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Abu Dhabi Releases Largest Openly-Available Language Model Falcon 180B
The Abu Dhabi government's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) released Falcon 180B, currently the largest openly-available large language model (LLM). Falcon 180B contains 180 billion parameters and outperforms GPT-3.5 on the MMLU benchmark.
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LinkedIn's Open-Source "iris-message-processor" Achieves 86.6x Faster Escalation Management Speeds
LinkedIn developed a new open-source service called "iris-message-processor" to enhance the performance and reliability of its existing Iris escalation management system. "iris-message-processor" significantly improves processing speeds, being ~4.6x faster under average loads and ~86.6x faster under high loads than its predecessor.
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AI, ML, Data Engineering News Roundup: Stable Chat, Vertex AI, ChatGPT and Code Llama
The most recent update, which covers developments through September 4, 2023, highlights significant pronouncements and accomplishments in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. Developments from Stability AI, Google, OpenAI, and Meta were among this week's significant stories.
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Weekly Update on Large Language Models: PointLLM, WALL-E, AskIt, and Jais
The most recent compilation of advanced research, inventive applications, and notable unveilings in the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs) during the week starting September 4th, 2023.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 Release Schedule, Project Babylon, Helidon 4.0-RC2, MicroProfile 6.1-RC1
This week's Java roundup for September 4th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.26, Quarkus 3.3.2, MicroProfile 6.1-RC1, MicroProfile Config 3.1-RC2, Helidon 4.0.0-M2, Open Liberty 23.0.0.9-beta, Hibernate Search 7.0.0.Beta1, Infinispan 14.0.17.Final, Eclipse Mojarra 4.0.4, JDKMon 17.0.71, JHipster 8.0.0-beta.3 and 7.9.4 and JavaZone 2023 Conference.
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Uno Platform 4.10: MAUI Embedding, Hot Restart and Lightweight Styling
This week, Uno Platform released version 4.10. Developers can now easily integrate .NET MAUI-specific controls from top 3rd-party vendors, extending this capability across iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows. Additionally, Uno Platform enables iOS app debugging with Hot Restart Support, control customization through Lightweight Styling, and more security support with Browser CSP for WebAssembly.
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Google Announces Ray Support for Vertex AI to Boost Machine Learning Workflows
Google has announced that it is expanding its open-source support for Vertex AI, its machine learning platform, by adding support for Ray, an open-source unified compute framework. This move is aimed at efficiently scaling AI workloads and enhancing the productivity and operational efficiency of data science teams.
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Navigating Open Source Integration through a DevOps Lens
Taking a DevOps perspective on open source can help to incorporate an OSS project into your environment. DevOps engineers are comfortable with using third-party integrations, and they align with the open source mindset of breaking down barriers between different groups and promoting teamwork.
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Duet AI Integration for Google Apigee API Management and Application Integration
At its Cloud Next event, Google announced the introduction of Duet AI into its cloud services Apigee API Management and Application integration to support developers in building APIs, integration flows, and extensions that connect Vertex AI or ChatGPT to real-world data through APIs. These capabilities will come in a private preview through Google Cloud’s Trusted Tester program in the coming weeks
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Rider 2023.2 with C# Updates, UX/UI Enhancements and AI Assistant
Rider 2023.2 is now generally available. This version contains improvements to C# language support. They are related to code readability and improve the programming experience. Further, there are some UI/UX enhancements. JetBrains also presented AI Assistant, which for now has limited access.
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Google Cloud Unveils AlloyDB AI: Transforming PostgreSQL with Advanced Vector Embeddings and AI
During the recent Google Cloud Next, Google announced AlloyDB AI in preview as an integral part of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, allowing developers to build generative (gen) Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications leveraging large language models (LLMs) with their real-time operational data through built-in, end-to-end support for vector embeddings.
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Delivery Hero Implements Event-Driven Architecture to Handle Baemin Growth
Baemin, a South Korean food delivery service owned by Delivery Hero, successfully navigated the challenges of rapid customer member growth by moving from a monolithic architecture to a more flexible event-driven microservices-based system.
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OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Enterprise for Business-Focus
OpenAI is introducing ChatGPT Enterprise, which provides enterprise-grade protection and privacy, limitless higher-speed GPT-4 access, extended context windows for processing longer inputs, additional data analysis capabilities, customization possibilities, and much more.
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6 Tracks Not to Miss at QCon San Francisco, October 2-6, 2023: ML, Architecture, Resilience & More!
At InfoQ’s international software development conference, QCon San Francisco (October 2-6) 2023, senior software practitioners driving innovation and change in software development will explore real-world architectures, technology, and techniques to help you solve such challenges.
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Meta Open-Sources Code Generation LLM Code Llama
Meta recently open-sourced Code Llama, a code generation LLM which is based on the Llama 2 foundation model and carries the same community license. Code Llama was fine-tuned on 500B tokens of code and is available in three model sizes ranging up to 34B parameters. In evaluations on code-generation benchmarks, the model outperformed all other open-source models and is comparable to ChatGPT.