Issue 41 27th February 2024

Highlights

Introducing Mistral-Large on Azure in partnership with Mistral AI | Microsoft Azure Blog

Today, we are announcing a multi-year partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI, a recognized leader in generative artificial intelligence. Both companies are fueled by a steadfast dedication to innovation and practical applications, bridging the gap between pioneering research and real-world solutions.

Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety

If you ask Gemini, Google’s flagship GenAI model, to write deceptive content about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, it will, given the right prompt. Ask about a future Super Bowl game and it’ll invent a play-by-play. Or ask about the Titan submersible implosion and it’ll serve up disinformation, complete with convincing-looking but untrue citations.

Stable Diffusion 3 — Stability AI

Announcing Stable Diffusion 3 in early preview, our most capable text-to-image model with greatly improved performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and spelling abilities.

OpenAI vs Open-Source Multilingual Embedding Models

Choosing the model that works best for your data

Advancing AI responsibly

Artificial intelligence has the potential to be a powerful equalizing force, helping people, institutions, and nations make strides forward in ways and at speeds previously unimaginable. We are already seeing AI used to make essential government services more accessible, witnessing major breakthroughs in disease detection and prevention, and leveraging AI to identify and prevent the effects of natural disasters and climate change. All this is happening in the early days of AI being more widely available, especially generative AI.

Video

Why AI development must be inclusive and accessible to all - Global AI Notes

In this talk, we'll share the work that the Azure AI Studio team has done to ensure our experience is accessible and inclusive for all developers, and walk through a case study of how accessible tooling enabled Kartik to ship the new Microsoft Ask Accessibility chatbot on the Azure AI stack. Join Kartik Sawhney and Ailsa Leen in a discussion about the importance of inclusion in who gets to build with AI.

Silicon Minds, Human Hearts - Teaser

Crafting a Future of Synergy in the AI Era A series that zooms into the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with daily human life. It features interviews with leading AI experts, thinkers, and tech innovators, offering viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the advances in AI.

Articles

Vision Transformers, Explained

E = Encoding(dim=token_len, num_heads=heads, hidden_chan_mul=1.5, qkv_bias=False, qk_scale=None, act_layer=nn.GELU, norm_layer=nn.LayerNorm) The hidden_chan_mul and act_layer parameters define the Neural Network module components.

Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader

A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading experience that not only leverages AI to summarize the news, but aims to do so […]

Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI

US film and TV mogul says he has paused his plans, having seen demonstrations of OpenAI video generator Tyler Perry has paused an $800m (£630m) expansion of his Atlanta studio complex after the release of OpenAI’s video generator Sora and warned that “a lot of jobs” in the film industry will be lost to artificial intelligence.

Smart glove teaches new physical skills

Adaptive smart glove from MIT CSAIL researchers can send tactile feedback to teach users new skills, guide robots with more precise manipulation, and help train surgeons and pilots.

FlowGPT is the wild west of GenAI apps

A few months ago, OpenAI launched the GPT Store, a marketplace where people can create and list AI-powered chatbots customized to perform a number of tasks (e.g. coding, answering trivia questions and so on). The GPT Store is powerful, to be sure. But using it requires using OpenAI’s models and no others, which some chatbot […]

The Illustrated Stable Diffusion

Translations: Chinese, Vietnamese. (V2 Nov 2022: Updated images for more precise description of forward diffusion. A few more images in this version) AI image generation is the most recent AI…

Leverage OpenAI's Text-Embedding-3 Large Model in Azure AI Search

Unlock the full potential of Azure AI Search using OpenAI's new text-embedding-3-large model. Explore steps for setup, embedding, and saving storage.

Upcoming events

Global AI Bootcamp 2024 | March 2024

The Global AI Bootcamp is an annual event that occurs worldwide, where developers and AI enthusiasts can learn about AI through workshops, sessions, and discussions. Local chapters of the Global AI Community host the events in various locations across the globe. This year, the bootcamp will take place in the full month of March 2024.