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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO

To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. So we augment with open source, he says. Right now, the company is using the French-built Mistral open source model.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

Generative AIAI that can write essays, create artwork and music, and more — continues to attract outsize investor attention. According to one source, generative AI startups raised $1.7 Current cloud offerings, with closed-source models and data, do not meet their requirements.”

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Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI

TechCrunch

Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases. Characterizing proteins can reveal the mechanisms of a disease, including ways to slow it or potentially reverse it, while creating proteins can lead to entirely new classes of drugs and therapeutics.

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Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI

TechCrunch

Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, which today announced that it closed a $102.5

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Join Travis Addair, CTO of Predibase, and Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI, in this exclusive webinar to learn: How guardrails can be used to mitigate risks and enhance the safety and efficiency of LLMs, delving into specific techniques and advanced control mechanisms that enable developers to optimize model performance effectively (..)

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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

Code-generating systems like DeepMind’s AlphaCode, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and OpenAI’s Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what’s possible with AI today within the realm of computer programming.

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Empower your generative AI application with a comprehensive custom observability solution

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Recently, we’ve been witnessing the rapid development and evolution of generative AI applications, with observability and evaluation emerging as critical aspects for developers, data scientists, and stakeholders. In the context of Amazon Bedrock , observability and evaluation become even more crucial.