Cloud
Google Cloud NEXT: AI for Workspace, BigQuery; compute, storage innovations, an Arm CPU...
199 pages of embargoed press releases; where do we start?
LLMs
Databricks releases most powerful open LLM yet
Inference “up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B” for new model, trained on 12 trillion tokens.
Zoom
Zoom turns to AI to reinvent itself as much more than just video calling
Zoom bets big on its AI powered collaborative workspace
micron
Memory is hot property amid AI boom, as Micron sells out of HBM through 2025
For LLMs “GPU RAM is actually one of our most valuable commodities. It's frequently the bottleneck, not compute…”
News
SacrAI Bleu! France fines Google for stealing content to train robobrains
Google is in hot water over allegations it illegally scraped content from publishers without getting permission
LLMs
Musk open-sources 314-billion parameter LLM "Grok" (including weights), but...
Apache 2.0 licence and weights, but no training code/reproducible datasets.
AI
Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" - targets biometrics, bias, black boxes
Emotion recognition banned in workplaces, classrooms.
Opinion
The key to making Large Language Models work is becoming clearer.
"GenAI with too low a temperature lacks creative spark... Too high a temperature and it will strongly hallucinate" -- Neo4j’s Jim Webber discusses new ways of delivering GenAI value.
CISO
Anthropic’s CISO drinks the AI kool aid - backpedals frantically on security analysis claim
"The entire analysis from the original post is wrong. It shows only the negative value of using LLM in such cases..."
News
techUK calls on next gov to lead on AI – though tech leaders just want lower energy costs
Wish list also features deregulation, tax breaks
AI
India rushes to regulate AI as citizens get ready to head to the polls
Critics wonder if new laws are no more than a knee-jerk reaction to chatbots describing the country's PM's policies as "fascist"
AI
Researchers go back to the 80s to jailbreak LLMs :-)
Generative AI models can be fooled using ASCII art, while "rainbow teaming" pushes LLM semantic defenses to limit...