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Open Source Multimodal.

Announcing FireLLaVA — the first multi-modal LLaVA model, trained by Fireworks AI, with a  commercially permissive license. It’s also our first open source model!https://twitter.com/lqiao/status/1748243039766925351

Be Sure To Read “This Week in AI“

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #16: Week Ending 01/19/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 16 Stories

This is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

Credits/Sources

Most of these links come from just a few incredible sources.  Please follow them:

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
• David Armano: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darmano/
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia 
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
• Borriss: https://twitter.com/_Borriss_  
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/ 
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai 
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang 
• Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/@WesRoth 

Previous Issues

• AI News: Week Ending 01/12/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/01/15/ai-news-15-week-ending-01-012-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-13-stories/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 01/05/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/01/14/ai-news-14-week-ending-01-05-2023-with-executive-summary-and-top-16-stories/  
• AI News: Week Ending 12/29/2023: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/01/07/ai-news-12-week-ending-12-29-2023-with-executive-summary-and-top-9-stories/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/22/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12222023-executive-summary-top-links-holland-frx4e 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/15/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12152023-ethan-holland-elmee 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/08/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12082023-ethan-holland-zabve 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/01/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12012023-ethan-holland-rglve  
• AI News: Week Ending 11/24/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-11242023-ethan-holland-jqvre 
• AI News: Week Ending 11/17/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-11172023-ethan-holland-ad6le  
• AI News: Week Ending 11/10/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-11102023-executive-summary-top-three-holland-yjdef/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 11/03/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethanholland_aiebh-ai-generativeai-activity-7131396231678844928-3U8M
• AI News: Week Ending 10/27/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethanholland_aiebh-ai-generativeai-activity-7127139342321356800-uBPD
• AI News: Week Ending 10/20/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-10202023-ethan-holland-eocpe 
• AI News: Week Ending 10/13/2023:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-10132023-executive-summary-ethan-holland-nq9bf 
• AI News: Week Ending 10/6/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-1062023-ethan-holland-b6uhe