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Research and commercial organizations can use the upgraded, open-source Meta AI engine for free. Image: Askar/Adobe Stock Meta is making its Llama 2 large language model open source, the Facebook parent company announced on July 18. The update to the model, which had been released as the first-generation LLaMA (also stylized as Llama 1) in February 2023, was first revealed at the Microsoft Inspire event. Microsoft will be a preferred partner with Meta on Llama 2. Jump to: What is Llama 2? Llama 2 is…

Besides having access to Llama, Meta also shared its weights. The other major LLMs haven't. With weights, the parameters learned by a model during training, it's much easier to create and run custom AI programs. The other big LLMs, such as GPT, are usually only accessible through application programming interfaces (API).While AI is built on open-source foundations, Llama is the first major open-source LLM. Its pre-trained models have been trained on 2 trillion tokens, and have to double Llama 1's context length. Its…

Since it's an open-source AI technology, commercial access to LLaMA gives businesses of all sizes the opportunity to adapt and improve the AI, accelerating technological innovation across various sectors and potentially leading to more robust models. Meta's LLaMA is available in 7, 13, 33, and 65 billion parameters, compared to ChatGPT's LLM, GPT-3.5, which has been confirmed to have 175 billion parameters. OpenAI hasn't said how many parameters GPT-4 has, but it's estimated to have over 1 trillion parameters -- the…

While HuggingChat will appeal mostly to developers and AI tinkerers, anyone can play with the tool online. One thing I should note: almost all discussion of the online HuggingChat interface says it collects no information and does not require a login. That might have been the case for the very earliest release, but that's no longer the case: Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNET Using the Web version of HuggingChat I had to set up an account with Hugging Face to gain access to the UI. And since I did not disable…

China has launched its first homegrown open-source operating system for computers, state media said on Thursday, as Beijing seeks to reduce its foreign dependence at a time of increased rivalry with the United States.The announcement of the new system came just before US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was due to land in Beijing on Thursday for meetings with Chinese officials aimed in part at stabilising relations between the world's two leading economies.The system, called OpenKylin, has been designed as a rival to the…

For Paul Anca, repair has always seemed like the obvious and only option. He grew up in Romania in the 1990s and fondly remembers his grandfather’s workshop—a sort of hospital for saving inanimate objects, from cars to toasters. Though the skateboards and toys they made together were probably more important to Anca in his youth, his appreciation for fixing things has stood the test of time.“I guess it was just a normal mindset back then. When something broke you tried to fix it, and nowadays that’s not the default,” says…

UK-based lawyer Chris Mammen explains in a recent interview with Vice about AI-generated music, that the law moves slowly and evolves by analogy. “Something new comes up, and we figure out what it’s analogous to, and then that gradually becomes settled law”. The problem we are facing now with generative AI – AI models that can generate creative output such as text, images, music, or videos – is the difficulty in coming up with analogies. In other words, relating generative AI to something we already know and understand.…

AI has managed to intrude on most artistic endeavors, and now it’s fully come for the music industry. Meta has now announced the release of the open source version of its music generation AI model that uses simple prompts to generate music like ChatGPT or other large language model-based AI generate text.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksFelix Kreuk, an AI research engineer at Meta, showed off the “MusicGen’s” capabilities in a Twitter thread late last week. The system can take…

Explore the top 10 open-source datasets collections for computer vision in 2023 Computer vision, a field of artificial intelligence, has witnessed significant advancements in recent years. One of the key factors contributing to these advancements is the availability of high-quality open-source datasets. These datasets play a crucial role in training and evaluating computer vision datasets, enabling researchers and developers to tackle complex visual recognition tasks. 1.ImageNet: ImageNet is a widely used dataset that…

Meta's Audiocraft research team has just released MusicGen, an open source deep learning language model that can generate new music based on text prompts and even be aligned to an existing song, The Decoder reported. It's much like ChatGPT for audio, letting you describe the style of music you want, drop in an existing tune (optionally) and then clicking "Generate." After a good chunk of time (around 160 seconds in my case), it spits out a short piece of all-new music based on your text prompts and melody.  The demo on…