PROMPT: Photorealistic image. A robotic hand delicately holding a small, glowing, digital brain. The background is a dimly lit laboratory with various technological gadgets and screens displaying code. The scene captures the essence of innovation, collaboration, and the future of AI and robotics. –ar 16:9 –v 6.0 –style raw

Mistral

Snowflake Partners with Mistral AI to Bring Industry-Leading Language Models to Enterprises Through Snowflake Cortex – Snowflake – https://www.snowflake.com/news/snowflake-partners-with-mistral-ai-to-bring-industry-leading-language-models-to-enterprises-through-snowflake-cortex/

Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/24087008/microsoft-mistral-openai-azure-europe

Gemma

“Beautiful work / attention to detail trying to get Gemma to finetune correctly. There are so many foot guns here to be super careful with. All of these issues don’t throw any errors, they silently make your network worse. A great example of what I wrote about in my “A Recipe for…” / X – https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1765473722985771335

Hugging Face

“After 3 years @tesla and Optimus, I am thrilled to announce that I joined Hugging Face to start an ambitious open robotics project! (open as in open-source, not as in Open AI) Looking for engineers to build real robots in Paris 🇫🇷 https://t.co/cFuNL4PVI4 🤖🤗 https://t.co/7IkunPXOpX” / X – https://twitter.com/RemiCadene/status/1765715921388056904

Hugging Face nabs Tesla scientist for open source robotics project | VentureBeat – https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-is-launching-an-open-source-robotics-project-led-by-former-tesla-scientist/

Groq

“✨In a demo of our app’s Persona Creator using @GroqInc, we’ve shattered our own speed records – achieving a 90% faster performance then GPT4. This enhancement supercharges @myaitutor, revolutionizing the educational landscape for teachers and learners alike. Welcome to the era… https://t.co/RrV8I8d9vZ” / X – https://twitter.com/tsi_org/status/1764055562071744515

AI chip startup Groq acquires Definitive Intelligence to scale its cloud platform – SiliconANGLE – https://siliconangle.com/2024/03/01/ai-chip-startup-groq-acquires-definitive-intelligence-scale-cloud-platform/

Other Open Source News

Answer.AI – You can now train a 70b language model at home – https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-03-06-fsdp-qlora.html
moondream – https://moondream.ai/

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AI News #23: Week Ending 03/08/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 38 Links

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