Imagine searching for a crucial piece of information in a traditional search engine, only to be overwhelmed with thousands of irrelevant results. This limitation is especially problematic in critical industries like nuclear power, where precision and reliability are paramount. Enter sentence embeddings—a powerful, yet often overlooked technology that is set to transform how we access … continue reading
For the past two years, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been working on developing a definition for Open Source AI that the industry can use to determine which models are actually considered open, and it has a new draft of the definition to share as it nears the final release in October. According to … continue reading
GitHub’s annual developer survey, which it launched for the first time last year, shows that a majority of developers (97%) have used an AI coding tool at some point, but perceptions of the technology vary country to country. For its survey, GitHub surveyed 2,000 developers from the U.S., Brazil, Germany, and India, with an equal … continue reading
Developers will now be able to fine-tune GPT-4o to get more customized responses that are suited to their unique needs. With fine-tuning, GPT-4o can be improved using custom datasets, resulting in better performance at a lower cost, according to OpenAI. For example, developers can use fine-tuning to customize the structure and tone of a GPT-4o … continue reading
For quite some time, discussion around the dangers of deepfakes were mostly rooted in the hypothetical — focusing on the question of how these tools could be used to cause harm, rather than real-world instances of misuse. However, it wasn’t long before some of those fears became realities. In January, a number of New Hampshire … continue reading
Codeium has announced a new AI assistant called Cortex that uses complex reasoning capabilities to solve difficult coding problems. Rather than enabling smaller, individual tasks such as autocomplete or code completion like existing code assistants, Cortex supports large scale reasoning, code generation, reviews, and knowledge transfer, with greater accuracy, lower latency, and reduced costs. According … continue reading
Anthropic has introduced a new feature to some of its Claude models that will allow developers to cut down on prompt costs and latency. Prompt caching allows users to cache frequently used context so that it can be used in future API calls. According to the company, by equipping the model with background knowledge and … continue reading
Google is trying to make its AI assistant Gemini more useful by adding a conversation mode called Gemini Live, similar to how conversations in ChatGPT work. Gemini Live has a voice mode, so that users can speak their questions out loud rather than typing. This voice mode works even when the app is in the … continue reading
The Linux Foundation is making it easier for developers to find open-source AI models by hosting the Open Model Initiative (OMI). The OMI was first launched earlier this summer by Invoke, CivitAI, and Comfy Org as a way to help creators find models that don’t have restrictive licenses. “From the beginning, we have believed that … continue reading
With businesses uncovering more and more use cases for artificial intelligence and machine learning, data scientists find themselves looking closely at their workflow. There are a myriad of moving pieces in AI and ML development, and they all must be managed with an eye on efficiency and flexible, strong functionality. The challenge now is to … continue reading
A few weeks ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Dioptra, an open source tool for testing the trustworthiness of AI models. Dioptra offers a common platform for assessing models throughout their life cycle, from when they are being developed to when they are acquired by other parties who want to then … continue reading
Every year, Forrester puts together a list of 10 emerging technologies to watch. This year’s list was released in June, and in the most recent episode of our podcast, What the Dev?, we were able to sit down with Brian Hopkins, VP of Emerging Tech Portfolio at Forrester, about the list. Here is an edited … continue reading
