Newsletter Update from November 30: According to The Verge, Microsoft will join OpenAI’s board of directors as a “non-voting observer.” This will give the tech giant more insight into the organization’s internal processes, but no official voting rights on decisions. The arrangement remains unusual: Microsoft owns 49 percent of the for-profit OpenAI organization, which is …

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Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. Hugging Face has developed the highly optimized Zephyr-7B mini-language model based on Mistral 7B, an open-source model from European start-up Mistral AI. The model was refined using a …

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Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. OpenAI will reportedly deny seats on its revamped board to major investors such as Microsoft, Thrive Capital, and Khosla Ventures. The decision suggests that the company will prioritize …

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Amazon has introduced Titan Image Generator, an AI model that allows developers to create realistic, studio-quality images using natural language prompts. Aimed at enterprise users, the model can generate images with “inclusive attributes and limited distortions”, according to AWS. It offers features such as automatic image editing, inpainting, and outpainting. Developers can also customize the …

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