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Mistral’s new model ditches transformers: Plus, can AI transform the agriculture industry?
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Mistral’s new model ditches transformers: Plus, can AI transform the agriculture industry?

Groq’s new tool use models, another AI safety and security industry group, Microsoft’s new research applying LLMs to spreadsheets, proposed safeguards to protect open AI models
AI can guess what you are seeing: Plus, a new tool to speed up attention mechanisms for LLMs
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AI can guess what you are seeing: Plus, a new tool to speed up attention mechanisms for LLMs

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. In today’s edition, you’ll find: a company that mines data to mine critical minerals...
Apple and Microsoft Won’t Observe OpenAI’s Board: Plus, Groq sports a speedy new web-based chatbot
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Apple and Microsoft Won’t Observe OpenAI’s Board: Plus, Groq sports a speedy new web-based chatbot

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. In today’s edition, you can find...
A person bypassing safety guardrails around AI systems in a high-tech environment
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Brazil puts the brakes on Meta: Plus, powerful jailbreak exploits AI models’ safety features

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. In today’s edition, you can find: Robots trained on audio, not just vision, Gen-3 Alpha video model now available, French regulator calls out Nvidia...
Cloning dead celebrities’ voices: Plus, Amazon absorbs most of Adept
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Cloning dead celebrities’ voices: Plus, Amazon absorbs most of Adept

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. Today’s edition includes: ElevenLabs gains rights to use dead celebrities’ voices for narration, VALL-E 2, Microsoft’s speech cloning tool, LangChain introduces LangGraph Cloud...
Google’s mid-sized Gemma 2 competes with Llama 3 and other open giants: Plus, ESM3’s new model can engineer proteins’ sequence, structure, and function
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Google’s mid-sized Gemma 2 competes with Llama 3 and other open giants: Plus, ESM3’s new model can engineer proteins’ sequence, structure, and function

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. Today’s edition includes: Mars5, an open source voice cloning tool, a new study on the most common forms of AI misuse...
Google Translate uses an AI assist to add over 100 new languages: Plus, Meta’s LLM Compiler brings language models to assembly code
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Google Translate uses an AI assist to add over 100 new languages: Plus, Meta’s LLM Compiler brings language models to assembly code

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news in brief. Today's edition includes: Florence-2, a small but capable family of vision models, Qualcomm’s AI Hub gives developers access to on-device tools and models...
A data scientist flying through the sky using a large PDF document as a flying carpet.
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Universal Music partners with SoundLabs to clone artists’ voices: Plus, Anthropic introduces Artifacts on Claude.ai

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the top AI news in brief. This week, that includes: BigCodeBench’s new metrics for LLMs’ programming abilities, Gen-3 Alpha, a new video model from Runway, Context caching in Google’s Gemini API...
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is powerful, inexpensive, and speedy: Plus, Dream Machine excels at text-to-video and image-to-video
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet is powerful, inexpensive, and speedy: Plus, Dream Machine excels at text-to-video and image-to-video

This week’s top AI stories, handpicked for you: A powerful new open source coding model, MixEval reevaluates top LLMs, Meta’s Chameleon available for research...
Microsoft delays Recall: Plus, Nvidia leads new MLPerf benchmarks
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Microsoft delays Recall: Plus, Nvidia leads new MLPerf benchmarks

This week’s top AI stories include: Personalized image generation, a second look at the MMLU benchmark, a new method to reduce LLM hallucinations, a closer look inside Apple’s AI cloud security
Qwen2 tops leaderboards for open LLMs: Plus, Kling, a new Chinese rival to Sora
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Qwen2 tops leaderboards for open LLMs: Plus, Kling, a new Chinese rival to Sora

This week’s top AI stories included: • Nvidia’s AI toolkit for Windows developers • AMD’s new competitor to Nvidia’s H100 • TowerLLM, a translation model that beats GPT-4o • Google’s updated smart notebook app
Anthropic makes tool use available for all users: Plus, ProteinViz makes protein visualization open-source again
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Anthropic makes tool use available for all users: Plus, ProteinViz makes protein visualization open-source again

This week’s top AI stories included: E.U. countries approving the AI Act, Google responding to criticism of AI answers in search, A new set of open-world vision models, A study on worldwide adoption of generative AI
How top models perform on a challenging new benchmark: Plus, Open AI’s latest agreements with news publishers
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How top models perform on a challenging new benchmark: Plus, Open AI’s latest agreements with news publishers

This week's top AI stories feature a new model from Mistral designed for coding, Microsoft’s updated Phi-3 family of small language models, OpenAI’s new safety and security team, and a family of models from Cohere that supports 23 global languages:
Hugging Face gives researchers and startups GPU access: Plus, Meta unveils a new mixed-modal model
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Hugging Face gives researchers and startups GPU access: Plus, Meta unveils a new mixed-modal model

This week's top AI news and research stories featured everything we know about OpenAI's GPT-4o, highlights from Google’s annual I/O developers’ conference, Sony Music's declaration opting out of AI training, and details about Meta's Emu Edit model. But first:
AI for spies: Plus, Stack Overflow’s controversial deal with OpenAI
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AI for spies: Plus, Stack Overflow’s controversial deal with OpenAI

This week's top AI news and research stories featured OpenAI's high-level guidelines for use by human labelers to steer model behavior, all about AlphaFold 3, Saudi Arabia's $100 billion investment AI, and a method that commands a robot to perform practical tasks...
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