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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

Leading artificial intelligence firms including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta are turning to a process called distillation in the global race to create AI models that are cheaper for consumers and businesses to adopt. Read full article Comments

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. As it turns out, these models were originally developed decades ago and many are written in Fortran !

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OpenAI competitor Mistral brings open-source language models back to the forefront

TechSpot

The startup's focus is providing language model solutions released through open-source licenses, so that AI can become "useful" to anyone with no need to spend huge amounts of money or pay to access. Mistral is a new AI company co-founded by former Google and Meta alumni valued at $260 million. Read Entire Article

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Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

TechCrunch

AI with the vision to develop a homegrown large language model for the Chinese market. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller AI Superpowers and in China for his bets on artificial intelligence unicorns, has a new venture — and a great ambition. All rights reserved.

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Google unveils open source Gemma 3 model with 128k context window

VentureBeat

Google's Gemma 3 is multimodal, comes in four sizes and can now handle more information and instructions thanks to a larger context window. Read More

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What Are Foundation Models?

NVIDIA AI Blog

Like the prolific jazz trumpeter and composer, researchers have been generating AI models at a feverish pace, exploring new architectures and use cases. In a 2021 paper, researchers reported that foundation models are finding a wide array of uses. Earlier neural networks were narrowly tuned for specific tasks. See chart below.)

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

TechCrunch

In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. “[The models] show strong ASR results in ~10 languages.