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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

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Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English.

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Explosion snags $6M on $120M valuation to expand machine learning platform

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Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. Since then, that open source project has been downloaded over 40 million times.

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

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

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

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But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. billion parameters) — using ServiceNow’s in-house graphics card cluster.

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What is TensorFlow? The machine learning library explained

InfoWorld

Machine learning is a complex discipline but implementing machine learning models is far less daunting than it used to be. Machine learning frameworks like Google’s TensorFlow ease the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions, and refining future results.

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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

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Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.