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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

TechCrunch

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Meta’s since-disbanded BlenderBot 3.0

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

TechCrunch

With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.” The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically.

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Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

TechCrunch

For many, ChatGPT and the generative AI hype train signals the arrival of artificial intelligence into the mainstream. Just last year, a similar proposition to Qdrant called Pinecone nabbed $28 million , though Zayarni considers Qdrant’s open source foundation as a major selling point for would-be customers.

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Stability AI releases ChatGPT-like language models

TechCrunch

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI claims it created a custom training set that expands the size of the standard Pile by 3x.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Minimizing M&A mayhem, cybersecurity PM checklist, open source AI

TechCrunch

Some are hiring talent to jump headfirst, others are happy to back the ‘ChatGPT for X’ spin-outs, and many are sitting in awe, watching their existing investments spark an AI debate of their own, no due diligence needed,” she wrote.

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8 ChatGPT tools for R programming

InfoWorld

ChatGPT can answer questions about a wide range of technology subjects, including how to write R code. That means ChatGPT's power is available to every R programmer, even those who know little about large language models. Don't use ChatGPT tools to process sensitive information. ChatGPT may confidently return incorrect answers.

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Gen AI without the risks

CIO

ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and DreamStudio–Generative AI are grabbing all the headlines, and rightly so. So, does every enterprise need to build a dedicated AI development team and a supercomputer to train their own AI models? Communities like Hugging Face offer a huge range of open-source models and applications.