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What to decode:

• 🆚 RedPajama vs. Big Tech: The Open-Source Showdown

• 🔥 Adobe adds Firefly to video: Edit videos using AI

• ♾️ Meta releases DINOv2: A new image recognition model

• 🤖 MiniGPT-4 has beaten OpenAI to a chatbot that can describe images

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 🆚 RedPajama vs. Big Tech

Move over Big Tech, there's a new rival in town, and it goes by the name of RedPajama. This open-source initiative is taking the fight straight to the big dogs with their three-step plan to produce fully open-source, reproducible, leading language models. And they've just completed stage 1.

RedPajama has produced a 1.2-trillion-word dataset, which mimics that used to train LLaMA, and with fully-trained base models set to be released in a matter of weeks, it won't be long before they're putting Big Tech to the test.

But that's not all - RedPajama is also making progress on instruction-tuning with OpenChatKit. It's clear that they mean business, and the tech world is already starting to take notice. Who knows, maybe we'll be seeing RedPajama's name up in lights alongside the likes of Google and Microsoft in the not-too-distant future. Watch this space!

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 🔥 Adobe adds Firefly to video

Adobe, the creative software giant, has taken the world by storm with their latest offering - Firefly. This innovative AI image generator uses Adobe's own stock images, ensuring that it won't infringe on any other creators' existing work. Now, Adobe has taken it to the next level by adding AI-powered video tools to Firefly, which allow users to manipulate and enhance their videos with ease.

Firefly's video capabilities are impressive and include everything from AI color corrections to motion graphics generation, matching B-roll footage, and even auto-generated storyboards and previsualizations. With these tools, video editing has never been easier. All users need to do is use simple text commands to enhance, manipulate, and edit their videos with the help of Firefly's AI-powered video tools.

The addition of Firefly's video capabilities is sure to be a game-changer for content creators, making video editing faster, simpler, and more efficient. Whether you're a professional videographer or a content creator, Firefly's video tools are sure to revolutionize the way you edit your videos. So, if you're looking to take your video editing game to the next level, look no further than Adobe's Firefly.

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♾️ Meta Releases DINOv2

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has done it again, folks! The social media giant-turned-tech conglomerate has just announced the release of DINOv2, a powerful image recognition model designed to take computer vision to the next level. This AI model boasts the ability to identify individual objects within images and video frames with greater accuracy than ever before.

But what does this mean for the rest of us? Well, according to Meta, DINOv2 has a wide range of real-world applications. For example, the company recently collaborated with the World Resources Institute to map forests on a tree-by-tree basis across entire continents. With DINOv2's advanced object recognition capabilities, this kind of project can be executed more efficiently and effectively than ever before.

Meta AI's recent releases, including Segment Anything and Animated Drawings, have all been impressive in their own right. But with the release of DINOv2, it's clear that the company is on a hot streak. Who knows what other groundbreaking technologies they have in store for us in the near future? For now, we'll just have to keep our eyes peeled and stay tuned.

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 🤖 MiniGPT-4 beats open AI

It's hard to believe, but King Abdullah University researchers have accomplished a feat even faster than OpenAI. They have introduced a chatbot function that OpenAI has long promised - the capacity to address questions relating to specific images.

This feature, named MiniGPT-4, is founded on BLIP-2 and a LLaMA-based language model. If you're keen to learn more, they are set to launch a 7B parameter model that may pique your interest. It seems these days, you can't read anything about AI without being reminded of those elongated necks and unusual faces!

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FASCINATING FINDS

THE CODE IDEA OF THE DAY

A Platform 👨‍💻

Problem: Many businesses, both small and large, struggle with providing adequate customer support to their clients. They may not have the resources to hire a team of dedicated customer support representatives or may struggle to provide round-the-clock support. This can lead to frustration for customers and ultimately hurt the business's reputation and bottom line.

Solution: fully AI-powered customer support service that can provide support through chat and eventually phone calls. This service aims to provide a cost-effective solution for businesses that may not have the resources to hire a team of dedicated customer support representatives or struggle to provide 24/7 support. By leveraging artificial intelligence, this service can provide quick and accurate responses to customer inquiries, improving the overall customer experience and potentially boosting customer retention rates.

SOURCE: Me (Tyler Gibbs)

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