X AI Releases Grok-1.5 Update: Significant Performance Improvement with Support for 128K Context Length

Microsoft Launches Free AI Skills Training to Boost Career Competitiveness

Amidst the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Microsoft is actively promoting AI literacy with its 50-day AI Skills Festival. This event is open to everyone, from beginners to professionals, offering free registration and access to a wealth of AI learning resources. The initiative aims not only to enhance public AI capabilities but also to break a Guinness World Record, making it a fun and practical event. AI is transforming the way various industries operate, particularly in daily office work. Microsoft hopes to...

Wikimedia Foundation Warns of Bandwidth Strain from AI Crawlers

The Wikimedia Foundation has warned of increasing bandwidth strain on its projects caused by AI-powered web crawlers. Representatives noted a 50% increase in bandwidth consumption for multimedia files since January 2024, largely attributed to automated programs harvesting content from Wikimedia's openly licensed image library for AI model training. Wikimedia Foundation staff members Birgit Mueller, Chris Danis, and...

Hugging Face Adds Handy Feature: One-Click Check for Compatible Models

Hugging Face, a leading open-source AI community platform, has launched a highly anticipated new feature: users can quickly see which machine learning models their computer hardware can run via platform settings. Users simply add their hardware information, such as GPU model, to their Hugging Face profile settings (located at the top right corner: Profile Icon > Settings > Local Apps and Hardware).

Study Claims OpenAI May Have Used O'Reilly Paid Books to Train AI Models Without Authorization

A new study has raised concerns that OpenAI may have used copyrighted O'Reilly Media books to train its latest AI models without permission. The study was released by the AI Disclosures Project, a non-profit organization founded in 2024 by media mogul Tim O'Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss. AI models can be viewed as sophisticated prediction engines that...

Meta's Use of Unpublished Books to Train AI Models Raises Concerns

Last week, The Atlantic launched a new tool to search LibGen, a database allegedly used by Meta to train its AI models. This has raised significant concerns due to the inclusion of numerous unpublished works. Writer Maris Kreizman, in an article for Literary Hub, revealed that her forthcoming essay collection was found in this database. Kreizman stated that her collection is...

Apple to Use Apple Maps Look Around Photos to Train AI Models

Microsoft Unveils GeoMap-Bench to Advance Intelligent Understanding of Geological Maps

In geoscience, geological maps are crucial tools for understanding the Earth's surface and subsurface structures. However, interpreting these complex diagrams requires specialized knowledge and extensive experience. To enhance intelligence in this field, Microsoft Research Asia recently introduced GeoMap-Bench, a new benchmark dataset for evaluating the performance of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in understanding geological maps. The launch of GeoMap-Bench marks a significant step forward in AI applications for geological map interpretation. Microsoft researchers, in collaboration with...

Ant Group Unveils Two Innovative MoE Large Language Models with Significantly Reduced Training Costs

Ant Group's Ling team recently published a preprint on arXiv titled "Every FLOP Matters: Scaling a 300-billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts LING model without high-end GPUs," detailing two novel large language models: Ling-Lite and Ling-Plus. These models incorporate several innovations enabling efficient training on low-performance hardware, significantly reducing training costs.

High School Student Creates AI Model Evaluation Website Using Minecraft

In today's rapidly advancing AI landscape, effectively evaluating and comparing the capabilities of different generative AI models is a significant challenge. Traditional AI benchmarking methods are increasingly showing their limitations, prompting AI developers to explore more innovative evaluation approaches. Recently, a website called "Minecraft Benchmark" (MC-Bench) has emerged, uniquely leveraging Microsoft's sandbox game Minecraft to facilitate model assessment.

OpenAI Research Lead: Certain Forms of Reasoning AI Could Have Existed 20 Years Sooner

Noam Brown, Head of AI Reasoning Research at OpenAI, recently stated in a panel discussion at NVIDIA's GTC conference that certain forms of reasoning AI models "could have existed 20 years earlier if researchers had known the right approach and algorithms." He pointed out several reasons why this research direction was overlooked. Brown recounted his experience in game AI research at Carnegie Mellon University, including Pluribus, which defeated top human professional poker players. He stated that he helped create...