Apple Publishes Details About New ‘MM1’ AI Model

Apple Publishes Details About New ‘MM1’ AI Model

Apple researchers have developed a new method for training large language models (LLMs) that seamlessly integrates both text and visual information. The company’s findings, detailed in a research paper titled “MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training,” showcase a new approach to creating more intelligent and flexible AI systems. By utilizing a diverse … Read more

Peer-replication model aims to address science’s ‘reproducibility crisis’

Peer-replication model aims to address science’s ‘reproducibility crisis’

An independent team could replicate select experiments in a paper before publication, to help catch errors and poor methodology.Credit: SolStock/Getty Could the replication crisis in scientific literature be addressed by having scientists independently attempt to reproduce their peers’ key experiments during the publication process? And would teams be incentivized to do so by having the … Read more

Base Model M3 MacBook Air Has Faster SSD Speeds After Controversy With Previous Model

Base Model M3 MacBook Air Has Faster SSD Speeds After Controversy With Previous Model

The base model 13-inch MacBook Air with the M3 chip, 256GB of storage, and 8GB of RAM has significantly faster SSD speeds compared to the equivalent model with the M2 chip, according to benchmark results shared today by YouTube channel Max Tech. Max Tech’s teardown video confirms that Apple has returned to using two 128GB … Read more

StarCoder2 LLM AI model designed for developers

StarCoder2 LLM AI model designed for developers

StarCoder2 is an advanced open-source coding language model designed for developers, is being made offering three variants with different parameter sizes: 3 billion, 7 billion, and 15 billion. It is the latest version of the Starcoder series and has been trained on a vast array of programming languages and tokens. The model is noted for … Read more

Which Claude 3 AI model is best? All three compared and tested

Which Claude 3 AI model is best? All three compared and tested

Anthropic has announced a new family of AI models named Claude3, consisting of three different-sized models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. These models are vision language models (VLMs), capable of processing both text and images. The Opus model has shown to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4 in various benchmarks, including zero-shot performance in tasks like grade school math … Read more

Mistral-NEXT new open-source model fully tested

Mistral-NEXT new open-source model fully tested

Unfortunately we might be coming to the end of the line for open source AI models from Mistral AI after the company quietly released their latest Mistral Large and speculations  that perhaps they would be moving from an open source release system. Mistral AI has made a name for itself by creating open-source AI models … Read more

New Mistral Large AI model beats GPT-3.5 and Llama2-70B

New Mistral Large AI model beats GPT-3.5 and Llama2-70B

Mistral AI has launched a new flagship AI model called Mistral Large, which has demonstrated superior performance over GPT-3.5 and Llama2-70B across all benchmarks. This model is currently the world’s second-ranked and is available through an API on Azure and Mistral AI’s platform. Despite its closed-source nature, Mistral Large offers cutting-edge text generation and reasoning … Read more