Last Week on AI — no. 39
Last week in AI: Alibaba releases Qwen 1.5, a powerful multilingual LLM. DHS forms an AI Safety Board with industry leaders. Astribot introduces advanced robotics — see their demo! Plus, OpenAI’s new research enhances LLM security, and Apple unveils efficient OpenELM models.
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Alibaba open-sourced Qwen 1.5 110B parameter version.
Context length of 32K tokens — Multilingual support, including English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.
👇🏽 Try the Demo on Hugging Face:
It performs similarly (to slightly better) across a range of LLM evaluations vs Llama-3.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board.
The 22-member board includes tech leaders OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Nvidia (NVDA.O), CEO Jensen Huang, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna (IBM.N), Adobe (ADBE.O), CEO Shantanu Narayen, Microsoft (MSFT.O), CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai (GOOGL.O), Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins (CSCO.O), , Amazon Web Services CEO (AMZN.O), Adam Selipsky and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), CEO Lisa Su.
Another Chinese firm makes his way into the AI market: Astribot. The Senzhen-based subsidiary of Stardust Intelligence (born in Dec 22) is a robotics firm focused on developing AI robot assistants.
Unparalleled agility, dexterity, and accuracy for the S1. Check their demo video!
📝 A new paper from OpenAI on prompt injection has released: The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions.
Advance robustness for prompt injections and other ways of tricking LLMs into executing unsafe actions. More details:
Last week, Apple quietly published OpenELM, a family of small, open, and on-device models, planned to run efficiently on iPhones and Macs.
They come in four sizes: OpenELM-270M, OpenELM-450M, OpenELM-1.1B, OpenELM-3B.
📝 OpenELM: An Efficient Language Model Family with Open-source Training and Inference Framework
They also presented CoreNet, a training library to train OpenELM.
OpenAI partnered with the Financial Times in a licensing agreement to enhance ChatGPT with attributed content and improve OpenAI’s models.
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