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Microsoft Announces Copilot for Azure, an AI Assistant for IT Professionals
Microsoft has introduced Copilot for Azure, an AI-based tool designed to enhance the management and operation of cloud infrastructure and services. It leverages the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with Azure's Resource Model to provide a comprehensive understanding and handling of Azure's functionalities, spanning from cloud services to edge technology.
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Meta and IBM Lead Formation of AI Alliance to Drive Open-Source Innovation
A new consortium, led by Meta and IBM, has been formed to support open-source AI. The AI Alliance comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic, with the goal of collaboratively developing tools and programs to facilitate open development.
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JetBrains Launches AI Assistant Integrated in its 2023.3 Release IDEs
JetBrains refreshes all of its IDEs in the last release of the year and promotes its integrated AI Assistant out of preview into general availability for paying customers. Besides its strong integration with the IDEs, JetBrains AI Assistant tries to stand out thanks to its support for multiple LLMs.
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Microsoft's Orca 2 LLM Outperforms Models That Are 10x Larger
Microsoft Research released its Orca 2 LLM, a fine-tuned version of Llama 2 that performs as well as or better than models that contain 10x the number of parameters. Orca 2 uses a synthetic training dataset and a new technique called Prompt Erasure to achieve this performance.
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Google Launches New Multi-Modal Gemini AI Model
On December 6, Alphabet released the first phase of its next-generation AI model, Gemini. Gemini was overseen and driven by its CEO, Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind. Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding), one of the most popular methods to test the performance of language models.
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Microsoft Integrates Copilot with Azure Quantum Elements for Advancing Scientific Research
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft demonstrated the advantages of combining AI and Azure Quantum Elements, a suite of services and tools for quantum chemistry and materials science. With the integration of Copilot, the new solution allows researchers to explore more materials, speed up chemistry simulations, and experiment with existing quantum hardware.
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Amazon Unveils Titan AI Image Generator
Amazon unveiled Titan Image Generator, currently in preview for AWS customers on Bedrock, Amazon's AI development platform. As a member of Amazon's Titan family of generative AI models, Titan Image Generator has the capability to generate new images based on a text description or customize existing images.
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Stability AI Open-Sources Video Generation Model Stable Video Diffusion
Stability AI released the code and model weights for Stable Video Diffusion (SVD), a video generation AI model. When given an input image as context, the model can generate 25 video frames at a resolution of 576x1024 pixels.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2023: Amazon Q, Frugal Architectures, Database Upgrades
The 12th edition of re:Invent has just ended in Las Vegas. As expected, artificial intelligence was a key topic of the conference, with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, a new type of generative AI-powered assistant, the main focus of Adam Selipsky’s keynote.
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AWS Announces Amazon Q, a New Generative AI–Powered Assistant
AWS has introduced Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant designed for professional applications. This assistant is configurable to align with your company's requirements, facilitating conversations, issue resolution, content generation, and action-taking through the utilization of information present in your code, enterprise systems, and data repositories.
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Meta Announces Generative AI Models Emu Video and Emu Edit
Meta AI Research announced two new generative AI models: Emu Video, which can generate short videos given a text prompt, and Emu Edit, which can edit images given text-based instructions. Both models are based on Meta's Emu foundation model and exhibit state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks.
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Microsoft Brings AI to Logic Apps (Standard) with Workflow Assistant in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced a workflow assistant for Logic Apps (standard), the company’s integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering in public preview. With the assistant, developers have a chat interface that provides access to Azure Logic Apps documentation and best practices without requiring them to navigate documentation or search online forums.
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Microsoft Debuts Custom Chips for Cloud and AI: Azure Maia AI Accelerator and Azure Cobalt CPU
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft introduced two custom-designed chips for their cloud infrastructure: Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator (Athena), optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) tasks and generative AI, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt CPU, an Arm-based processor tailored to run general-purpose compute workloads on the Microsoft Cloud.
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Anthropic Announces Claude 2.1 LLM with Wider Context Window and Support for AI Tools
According to Anthropic, the newest version of Claude delivers many “advancements in key capabilities for enterprises—including an industry-leading 200K token context window, significant reductions in rates of model hallucination, system prompts and our new beta feature: tool use.” Anthropic also announced reduced pricing to improve cost efficiency for our customers across models.
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KubeCon NA 2023: Ishan Sharma on Real-Time Generative AI for Gaming Apps Running on Kubernetes
Kubernetes provides a great platform for gaming applications using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for both game development and gameplay. Ishan Sharma from Google spoke at the recent KubeCon CloudNativeCon NA 2023 Conference about real-time GenAI inference integrated with distributed game servers running on Kubernetes.