June 5, 2024

Mistral launches fine-tuning tools to make customizing its models easier and faster

Transform 2024 returns this July! Over 400 enterprise leaders will gather in San Francisco from July 9-11 to dive into the advancement of GenAI strategies and engaging in thought-provoking discussions within the community. Find out how you can attend here. Fine-tuning is critical to improving large language model (LLM) outputs and customizing them to specific enterprise needs. When done correctly, the process can result in more accurate and useful model responses and allow organizations to

Taryn Plumb June 5, 2024

Hardware

Sabrent Apex X16 Rocket 5 Destroyer tested: takes 16 x Rocket 5 4TB SSDs for 64TB of Gen5 SSD

Sabrent is now teasing its new Apex X16 Rocket 5 Destroyer, which can handle an incredible 16 x Rocket 5 4TB Gen5 SSDs for a monster 64TB of Gen5 SSD in a single PCIe slot. Check it out: 5 VIEW GALLERY – 5 IMAGES As you can see, there are two parts to this story: the back side of the Apex X16 Rocket 5 Destroyer features 8 x M.2 slots, for a total of 16

Anthony Garreffa June 5, 2024

Hardware

Intel’s next-gen Xe2 ‘Battlemage’ GPU: 50% perf uplift, Lunar Lake first, discrete GPUs later

Intel has officially unveiled its next-gen Xe2 GPU which will drop into Lunar Lake CPUs later this year, while next-gen Arc “Battlemage” discrete GPUs will arrive after. 18 VIEW GALLERY – 18 IMAGES During the Intel Tech Tour 2024 event, Intel fellow and ex-NVIDIA staffer Tom Peterson talked all things next-gen Xe2 GPU architecture. Intel is making things easier to understand with its next-gen GPU architecture, where instead of using LP, LPG, HP, and HPG

Anthony Garreffa June 5, 2024

Mistral launches new services and SDK to let customers fine-tune its models | TechCrunch

French AI startup Mistral is introducing new AI model customization options, including paid plans, to let developers and enterprises fine-tune its generative models for particular use cases. The first is self-service. Mistral has released a software development kit (SDK), Mistral-Finetune, for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers and small datacenter nodes. In the readme for the SDK’s GitHub repository, Mistral notes that the SDK is optimized for multi-GPU setups but can scale down to a

Kyle Wiggers June 5, 2024

Software

To Save or Not to Save: Making Strategic Financial Decisions in Business | HackerNoon

Drawing from both my personal experience and observing my peers managing everything from startups to large enterprises, it’s clear that assembling the right team poses a universal challenge. Determining whom to hire, negotiating salaries, and pinpointing necessary skills can be overwhelming — especially for non-technical leaders who may find the technical aspects perplexing. Even those with technical expertise can overcomplicate processes by fixating on specific technologies or excessively intricate procedures. The real challenge lies in

Andrii Poddubnyi June 5, 2024

Stability AI debuts new Stable Audio Open for sound design

Stable Audio Open is a new open model from Stability AI for generating short audio effects from a simple text prompt.Read More

Sean Michael Kerner June 5, 2024

How a Herd of Models Challenges ChatGPT’s Dominance: Abstract and Introduction | HackerNoon

Authors: (1) Surya Narayanan Hari, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering California Institute of Technology (Email: [email protected]); (2) Matt Thomson, Department of Biology and Biological Engineering Program in Computational and Neural Systems California Institute of Technology (Email: [email protected]). Table of Links Abstract and Introduction Conclusion and discussion, and References Abstract Currently, over a thousand LLMs exist that are multi-purpose and are capable of performing real world tasks, including Q&A, text summarization, content generation, etc. However,

Writings, Papers and Blogs on Text Models June 5, 2024

Software

Using AI to Bring the Deceased Back to Life | HackerNoon

Imagine being able to converse with Socrates, Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo, or Einstein. Or what if we were able to communicate with former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Franklin Roosevelt? Wouldn’t it be incredible if we could chat with Mary Queen of Scots, King Henry VIII, or Queen Elizabeth II? Or what if we could just speak again with our loved ones? The idea of using AI to replicate the voice and personality

Allan Grain June 5, 2024

How AI’s energy hunger upends IT’s procurement strategy

According to EPRI, the demand is being driven largely by generative AI, which can require exponentially more power per query than traditional search.Read More

James Thomason June 5, 2024

As customer experience declines across industries, Zingly offers innovative new solution

Transform 2024 returns this July! Over 400 enterprise leaders will gather in San Francisco from July 9-11 to dive into the advancement of GenAI strategies and engaging in thought-provoking discussions within the community. Find out how you can attend here. Customer service is the cornerstone of many successful businesses across sectors. If you do it right, you can build long-term relationships and brand loyalty. However, despite the advances in technology over the last decade or

Shubham Sharma June 5, 2024