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‘I find it a pretty big turnoff’ — Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks closed source AI competitors are harming the industry
By George Fitzmaurice published
News Mark Zuckerberg framed Meta as the leading open source alternative on the AI market in a recent interview
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Meta delays plans to train AI using European user data
By Emma Woollacott published
News Meta won't continue with plans to train AI models using European user data following backlash from privacy groups
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Mistral just launched its own competitor to GitHub Copilot
By Ross Kelly published
News The launch of Codestral marks Mistral AI’s first foray into the coding assistant market, pitting it against major platforms like GitHub Copilot and Code Llama
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Firms have paid out more than $4.8 billion in GDPR fines since 2018
By Emma Woollacott published
News Tech giants headquartered in Ireland attract the biggest GDPR fines
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Inside Google’s plan to use data center waste heat to warm nearby homes and businesses
By Steve Ranger published
News Google said waste heat will be reused as part of $1 billion investment to support AI growth
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Meta's Workplace productivity platform was always destined to fail
By Ross Kelly published
Opinion Meta’s attempts to dabble in the workplace productivity software space have fallen flat amidst a sharpened focus on AI
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Meta's Llama 3 will force OpenAI and other AI giants to up their game
By George Fitzmaurice published
News The new model pushes open source as a serious contender in the AI space, and proprietary models might soon find themselves playing catch-up
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Anthropic researchers just uncovered a new LLM jailbreaking technique
By Ross Kelly published
News LLM jailbreaking techniques have become a major worry for researchers amid concerns that models could be used by threat actors to access harmful information
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Meta unveils two new GPU clusters used to train its Llama 3 AI model — and it plans to acquire an extra 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of 2024 to meet development goals
By George Fitzmaurice published
News Meta is expanding its GPU infrastructure with the help of Nvidia in a bid to accelerate development of its Llama 3 large language model
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