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Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
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Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained

A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.
Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained
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Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained

Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe’s new Generative Fill feature can revise images in a targeted way — say, change the fruit in a bowl from oranges to bananas — if you enter a few words that describe the change plus an indication of the areas to be changed.
Crystal Ball for Interest Rates: JPMorgan trained AI to interpret the Federal Reserve.
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Crystal Ball for Interest Rates: JPMorgan trained AI to interpret the Federal Reserve.

One of the world’s largest investment banks built a large language model to map cryptic government statements to future government actions. JPMorgan Chase trained a model based on ChatGPT to score statements by a United States financial regulator according to...
The Politics of Language Models: AI's political opinions differ from most Americans'.
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The Politics of Language Models: AI's political opinions differ from most Americans'.

Do language models have their own opinions about politically charged issues? Yes — and they probably don’t match yours. Shibani Santurkar and colleagues at Stanford compared opinion-poll responses of large language models with those of various human groups.
Google Adds AI Inside and Out: Generative AI highlights from Google I/O 2023
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Google Adds AI Inside and Out: Generative AI highlights from Google I/O 2023

Google showcased a flood of new features in its latest bid to get ahead in the generative AI arms race. The company demonstrated AI features for consumers and developers at its annual I/O conference.
Language Models in Lab Coats: The chatbot search engines for scientific research
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Language Models in Lab Coats: The chatbot search engines for scientific research

Specialized chatbots are providing answers to scientific questions. A new breed of search engines including Consensus, Elicit, and Scite use large language models to enable scientific researchers to find and summarize significant publications, Nature reported.
OpenAI Gears Up for Business: How OpenAI developed a sales strategy for GPT-4
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OpenAI Gears Up for Business: How OpenAI developed a sales strategy for GPT-4

Reporters offered a behind-the-scenes look at OpenAI’s year-long effort to capitalize on its long-awaited GPT-4. The company built a sales team and courted corporate partners in advance of launching its latest large language model, The Information reported.
Battlefield Chat: A military chatbot can create battle plans.
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Battlefield Chat: A military chatbot can create battle plans.

Large language models may soon help military analysts and commanders make decisions on the battlefield.
For Better Answers, Generate Reference Text: AI-generated reference text improves LLM output.
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For Better Answers, Generate Reference Text: AI-generated reference text improves LLM output.

If you want a model to answer questions correctly, then enriching the input with reference text retrieved from the web is a reliable way to increase the accuracy of its output. But the web isn’t necessarily the best source of reference text.
Radio Stations Test AI DJs: RadioGPT creates AI-powered DJs for local broadcasts.
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Radio Stations Test AI DJs: RadioGPT creates AI-powered DJs for local broadcasts.

A language model will stand in for radio disk jockeys. RadioGPT generates radio shows tailored for local markets.
AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.
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AWS Joins the Generative AI Race: AWS launches Bedrock, a generative AI platform.

Amazon joined big-tech peers Google, Meta, and Microsoft in rolling out services that provide generated text and images. The online retailer launched early access to Bedrock, a cloud platform that offers generative models built by Amazon and its partners.
Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.
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Goodbye Prompt Engineering, Hello Prompt Generation: Automatic Prompt Engineer (APE) research summary.

When you’re looking for answers from a large language model, some prompts are better than others. So how can you come up with the best one? A new model automates the process.
Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text
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Three Methods for Detecting Generated Text: Techniques to tell when you're reading AI-generated text

How can you tell when you’re reading machine-generated text? Three recent papers proposed solutions: Watermarking, classification, and a statistical method.
Example of interactive editing sessions with Meta's text generator PEER
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Collaborative Text Generator: A language model that collaborates with human writers

Text from current language models can be useful as a rough draft, but that leaves the polishing to human writers. A language model learned how to generate and respond to editorial directions.
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Repatriating Talent: Lelapa brings AI talent back to Africa.

A South African startup aims to lure talented engineers who left the continent to work abroad. Johannesburg research lab Lelapa.ai bills itself as a haven for African AI engineers who want to work on challenges that aren’t on Silicon Valley’s agenda.

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