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Canva acquired Leonardo AI
It totally makes sense to me that Canva acquired Leonardo AI. Canva also recently acquired Affinity, a popular Adobe suite alternative. But something I feel a lot of people miss is that most gen AI tools like Leonardo are basically front ends for running Stable Diffusion. They rely on SD for updates to improve their…
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GraphRAG in LlamaIndex
GraphRAG in LlamaIndex! GraphRAG is a technique from Microsoft research for richly understanding text datasets by combining text extraction, network analysis, LLM prompting and summarization into a single system. The process involves two main steps: In this video you’ll learn how to set up the Graph RAG pipeline using LlamaIndex, including creating node chunks from…
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Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2)
Meta has unveiled the next evolution in object segmentation technology with the launch of the Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2). This advanced model significantly enhances the capabilities of its predecessor, supporting real-time, promptable object segmentation in both images and videos. SAM 2 and the associated SA-V dataset are released under open-source licenses, inviting developers…
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Groq API Cookbook
Ready to cook? 🚀 Dive into this collection of example code and guides for the Groq API. To get started, you’ll need a free Groq API key, which you can obtain by creating an account here. Join Groq developer community on Discord! Here, we discuss useful tools, share guidance, and collaborate with industry professionals. Contributing…
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Open Source AI News [29 Jul 2024]
What a massive week for Open Source AI. We finally managed to beat closed source fair and square! Stability dropped Sv4D, Nvidia released MambaVision, SakanaLabs with Evo (merging + stable diffusion), and more. This was a landmark week, and I’m personally quite happy with the direction of open source AI/ ML! Author: Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav…
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Mistral Large 2
Today, Mistral announces Mistral Large 2, the next generation of its flagship model. Compared to its predecessor, Mistral Large 2 is significantly more capable in code generation, mathematics, and reasoning. It also provides much stronger multilingual support and advanced function calling capabilities. This latest generation continues to push the boundaries of cost efficiency, speed, and…
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Future of Gen AI
It’ll be very interesting to see how Gen AI tools choose to evolve over the next 12 months. Will they start to look & function more like full suite editors, or stay unique tools that serve as an entry point for beginners / pathway to more advanced tooling? Right now gen AI tools like MJ,…
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Llama 3.1 405B
Starting today, open source is leading the way. Meta introducing Llama 3.1 405b their most capable models yet. Today Meta releasing a collection of new Llama 3.1 models including our long awaited 405B. These models deliver improved reasoning capabilities, a larger 128K token context window and improved support for 8 languages among other improvements. Llama…
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Nvidia Minitron 4B / 8B
Nvidia releases Minitron 4B & 8B – iteratively pruning and distilling 2-4x smaller models from large LLMs, requiring 40x fewer training tokens and with 16% improvement on MMLU! Distilled model (w/ pruning + retraining) beats teacher! Best practices: And many more in the paper below. Minitron 8B Base Minitron is a family of small language…
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ElevenLabs Reader App (iOS / Android)
The ElevenLabs Reader App is now on iOS and Android. Choose from hundreds of high quality AI voices to narrate any article, PDF, or ePub on the go. It’s only available in the US, UK, and Canada today. The app will launch worldwide in the next few weeks once ElevenLabs Dev Team add support for…