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Open-source AI takes the lead
PLUS: Mistral drops new on-device AI models
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Nvidia is already crushing the chipmaking game, but its models are also casually topping the LLM benchmarks and outperforming the giants.
Did the company’s latest Nemotron release just give the open-source AI movement a new champion? Let’s get into it…
In today’s issue:
Nvidia’s Nemotron outperforms leading AI models
Mistral AI unveils powerful new AI models for devices
Superstudio is your all-in-one creative AI platform
6 new AI tools & Tools on sale
New AI Job Opportunities
More AI & tech news
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NVIDIA
Image source: Nvidia
The Rundown: Nvidia quietly released a new open-sourced, fine-tuned LLM called Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, which is outperforming industry leaders like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on key benchmarks.
The details:
Nemotron is based on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model, fine-tuned by NVIDIA using advanced ML methods like RLHF.
The model achieves top scores on alignment benchmarks like Arena Hard (85.0), AlpacaEval 2 LC (57.6), and GPT-4-Turbo MT-Bench (8.98).
The scores edge out competitors like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet across multiple metrics — despite being significantly smaller at just 70B parameters.
NVIDIA open-sourced the model, reward model, and training dataset on Hugging Face, which can also be tested in a preview on the company’s website.
Why it matters: Is a smaller open-source model racing to the top? While NVIDIA’s chipmaking triumphs are well-known, more surprising are the powerhouse models the company continues to produce. With open-source foundations and advanced fine-tuning, Nemotron is showing that smaller, efficient models can compete with giants.
MISTRAL AI
Image source: Mistral AI
The Rundown: French AI startup Mistral AI just launched two new compact language models designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to edge devices like phones and laptops.
The details:
The new ‘Les Ministraux’ family includes Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B models, which have just 3B and 8B parameters, respectively.
Despite their small size, the models outperform competitors like Gemma and Llama on benchmarks, including Mistral's 7B model from last year.
Minstral 8B uses a new ‘interleaved sliding-window attention’ mechanism to efficiently process long sequences.
The models are designed for on-device use cases like local translation, offline assistants, and autonomous robotics.
Why it matters: While we await the incoming rollout of Apple Intelligence as many users’ first on-device AI experience, smaller models that can run efficiently and locally on phones and computers continue to level up. Having a top-tier LLM in the palm of your hand is about to become a norm, not a luxury.
AI TRAINING
The Rundown: Kaiber announced Superstudio, a brand new AI-powered infinite canvas, launching with Flux and Luma to help bring your creative ideas to life.
Step-by-step:
Visit www.Superstudio.app and sign up for a free account
Click the “+” in the top Navigation Bar to add a Flow to your Canvas
Create an image with the Flux Flow or Image Lab Flow
Create a video using the Luma Flow to bring your images to life
Prompt of today
Prompts:
A black-and-white image of a person standing in front of the entrance to another dimension. There is fog around them, and the scene takes place on top of some rocks with water below. The cube behind which they stand has a light inside it. The image is hyper-realistic, with high resolution, high detail, and volumetric lighting, created using Octane Render and Unreal Engine. The background is dark, with a matte painting effect. --ar 3:4
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Suno launched Suno Scenes, allowing users to generate songs using images or videos instead of just text prompts.
Google Public Sector announced $15M grants to upskill U.S. government workers in responsible AI with plans to train over 100,000 public sector employees across federal, state, and local levels.
OpenAI published research examining how ChatGPT responds to usernames with various genders, racial, and cultural backgrounds — finding minimal bias but some stereotypical responses in open-ended tasks like creative writing.
Fashion brand Lacoste is leveraging AI for anti-counterfeit technology, using a tool called Vrai AI to analyze tiny logo details that can uncover fakes at 99.7% accuracy.
Palantir CISO Dane Stuckey announced that he is joining OpenAI as the company’s new chief information security officer, helping to drive the ‘development of safe AGI for the world.’
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