Microsoft recommits to open source AI models, despite OpenAI investment
Microsoft recommits to open source AI models, despite OpenAI investment
Why So Many AI Events Feature Live Llamas
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Microsoft recommits to open source AI models, despite OpenAI investment
Why So Many AI Events Feature Live Llamas
Microsoft partners with OpenAI's French rival Mistral
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Microsoft recommits to open source AI models, despite OpenAI investment
Microsoft made important moves to bolster its support for rival open source AI models from the likes of Facebook-parent Meta Platforms, Inc., which has become the de-facto steward of open source generative AI with its Llama models.
Llama-as-a-service is now available for enterprises to use, fine-tune, and deploy directly on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure, as well as rival open source model Mistral 7B from the well-funded French startup of the same name. The move was cheered by Meta Platforms AI pioneer Yann LeCun on X (formerly Twitter).
Yet, because open source models are by definition free-to-use and deploy for enterprise applications (licensing permitting), Microsoft’s move to offer such models on its Azure platform — where the paid Azure OpenAI service has already been available for the better part of the year — means that it may actually be costing its own investment/ally OpenAI some revenue. If you’re a business looking to deploy AI and see a model nearly as capable as OpenAI’s GPT-3.5/4 Turbo but that costs nothing or significantly less to deploy and use API calls, why wouldn’t you use the cheaper option?
By Carl Franzen of Venture Beat
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Why So Many AI Events Feature Live Llamas
The artificial intelligence industry has a new, unofficial mascot.
At an artificial intelligence meetup last year on San Francisco’s Embarcadero waterfront, llamas roamed the concrete. At another event in Paris, a llama sported a cloth featuring the logo of Hugging Face Inc., an AI startup. Intel Corp. passed out stuffed llamas at an AI conference in November.
The animal has become something of an unofficial mascot for the open-source AI movement, thanks mostly to Meta Platform Inc.’s AI product called Llama, an acronym for Large Language Model Meta AI.
Competing LLMs from OpenAI and Google are closed source, meaning their owners control the architecture and prevent developers from rewriting the underlying code. That’s helped Meta’s Llama gain momentum. The company has said its generative AI and open-source models have been downloaded over 100 million times.
One unexpected consequence of Meta’s quirky name is the heightened demand for live llama rentals.
George Caldwell, 75, has run an animal care facility in Sonora, California, called Llamas of Circle Home for 40 years. He learned about the AI industry’s enthusiasm for his animals last year when he was asked to bring three of them to the pier in San Francisco for an event. He chose Mystical Amigo, Yanantin and Yachay.
At the AI meetup, Caldwell’s llamas kept attendees occupied while waiting in line to enter talks. He provided brushes for attendees to comb the llamas’ fur…..
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Microsoft partners with OpenAI's French rival Mistral
Microsoft has entered into a multi-year partnership with Mistral AI, a French startup specializing in artificial intelligence. This collaboration is part of Microsoft's strategy to diversify its AI offerings on its Azure cloud computing platform, extending beyond its significant investment in OpenAI. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will make Mistral AI's models available on Azure and has also taken a minority stake in the company. Mistral AI is known for its large language models (LLMs) that are similar to those pioneered by OpenAI, capable of understanding and generating human-like text.
Mistral's proprietary model, Mistral Large, will be the first to be made available to Azure customers. The technology will be hosted on Microsoft's cloud platform, and the startup has plans to make its models available on other cloud platforms in the future. Mistral was founded by individuals who previously worked on Meta's artificial intelligence teams and at Google's DeepMind.
The partnership also includes a financial investment from Microsoft, with reports indicating that the tech giant will invest $2.1 billion in Mistral AI to support the startup's commercial growth and market expansion. This investment will also fund research and development of AI models for public sector services in Europe. Additionally, Mistral AI will launch a ChatGPT-style AI chatbot named "Le Chat" as part of its offerings….
Originally by Yuvraj Malik and Krystal Hu of Reuters
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