🤖 AI Shapes Pentagon's Future, Signal's Privacy Upgrade, Google's Gemma: AI for All
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Scale AI to set the Pentagon's path for testing and evaluating large language models. The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) tapped Scale AI to produce a trustworthy means for testing and evaluating large language models that can support — and potentially disrupt — military planning and decision-making. By Brandi Vincent via DefenseScoop
𝕏: 1/ Big announcement from @scale_AI Today: Scale will be collaborating with the US DoD and the @DODCDAO on a testing & evaluation framework for LLMs in military use. We are honored to partner on this framework. - Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang)
Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private. For nearly a decade, cybersecurity professionals and privacy advocates have recommended the end-to-end encrypted communications app Signal as the gold standard for truly private digital communications. Using it, however, has paradoxically required exposing one particular piece of private information to everyone you text or call: a phone number. Now, that's finally changing. By Andy Greenberg via WIRED
𝕏: Signal has finally introduced usernames so you can use it without giving out your phone number. This is the number one feature I have seen prevent people from using Signal for many years and I’m happy it’s here! - Eva (@evacide)
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Google Gemma: because Google doesn't want to give away Gemini yet. Google has released Gemma 2B and 7B, a pair of open-source AI models that let developers use the research that went into its flagship Gemini more freely. While Gemini is a big closed AI model that directly competes with (and is nearly as powerful as) OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the lightweight Gemma will likely be suitable for smaller tasks like simple chatbots or summarizations. By Emilia David via The Verge
𝕏: Introducing Gemma - a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models for their class built from the same research & tech used to create the Gemini models. Demonstrating strong performance across benchmarks for language understanding and reasoning, Gemma is available worldwide starting today in two sizes (2B and 7B), supports a wide range of tools and systems, and runs on a developer laptop, workstation or @GoogleCloud - Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai)
Meet 'Groq,' the AI Chip That Leaves Elon Musk's Grok in the Dust. Groq, an AI chip company, wants everyone to forget about Elon Musk's snarky chatbot with nearly the same name, Grok. Lightning-fast demos from Groq went viral this weekend, making current versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and even Grok look sluggish. Groq claims to provide “the world’s fastest large language models,” and third-party tests are saying that claim might hold up. By Maxwell Zeff via Gizmodo
𝕏: The first public demo using Groq: a lightning-fast AI Answers Engine. It writes factual, cited answers with hundreds of words in less than a second. More than 3/4 of the time is spent searching, not generating! The LLM runs in a fraction of a second. - Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_)
Electric boat startup Arc expands lineup with new plug-in sports boat. Arc is ready to make a splash with its latest electric boat model: a wake sports boat appropriately called the Arc Sport. With 226kWh of battery capacity and a 570-horsepower motor, Arc claims that the Arc Sport will have “more than double the torque of most premium wake boats.” The new model is aimed at the growing wake sports segment, which has been called the fastest-growing water sports category in the world. By Andrew J. Hawkins via The Verge
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