🤖 Inside a radical new project to democratize AI

Plus: Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44 Billion Deal, Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google's core products, and more…

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Inside a radical new project to democratize AI. BLOOM was created over the last year by over 1,000 volunteer researchers in a project called BigScience, which was coordinated by AI startup Hugging Face using funding from the French government. It officially launched on July 12. The researchers… (Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review)

Melissa Heikkilä @Melissahei

Meet BLOOM — a large language model that works in 46 natural languages built by +1k AI researchers from around the world. Its creators are doing something pretty radical in AI research: putting all their work out in the open and letting anyone access it.

technologyreview.comInside a radical new project to democratize AIA group of over 1,000 AI researchers has created a multilingual large language model bigger than GPT-3—and they’re giving it out for free.

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Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44 Billion Deal. SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter sued Elon Musk on Tuesday to force the billionaire to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the company, setting the stage for a prolonged legal battle over the fate of the social media service. Mr. Musk agreed in… (Kate Conger / The New York Times)

kate conger @kateconger

Here we go: Twitter sues Elon Musk

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Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google's core products, Search and Maps. The TikTok threat to Google's business isn't just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and… (Sarah Perez / TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez @sarahintampa

Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps:

ift.ttGoogle exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps – TechCrunchThe TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and videos as the first stop on younger users’ path to discovery, a Google exec …

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Evan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of Medium. Mr. Williams, the company’s founder and a co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, said in a post that he planned to start a new holding company and research lab… (Benjamin Mullin / The New York Times)

Ben Mullin @BenMullin

Scoop: @ev is stepping down as CEO of Medium

nytimes.comEvan Williams Is Stepping Down as C.E.O. of MediumMr. Williams, the company’s founder and a co-founder of Twitter and Blogger, said in a post that he planned to start a new holding company and research lab.

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Advertisers have always stuck by Facebook. This time, it's different.. Meta's ad problems go beyond the economic slump. It's not the must-buy it used to be and advertisers are starting to shift dollars elsewhere for the first time. As a result, Meta's expected to lose market share for the first time this year. Digital… (Claire Atkinson / Business Insider)

Nicholas Carlson @nichcarlson

Facebook faces a reckoning as advertisers slash spending and abandon the platform for the first time ever @claireatki, @lmoses, and @larakiara report that Meta's ad problems go beyond the economic slump. businessinsider.com/facebook-adver… via @BusinessInsider

businessinsider.comFacebook faces a reckoning as advertisers slash spending and abandon the platform for the first time everDigital ad sellers are having a bad year. But for Facebook parent Meta Platforms, the problem is worse — and it may be one it doesn’t recover from.

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