Open Source AI News: Week Ending 02/23/2024

March 2, 2024

Mistral

“Today we are launching LoRA Land: 25 fine-tuned #mistral 7b #llm that outperform #gpt4 on task-specific applications ranging from sentiment detection to question answering. Try it: https://t.co/SE9Cykh7C5 #llm #opensource #openai Models are on @huggingface https://t.co/gN4QkT5Hxm https://t.co/rzcOKGc68e” / X – https://twitter.com/w4nderlus7/status/1759995063269212308

LoRA Land: Fine-Tuned Open-Source LLMs that Outperform GPT-4 – Predibase – Predibase – https://predibase.com/blog/lora-land-fine-tuned-open-source-llms-that-outperform-gpt-4

“new ‘mistral-next’ model on arena. in my tests, it bests gpt-4 at reasoning and has mistral’s characteristic conciseness. is this mistral-large? https://t.co/C06dkLE0Fs” / X – https://twitter.com/aidan_mclau/status/1758336996576031214

“Mistral secretly released a new model called “next”. Only available on the @lmsysorg https://t.co/2qtfMgNTap” / X – https://twitter.com/casper_hansen_/status/1758420000656797821?s=20

Gemma

“🚨 BREAKING: Google just announced Gemma. Gemma is a family of lightweight and open models developed using Gemini models technology. More info and links in the comments. https://t.co/w9zO4nRmbc” / X – https://twitter.com/dr_cintas/status/1760300684908302490

Gemma: Google introduces new state-of-the-art open models – https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/

Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family | Ars Technica – https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/google-goes-open-ai-with-gemma-a-free-open-weights-chatbot-family/

Phind

Phind – Introducing Phind-70B – closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
https://www.phind.com/blog/introducing-phind-70b

Groq/Meta

GroqChat – https://groq.com/

Other Open Source News

Why Sequoia is funding open source developers via a new equity-free fellowship | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/sequoia-open-source-fellowship-developer-funding/

Chat with Open Large Language Models – SO MUCH FUN
https://arena.lmsys.org/

UAE launches $300 million Falcon Foundation to develop open-source AI – Wamda – https://www.wamda.com/2024/02/uae-launches-300-million-falcon-foundation-develop-open-source-ai

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AI News #21: Week Ending 02/23/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 36 Stories

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