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Thursday 28th of March
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• 🐐 Databricks Launches DBRX: A New Standard for Open-Source LLMs

• 👀 Apple Set to Unveil Ambitious AI Strategy at WWDC 2024

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🐐 Databricks Launches DBRX: A New Standard for Open-Source LLMs

DBRX outperforms GPT-3.5, LLaMA, Mixtral, and Grok on industry benchmarks, enabling enterprises to build custom generative AI applications

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Databricks has announced the launch of DBRX, a new open-source large language model (LLM) that sets a higher bar for performance compared to established open-source models.

DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom, high-performing LLMs, allowing enterprises to build their own tailored generative AI applications without relying on closed proprietary models.

Details

• DBRX surpasses open-source LLMs like LLaMA 2, Mixtral, and Grok-1 on standard benchmarks for language understanding, programming, math, and logic

• It also outperforms GPT-3.5 on most relevant benchmarks, potentially accelerating the trend of enterprises replacing closed models with open-source alternatives

• DBRX uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture that makes it extremely fast and cost-effective to serve, while maintaining high performance

Why Should You Care?

The release of DBRX represents a significant advancement in open-source LLMs over the past year. It provides enterprises with a powerful platform to build customized AI capabilities based on their own data, without sacrificing quality or efficiency.

As more organizations seek to leverage generative AI while maintaining control over their data and IP, DBRX offers a compelling open-source solution that could drive a major shift away from closed proprietary models.

The combination of state-of-the-art performance, favorable economics, and flexibility makes DBRX an exciting development for any enterprise looking to harness the power of large language models. Source

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👀 Apple Set to Unveil Ambitious AI Strategy at WWDC 2024

iOS 18 rumored to bring major AI-powered upgrades to iPhone, Siri, iMessage and more

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Apple has announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place in person at its Cupertino campus from June 10-14, 2024. The highly anticipated keynote is expected to reveal Apple's ambitious new AI strategy and the most significant overhaul yet of the iPhone's software with iOS 18.

Details

• iOS 18 is rumored to include a revamped Siri, AI integration in iMessage, auto-generated playlists, and an AI health coach for Apple Watches

• WWDC 2024 will be held in person at Apple's headquarters, allowing developers to engage directly with Apple engineers

• Anticipation has been building for Apple's big move into AI, fueled by new partnerships, research papers and rumors

Why Should You Care?

Apple diving headfirst into AI at WWDC 2024 could be a defining moment in the company's history that puts powerful artificial intelligence capabilities into the hands of billions of iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch users around the world.

The scale of Apple's ecosystem means iOS 18's AI features may quickly become some of the most widely used AI tools. This has major implications for the AI industry and for how the average person experiences artificial intelligence in their daily digital life. Source

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