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Linux Foundation's Next Sandbox Project: An Open Source AI Platform

Industry giants led by open source vanguard Linux Foundation are working to create viable alternatives to commercial AI solutions.

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Amazon 'Q' Hits Prime Time

After a five-month preview, Amazon's enterprise AI assistant, dubbed simply "Q," is now generally available.

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JFrog Integration Extends MLflow Functionality

Software supply chain platform provider JFrog has announced a new machine learning (ML) lifecycle integration with MLflow, the open-source platform created by Databricks.

The Week in AI: New Tools from Salesforce, Zendesk, Datorios, WhyLabs, Hailo, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products and services includes the GA of Salesforce Einstein Copilot, a new service tool suite from Zendesk, the release AllegroGraph 8.1 and Hailo-10, Datorios' Apache Flink big-data processing framework, WhyLabs' new its AI Control Center, and a new AI training course from Google.

Next-Gen Small Language 'Phi' Model from Microsoft Released

Microsoft is promising high performance in a small package with this week's release of Phi-3, the latest version of its small language model (SLM).

AWS Updates Bedrock with Library Expansion and Model Comparison Feature

Launched just last fall, Amazon Bedrock, the AI development platform stewarded by cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), currently has a user base in the "tens of thousands."

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Open Source Models Have Edge in Cost, But Not in Performance

The cost of training foundation models has exploded, according to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), which put the price tag of Google's top-level Gemini Ultra model at around $191 million.

The Week in AI: GitLab's Chatbot, Amazon Music's Maestro, Socure's Digital ID, Dataminr's ReGenAI, More

This edition of our weekly roundup of AI products/services announcements includes announcements from meQuilibrium, GitLab, Button, Socure, Amazon Music, Dataminr, and more.

More AI Expansion Plans: Microsoft Plants Flag in UAE and OpenAI in Japan

Generative AI partners and occasional competitors Microsoft and OpenAI each continued their global expansion this month, with the former establishing a foothold in the Middle East and the latter in Asia.

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Meta's Llama 3 LLM Debuts with 8B and 70B Models

One day after Mistral released its latest open source large language model (LLM), Meta parried with its own.

Mistral Releases Latest Open Source Model, Mixtral 8x22B

Generative AI upstart Mistral released its newest model this week, the open source Mixtral 8x22B, under the Apache 2.0 license.

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AWS Positions Nitro Tech at Center of Its AI Security Strategy

The hypervisor that forms the foundation of Amazon Web Services' compute platform is also the backbone of its generative AI security framework.

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Cybersecurity Pros (Mostly) Welcome Using AI Tools for Threat Detection

AI isn't the end of cybersecurity, nor of cybersecurity jobs. That's according to the majority of respondents in recent survey of IT and security professionals.

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