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

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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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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

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It seems anyone can make an AI model these days. Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. And the performance gap between open source models and their closed, commercial alternatives is narrowing, he adds.

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

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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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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation

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THE BOOM OF GENERATIVE AI Digital transformation is the bleeding edge of business resilience. As transformation is an ongoing process, enterprises look to innovations and cutting-edge technologies to fuel further growth and open more opportunities. percent of the working hours in the US economy.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

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If any technology has captured the collective imagination in 2023, it’s generative AI — and businesses are beginning to ramp up hiring for what in some cases are very nascent gen AI skills, turning at times to contract workers to fill gaps, pursue pilots, and round out in-house AI project teams.

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

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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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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

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That’s why SaaS giant Salesforce, in migrating its entire data center from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has turned to generative AI — not only to help with the migration but to drive the real-time automation of this new infrastructure. We are on the bleeding edge in our operations,” he adds.