Recently, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released Molmo, a brand new open source multimodal AI model family that performs exceptionally well, even surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude 3.5, and Google's Gemini 1.5 in several third-party benchmark tests. Molmo not only accepts user-uploaded images for analysis but has also been trained using '1000 times less data than its competitors.'

All Hands AI has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Menlo Ventures, aiming to develop a model-agnostic open source AI agent to help developers reduce tedious tasks like writing unit tests, managing dependencies, and maintaining documentation, allowing them to focus more on creative work. Their target project, OpenHands, has already garnered over 30,000 stars on GitHub and has more than 150 contributors, positioning itself as a "smart partner" for developers.

Meta has released a mid-term update showing a significant increase in the adoption rate of its Llama series models, especially after the launch of Llama 3.1. The downloads of the Llama models on the Hugging Face platform are approaching 350 million, a tenfold increase from last year, attracting well-known companies such as Zoom, Spotify, AT&T, and Goldman Sachs. The development of open-source AI not only approaches the performance of closed models but also achieves widespread application at the enterprise level.

Alibaba's cloud computing division has released the new AI model Qwen2-VL, which possesses strong capabilities to understand visual content. It can analyze videos lasting up to 20 minutes in real-time, summarize the video content, answer related questions, and provide online chat support. In third-party benchmark tests, Qwen2-VL surpassed several metrics including Meta's Llama 3.1, OpenAI's GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku, and Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash.

Zuckerberg and Ek jointly criticized the EU AI regulations, arguing that these complex rules hinder the development of open source AI in Europe and limit innovation and developer vitality. They called for simplification and unification of regulations, emphasizing that open source AI creates a fair competitive environment. Europe should leverage its single diverse market advantage to avoid missing out on technological development opportunities. Although the EU legislation exempts open source AI, the conditions limit its potential, and the transparency requirements for datasets have little impact on open source AI. Zuckerberg also stated that he is willing to release a value of 10 if it is safe and beneficial to the public.

Microsoft has released Phi-3.5-vision, a lightweight, multimodal open source AI model designed for processing textual and visual inputs, supporting a context length of 128K. This model is suitable for resource-constrained environments and features capabilities such as image understanding, OCR, chart parsing, and multi-image summarization, showcasing excellent performance and low latency. Comprised of 4.2 billion parameters, it is trained with high-quality data to ensure performance and privacy. It includes three models: lightweight AI, expert mix, and multimodal model, all demonstrating outstanding performance in image and video processing benchmarks.

Melodisco is an open-source AI music player that focuses on personalized music experiences. It features a collection of 300,000 AI songs, with capabilities for AI music generation, smart recommendations, and diverse playlist management. Users can explore charts like the trending, popular, and new release charts, and use random roaming to discover new songs. It supports song favorites, recent play history, and import and share functionalities. In terms of player component design, it offers sequential, random, and single-loop play modes, along with progress and volume control. It integrates the Stripe payment system and supports Vercel and Dock.

Clapper is an open-source video editing tool that integrates advanced technologies like StabilityAI, ElevenLabs, Real-ESRGAN, and ChatGPT. Key features include AI-driven story visualization for quick video story generation, flexible combination of elements like characters and scenes, an interactive editing process with an intuitive interface, and an upcoming director mode for comprehensive control over video production. A major advantage is its o....

LG's AI research department has launched Exaone 3.0, South Korea's first open-source AI model, which features 7.8 billion parameters. The model aims to accelerate AI research and build a robust AI ecosystem. It performs exceptionally well in Korean and English tasks. Through its open-source strategy, LG demonstrates its technological prowess and may create new revenue streams in cloud computing and AI services. To compete in the global AI landscape, LG is similar to companies like Alibaba, driving cloud business growth through open-source AI models.

At the 51st SIGGRAPH conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg engaged in a fireside chat discussing the future of artificial intelligence and simulation. During their conversation, Huang praised Meta's open source large model strategy and emphasized the importance of open source for AI development. They showcased their friendship and shared vision for advancing the industry through a creative 'coat swap' ceremony.

In the realm of artificial intelligence, the competition between open-source and closed-source models has never ceased. The recent release of Meta AI's Llama 3.1 model, however, seems to have drawn a watershed line in this contest. This is not merely the launch of a new model; it is a sign of the maturation of open-source AI, heralding the arrival of a new era.Llama 3.1, developed by Meta AI's team, is a new generation of large-scale language models. In over 150 benchmark tests, its 405B paramet

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the official release of Llama3.1, stating that it could be a significant milestone in the open-source AI field. Meta has introduced three different sizes of Llama3.1 models, with the most notable being the large model with 405 billion parameters. Zuckerberg claims it to be the "most advanced open-source model" currently available, and it can even compete with leading closed-source models in certain areas.In addition to the 405 billion parameter model,

Recently, artificial intelligence expert Andrew Ng has open-sourced a brand new AI translation project called 'Translation Agent'. This project features a highly controllable translation workflow, allowing users to easily adjust prompts to set the tone, regional characteristics, and import glossaries to ensure consistency in translation terminology. This flexibility and customization will enable AI agents to have a broader application in the field of machine translation.

FlowGPT has completed a new financing round of $10 million in Pre-A funding. The entrepreneurial idea for FlowGPT was officially born at the end of 2022. FlowGPT has now attracted over 4 million monthly active users. The platform allows users to interact with and rate AI applications. The FlowGPT team continues to pursue an open source strategy and plans to expand its mobile products and multimodal prompts.

The open-source voice cloning tool OpenVoice, developed in collaboration with MIT, Tsinghua University, and Canadian AI startup MyShell, has garnered attention. OpenVoice employs a simple and efficient method to almost instantly clone a user's voice, significantly reducing computational resource consumption. It boasts powerful features that provide detailed control options, including tone, emotion, rhythm, and pauses, generating personalized voice clones. MyShell's business model plans to offer monthly subscriptions through a web application, along with promotion fees for third-party bot creators and artificial intelligence services.

ZhiYuan Research Institute has released the open source AI hardware evaluation engine FlagPerf v1.0. FlagPerf evaluation metrics include functional correctness, performance, resource usage, and ecosystem compatibility, supporting various training frameworks and inference engines. Multiple testing environments rigorously evaluate the participating code to ensure fair and just results. The testing code has been open-sourced, and the testing process and data are reproducible.

AI organization LAION and leading AI developers suggest that the EU encourage the use of open source AI models. Open source AI models offer greater safety, accountability, replicability, and robustness. LAION has launched the PyTorch codebase OpenLM for training medium-sized language models. The OpenLM model outperforms similar open source models. LAION urges EU regulatory efforts to promote the application of open source AI models.