Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Previously, the stunning intelligence gains that led to chatbots such ChatGPT and Claude had come from supersizing models and the data and computing power used to train them. The big AI labs would now need even more of the Nvidia GPUs theyd been using for training to support all the real-time reasoning their models would be doing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI claims it created a custom training set that expands the size of the standard Pile by 3x. make up) facts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

For many, ChatGPT and the generative AI hype train signals the arrival of artificial intelligence into the mainstream. Just last year, a similar proposition to Qdrant called Pinecone nabbed $28 million , though Zayarni considers Qdrant’s open source foundation as a major selling point for would-be customers.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Building robots that are proficient at navigation requires an interconnected understanding of (a) vision and natural language (to associate landmarks or follow instructions), and (b) spatial reasoning (to connect a map representing an environment to the true spatial distribution of objects).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. billion parameters) — using ServiceNow’s in-house graphics card cluster.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. “In the end, the [E.U.’s] “In the end, the [E.U.’s]

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. Lambda Labs new 1-Click service provides on-demand, self-serve GPU clusters for large-scale model training without long-term contracts. billion, a 33.9% increase over 2023.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Posted by Shayne Longpre, Student Researcher, and Adam Roberts, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Language models are now capable of performing many new natural language processing (NLP) tasks by reading instructions, often that they hadn’t seen before.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The language we use September 6, 2006 I came across, in my catching up period, an article titled " Ten ways to change the world with Web 2.0 Are there actually really any fewer homeless people? Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. The open source factor. Eagle Eye app. I mage Credits: Crowd.dev. million ($2.2 million ($2.2 ” Crowd.dev analytics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

This is where bootstrapping French startup, NLPCloud.io , is plying a trade in MLOps/AIOps — or ‘compute platform as a service’ (being as it runs the queries on its own servers) — with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), as its name suggests. NLPCloud.io NLPCloud.io

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They said transformer models , large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs) and other neural networks still being built are part of an important new category they dubbed foundation models. Language models have a wide range of beneficial applications for society, the researchers wrote.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on extensive internet data have shown a promising path towards achieving this goal. Despite having internal knowledge about robot motions, LLMs struggle to directly output low-level robot commands due to the limited availability of relevant training data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. We envision, in 2007, a country where Cambodians can learn and use computers in their own language, a country that does not have to change to a new language in order to use computers!

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models. According to a survey by John Snow Labs, 60% of tech leaders’ budgets for AI language technologies increased by at least 10% in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Matt Welsh describes it as the first enterprise-focused platform-as-a-service for building experiences with large language models (LLMs). Fixie agents can be implemented in any programming language and hosted on any infrastructure, and each agent can use its own custom-tailored LLM. .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Anyspheres Cursor tool, for example, helped advance the genre from simply completing lines or sections of code to building whole software functions based on the plain language input of a human developer. Or the developer can explain a new feature or function in plain language and the AI will code a prototype of it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tanmay Chopra Contributor Share on Twitter Tanmay Chopra works in machine learning at AI search startup Neeva , where he wrangles language models large and small. Last summer could only be described as an “AI summer,” especially with large language models making an explosive entrance.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Has an open API and flexible import and export tools. Supports multiple locations or chapters, multiple currencies, multiple languages, and multiple character sets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. “Fundamentally, Explosion is a software company and we build developer tools for AI and machine learning and natural language processing. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7’s specific USP is automation.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

NeMo Guardrails helps developers integrate and manage AI guardrails in large language model (LLM) applications. One of the new microservices, built for moderating content safety, was trained using the Aegis Content Safety Dataset one of the highest-quality, human-annotated data sources in its category.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. In demos of Codex, OpenAI shows how the software can be used to build simple websites and rudimentary games using natural language, as well as translate between different programming languages and tackle data science queries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. Image Credits: Daniel Jeffries.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

. “[We are] introducing a database for AI, specifically a storage layer that helps to very efficiently store the data and then stream this to machine learning applications or training models to do computer vision, audio processing, NLP (natural language processing) and so on,” Buniatyan explained. Activeloop image database.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But as the conflict intensifies, many researchers sharing this primary material taken from social media — commonly known as open-source intelligence or OSINT — have found their Twitter accounts unexpectedly suspended. Normally when this happens it’s to smaller accounts and accounts in foreign languages”.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, Research Software Engineer, Google Research Visual language is the form of communication that relies on pictorial symbols outside of text to convey information. However, visual language has not garnered a similar level of attention, possibly because of the lack of large-scale training sets in this space.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google Research, open source models like Llama 2 from Meta, and Claude 2 and Claude 3 from Anthropic.

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InfoWorld

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google Research, open source models like Llama 2 from Meta, and Claude 2 and Claude 3 from Anthropic.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 26, 2024

In a breakthrough for the healthcare industry, researchers have unveiled Meditron, a suite of open-source large language models (LLMs), specifically designed to assist medical professionals.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 5, 2024

Machine learning frameworks like Google’s TensorFlow ease the process of acquiring data, training models, serving predictions, and refining future results. Created by the Google Brain team and initially released to the public in 2015, TensorFlow is an open source library for numerical computation and large-scale machine learning.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Bringing the capabilities of LLMs to robotics An incredible feature of large language models (LLMs) is their ability to encode descriptions and context into a format that’s understandable by both people and machines. When applied to robotics, LLMs let people task robots more easily — just by asking — with natural language.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. ‘Data-centric’ NLP With NLP one of the hot AI trends of the moment, Kern AI today announced that it has raised €2.7

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