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Introducing Ferret, the LLM that Apple doesn’t want everyone to know yet

Dataconomy

Apple discreetly introduced the Ferret LLM, a multimodal language model that’s anything but ordinary. Released quietly on GitHub, Ferret LLM signifies Apple’s subtle stride towards openness, beckoning developers and researchers to unravel its potential. Want to learn more?

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Apple MGIE brings expected player to AI industry

Dataconomy

The tech giant has unveiled Apple MGIE, a cutting-edge open-source AI model that enables image editing through natural language instructions. The development of MGIE is a result of a groundbreaking collaboration between Apple and a team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Guardrails AI, a startup co-founded by Seattle tech vet Diego Oppenheimer, raises $7.5M

GeekWire

GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Guardrails AI , a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies manage risks when building AI applications, announced a $7.5 The company’s open source platform lets developers build and reuse validation techniques for their AI models. and autonomous systems at Apple.

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Ex-Apple engineers raise $7.5M for new Seattle data storage startup

GeekWire

A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. XetHub aims to help developers speed up how they write and implement code for “intelligent” applications, particularly for teams that are working remotely.

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Know before you go: 6 lessons for enterprise GenAI adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, organizations like Apple, Samsung, Accenture, Microsoft, Verizon, Wells Fargo, and others 1 have banned the use of commercial large language models. Lesson 3: Open-source LLMs are limited There are 300,000 models and counting on HuggingFace.co, all of which are open-source and backed by a dedicated developer community.

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

This is no small feat given that Microsoft wasn’t even part of FAANG , the name Jim Cramer coined in 2013 for the tech stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) driving the market and consumer mindshare. Microsoft’s valuation surged from $300 billion to $3 trillion, rivaling Apple as the world’s most valuable company.

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After ‘protestware’ attacks, a Russian bank has advised clients to stop updating software

The Verge

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine draws on, consequences are being felt by many parts of the technology sector, including open-source software development. Since open-source libraries are fundamental to software development, a general loss of trust in their integrity could have knock-on effects for users in Russia and elsewhere.

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