Generative Ai News & Updates

Arcee AI releases Trinity, a 400B-parameter foundation model, as a permanently open alternative to existing models, with plans for multi-modal support and competitive API pricing.

Generative AI introduces unique forms of technical debt, including tool sprawl, prompt stuffing, opaque pipelines, inadequate human feedback systems, and insufficient stakeholder engagement, requiring new development practices to effectively manage and pay down these debts.

Dynamic Context Parallelism (Dynamic-CP) is introduced in NVIDIA Megatron Core for large-scale model training, achieving up to 1.48x speedup on real-world datasets by efficiently handling variable-length sequences.

Shayne Longpre and Sayna Ebrahimi introduce ATLAS, adaptive transfer scaling laws designed to optimize the scaling of multilingual language models.

FastGen is an open source library accelerating many-step diffusion models into one-step or few-step generators, improving video generation quality and real-time interaction.

Google Photos now allows users to describe how to transform images into videos using text prompts, joining existing 'Subtle Movement' and 'I'm feeling lucky' options.

Howden, an insurance firm, has created a director of AI productivity role to ensure effective collaboration and use of generative AI tools across the business. The role aims to bridge the gap between the data and IT teams, facilitate asset exploitation, and drive competitive advantage.

A Game Developers Conference survey finds 52% of developers believe generative AI is having a negative impact on the gaming industry, with most respondents citing concerns about layoffs and job uncertainty.

Microsoft reports its quarterly cloud revenue exceeding $50 billion, with a focus on AI efficiency improvements through 'tokens per watt and dollar' optimization.

Researchers at Google Research identified that multi-agent coordination can dramatically improve performance on parallelizable tasks but degraded performance on sequential ones. A predictive model correctly identifies the optimal coordination strategy for 87% of unseen task configurations.