MongoDB
A flurry of welcome new MongoDB tools show how powerful AI can be for developer productivity
“One of the most precious things that any organisation has is the time of their developers"
Citi
Job of the Week: Head of Generative AI Security, Citi
"Ideate and leverage Gen AI to solve cybersecurity problems at scale for Citi..."
AWS
Amazon swoops on AI hotshot Anthropic with $4 billion
AWS to replace Google Cloud as favoured compute platform and all future Anthropic models to be offered via Amazon Bedrock
DataStax
Taking generative AI to production: What CTOs need to consider
A groundswell of work on production generative AI applications powered by first-party data is happening, says DataStax CPO Ed Anuff. Change is coming and it is going to put pressure on enterprise data architectures.
NVIDIA
New open source NVIDIA toolkit aims to boost inference speed
The chipmaker says it can double the speed of inference on its H100 GPUs
News
New open source framework aims to make it easier to secure LLMs
eSentire has released a security appliance for large language modules LLMs that will utilize an open source model
AI
Censorship by hallucination? US educators are using AI to find and ban books with sex in them
Among the books pulled from one library are National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom-winner Maya Angelou's autobiography, Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaiden's Tale"
AI
Meta’s Llama 2 AI is free and not just for research -- but it's not open source
It is a generous and permissive licence, but prohibits the use of Llama to “improve any other large language model; excluding Llama 2” and users must request a special commercial licence if their product's MAU exceed 700 million.
Cybersecurity
"WormGPT" gives cybercriminals their own LLM
A dangerous Large Language Model trained on malware data sets is being used to launch BECs.
machine learning
With $1.3 billion MosaicML acquisition, Databricks sets itself up for open source generative AI fight
Databricks has agreed the deal just weeks after releasing Dolly 2.0, a 12 billion parameter open source language model, as a battle begins for dominance of open source generative AI workflows and platforms.
AI
How developers can build cost-effective AI models
The idea of ‘data-centric AI’, posits that we must focus on data quality over quantity. As our algorithms have progressed, and we have access to incredible open-source LLMs to train our own models, it’s time to focus on how we engineer the data to build cost-efficient models...
AI
Meta says its new AI is too dangerous to release - but fingerprinting synthetic speech may support safe deployment
Create a convincing simulacrum of your CEO's voice with just a two-second voice sample. What could go wrong?