LLMusical Chairs

The game of LLMusical chairs continues. Emad Mostaque, CEO of Stability AI (makers of the text-to-image app Stable Diffusion), has stepped down. He tweeted: "The concentration of power in AI is bad for us all. I decided to step down to fix this at Stability & elsewhere." Continue Reading →

Sora: OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Is Almost Here

OpenAI's Sora, an almost unbelievable text-to-video generator, has been making waves since it was announced. In February, Sora was made available to a select group of "red teamers" for security and stability testing, as well as to a limited number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers for feedback on its video generation capabilities. Continue Reading →

More LLMs Every Day

According to Inflection AI, Inflection-2.5 performs at more than 94% the average performance of GPT-4, despite using only 40% of the training FLOPs (floating point operations per second). Continue Reading →

NYT v. OpenAI: Who Hacked Whom?

OpenAI has accused The New York Times of employing deceptive tactics to generate evidence for a copyright lawsuit against the AI company. In a legal filing in Manhattan federal court, OpenAI alleges that The New York Times used "deceptive prompts" to make ChatGPT reproduce the newspaper's content, which OpenAI argues violates its terms of use and undermines the integrity of the legal process. Continue Reading →

Mistral Large: A New AI Model and a Microsoft Partnership

Paris-based startup Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large, a new open source AI model that builds on its initial offering, Mistral 7B. Designed for developers, Mistral Large distinguishes itself with exceptional reasoning skills and proficiency in code and mathematics. The model is multilingual and is fluent English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Continue Reading →