Rebrands Bard to Gemini Advanced Launch
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A leaked changelog just revealed three major Google AI announcements coming on Feb 7th (Wednesday): 1. Bard to be rebranded as Gemini
2. 'Gemini Advanced' (AKA Bard Advanced) tier built on Gemini Ultra launching this week
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Major AI Breakthroughs: Gemini Ultra, Apple AI, Alibaba Model
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A wild weekend in the world of AI. -Leak reveals Gemini Ultra coming this week
-Tim Cook hints AI coming to Apple
-Alibaba model beats GPT-4 Vision
-Google released MobileDiffusion
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Artimus AI Agent Fails to Generate Significant Hype on X
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It’s been interesting watching Artimus not getting any significant hype on X. Big deal, imo.
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Supertools: Comprehensive AI Tools Directory and Bookmarking Platform
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Haha, thanks! Bookmarks are always high on these new AI tool threads. For anyone who prefers to see all the tools in one spot, I have that on Supertools too 🙂
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Hugging Face Chat Assistants: Free Open-Source GPT Alternative
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10. Hugging Face Chat Assistants An open-sourced version of OpenAI GPTs, except it's completely free and allows you to create an AI assistant from any open-source LLM. Link: https://
huggingface.co/chat/assistants