People I've talked with have speculated that the release—and abrupt change to an Apache license—of Falcon 40B might accelerate Meta's timetable for release. It made an enormous splash as being both commercially permissive and competitive with LLaMA.
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Meta evaluates commercial release strategy for 3B AI model
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I reported earlier last month that Meta was evaluating what model(s) to make commercially permissive, and at the time was evaluating a 3B model. Obviously a lot goes into putting out a commercially permissive one vs. just one for research.
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Meta Makes LLaMA Commercially Permissive Amid Open Source LLM Race
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Today's issue is about the race for open source LLMs that seems to speed up literally every week. This week @theinformation reported that Meta is working on making its LLaMA model commercially permissive. Meta's been evaluating this since as early as May.
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Meta AI Introduces Voicebox Generative Speech System
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Introducing Voicebox, a new breakthrough generative speech system based on Flow Matching, a new method proposed by Meta AI. It can synthesize speech across six languages, perform noise removal, edit content, transfer audio style & more. More details on this work & examples
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Elon Musk’s Innovation Advice: Follow Your Passion for Success
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It was exciting to meet Elon Musk at @VivatTech in. Paris!
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 16 juin 2023
Elon Musk's advice to the younger generations:
Focus on what you like, you will eventually make other people like it as well, and your project will succeed!#inspiration #tech #AI pic.twitter.com/R1BifSQPXZIt was exciting to meet Elon Musk at @VivatTech in. Paris! Elon Musk's advice to the younger generations: Focus on what you like, you will eventually make other people like it as well, and your project will succeed! #inspiration #tech #AI
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Anthropic Launches Trust Portal for Certifications and Compliance
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Introducing our new Trust Portal, a way for you to easily find information about our certifications and compliance policies. We're excited to support use cases across a wide range of industries. https://
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Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale
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Voicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale
— AK (@_akhaliq) 16 juin 2023
blog: https://t.co/cw89vKIAUK
Large-scale generative models such as GPT and DALL-E have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision research. These models not only generate high fidelity… pic.twitter.com/vkHyOEvpVBVoicebox: Text-Guided Multilingual Universal Speech Generation at Scale blog:
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/voicebox-generative-ai-model-speech/
… Large-scale generative models such as GPT and DALL-E have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision research. These models not only generate high fidelity -
Apple’s Silent AI Strategy Prioritizes Experience Over Hype
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Interesting from @benedictevans
' newsletter: "Apple didn’t mention AI once in the entire two hour WWDC keynote, but there’s AI everywhere." Apple's focus is on customer experience, not marketing hype. The customer doesn't care about how something works:they just want it to work. -
Microsoft Teams Adds Discord-like Communities and AI Art Tool
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Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 gets Discord-like communities and an AI art tool The built-in Teams app will now include support for Microsoft’s communities feature inside Teams, the company’s answer to Facebook and Discord. https://
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Paris Gains Tech Influence as Elon Visits Over London
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London just had its “Tech Week” but a Paris conference gets Elon today. Says something.