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Jamba 1.5 models mix transformers with Mamba: Plus, Ideogram’s new image model with a new API

The two new Jamba models use a hybrid solid state model-transformer architecture, feature an effective 256,000-token context window, and outperform competitors in their size

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OpenAI’s unreleased ChatGPT detector: Plus, DeepMind’s new robot plays table tennis

ByteDance’s China-only video app, U.K. watchdog probes Anthropic’s deals, New Writer models for medicine and finance, SambaNova’s speedy inference platform

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xAI releases new Grok-2 LLM to paid users of X: Plus, Google’s Imagen 3 rivals top text-to-image models

A new automated paper-writing system from Sakana AI, GitHub’s Autofix uses GPT-4 to find and plug security holes, Google’s new AI voice assistant...

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GPT-4o drops prices, supports JSON schemas: Plus, Figure’s new robot features sophisticated hands

Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer

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A new 3D image model from NVIDIA and Shutterstock: Plus, the U.S. government warms to open-source

Meta’s powerful new real-time object segmentation model, Google expands its open-source Gemma family, how to measure models’ resistance to harmful prompts...

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Mistral unveils most capable model yet: Plus, Udio 1.5 features audio-to-audio and mixable stems

DeepSeek’s inexpensive V2 model gets a new license, Stable Video, now in four dimensions, how Runway trained its video model, Microsoft makes Phi-3 easier to fine-tune and deploy

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Mistral’s new model ditches transformers: Plus, can AI transform the agriculture industry?

Groq’s new tool use models, another AI safety and security industry group, Microsoft’s new research applying LLMs to spreadsheets, proposed safeguards to protect open AI models

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AI can guess what you are seeing: Plus, a new tool to speed up attention mechanisms for LLMs

A company that mines data to mine critical minerals; Doctors use chatbots to deal with insurers; A travel agent powered by AI; An LLM health coach backed by OpenAI

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Apple and Microsoft Won’t Observe OpenAI’s Board: Plus, Groq sports a speedy new web-based chatbot

AWS’s new co-code app developer; How Alibaba is using AI to expand abroad; A chatbot grounded in climate reporting; Traffic numbers for the top AI sites

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Brazil puts the brakes on Meta: Plus, powerful jailbreak exploits AI models’ safety features

Robots trained on audio, not just vision; Gen-3 Alpha video model now available; French regulator calls out Nvidia; Waymo opens widely in San Francisco

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Cloning dead celebrities’ voices: Plus, Amazon absorbs most of Adept

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. Today’s edition includes: ElevenLabs gains rights to use dead celebrities’ voices for narration, VALL-E 2, Microsoft’s speech cloning tool, LangChain introduces LangGraph Cloud...

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Google’s mid-sized Gemma 2 competes with Llama 3 and other open giants: Plus, ESM3’s new model can engineer proteins’ sequence, structure, and function

Twice a week, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. Today’s edition includes: Mars5, an open source voice cloning tool, a new study on the most common forms of AI misuse...