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Meta’s Llama 3 Model Has Potential to Shake Up AI Landscape
artificial intelligence // April 22, 2024

Meta has unveiled the latest iterations of its open-source Llama artificial intelligence (AI) model, which is causing ripples through the AI community. As the AI arms race continues to heat up, industry experts are closely examining Meta’s Llama 3 model’s capabilities, comparing it to rival...

Why Open Source Models Could Be the Future of AI
artificial intelligence // March 19, 2024

Elon Musk’s xAI is open-sourcing its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, in a move that some say could democratize AI technology and foster innovation in commercial applications. The company has released the data for Grok to X Premium+ subscribers through GitHub and BitTorrent. This open release...

Musk’s xAI Unveils Open-Source AI Chatbot Grok-1
Artificial Intelligence // March 18, 2024

Elon Musk has officially unveiled his open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. “We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model,” Musk’s xAI said on its website Sunday (March 17). “Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by...

Musk: Grok Will Become Open-Source AI Model
Artificial Intelligence // March 11, 2024

Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI will introduce an open-source model. “This week, xAI will open source Grok,” Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Monday (March 11), referring to the AI chatbot he introduced last year.  This week, @xAI will open source Grok —...

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Say Hello to Astra: Google Launches AI-Boosted Searches and a Smart Voice Assistant

May 15, 2024
Google unveiled a range of artificial intelligence (AI) advancements at its annual developer conference Tuesday (May 14), including more sophisticated analysis powered by Gemini, smarter assistants like Astra, and an infusion of AI into its dominant search engine, marking one of the most dramatic changes to the company’s foundation since its inception and potentially triggering […]

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Musk’s xAI Unveils Open-Source AI Chatbot Grok-1

March 18, 2024
Elon Musk has officially unveiled his open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. “We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model,” Musk’s xAI said on its website Sunday (March 17). “Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained from scratch by xAI.” The billionaire had announced last week that he was going to […]

Musk: Grok Will Become Open-Source AI Model

March 11, 2024
Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI will introduce an open-source model. “This week, xAI will open source Grok,” Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Monday (March 11), referring to...

Mistral AI Valued at $2 Billion Following Funding Round

December 10, 2023
French artificial intelligence (AI) startup Mistral AI has reportedly raised $415 million in a funding round. The round, as reported Sunday (Dec. 10) by The New York Times, values the...

Europe’s AI Legislation Exempts Open-Source Models

December 07, 2023
Europe’s new AI legislation could reportedly go easy on open-source artificial intelligence models. Lawmakers in Europe were still hammering out the details of the landmark AI Act on Thursday (Dec. 7), Reuters...