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The most powerful open source model yet
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Zain Kahn
July 24, 2024
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For some AI companies, it’s AGI or bust. But Meta thinks that approach doesn’t always keep the end user in mind. Its new Llama 3.1 — now considered the most powerful open source model in the world — could help prove it’s onto something.
Today’s Insights
Meta’s Llama 3.1 is here
Tutorial: Using AI to add captions to videos
Adobe’s new AI-powered design tools
Everything else you should know today
5 new AI tools to boost your productivity
AI-Generated Images: Sail away, sail away
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Meta unveils the most powerful open source AI model ever
How different could Llama 3.1 really be from 3? Well, it turns out there’s a lot hidden behind that subtle name change. Meta’s latest model now boasts 405 billion parameters, up from just 70 billion previously.
The update has made Llama an unexpected powerhouse, beating GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 across several key benchmarks. It’s reportedly the first time an open-source release can be described as a “frontier model” — meaning it’s at the cutting edge of AI capabilities and performance. Llama’s 8b and 70b models are getting an efficiency boost, too.
What makes Meta’s model different? OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet are each trying to build one LLM to rule them all. Meta says it has a different vision: It’s betting that businesses and individuals alike are craving models that they can customize to perfectly match their needs. If its prediction proves accurate, there could eventually be millions of LLMs floating around in the cloud — with each designed for very specific uses.
How it plans to get there: The biggest differentiating factor is that Meta’s model is open source, allowing developers to view and tweak its source code. After enough adjustments, those optimized versions can even outperform the original base model. The update is especially exciting for independent developers, who won’t have to wait to get their hands on the latest and greatest model: It’s already freely available to them.
Another dimension: Meta’s also building out an ecosystem so that major companies from Nvidia to Amazon can collaborate on new projects alongside smaller startups and bootstrapped developers.
A daring prediction: Thanks to the latest performance boost (plus, some fun new features like a new ‘Imagine Me’ selfie tool), Zuckerberg thinks that more people will be using Llama by the end of the year than OpenAI’s latest model. That might just be within reach, especially since visits to ChatGPT’s webpage have plummeted over the past few months. With GPT-5 looming over the horizon though, only time will tell if Zuckerberg’s forecast turns out to be accurate.
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How to add captions to your videos with AI
Go to Captions AI and log in with your account.
Upload your video, once uploaded double click on the video to open the editor.
Go to templates and choose your favorite one from the list.
You can customize the font and color accordingly.
It will auto-generate captions for you. Add words if anything is missing.
Adjust the location of captions on screen and you are good to go.
Export the video by clicking on the export button at the top right. (you need to have a Pro account to export videos)
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AI & EDUCATION
Adobe is bringing new AI tools to creators
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There’s a fear that image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney could soon reduce our need for human designers and photographers. But software giant Adobe is betting that you can’t take real-life artists entirely out of the creative process.
It’s launching a set of new AI features for its digital editing software Photoshop and Illustrator that aim to complement — but not replace — artists’ creative processes:
One new tool lets users create a shape, then fill it in with AI textures and details generated via text prompts
A newly upgraded feature called Text to Pattern lets users generate unique wallpaper patterns, then scale or customize them to their liking
Firefly Image 3, Adobe’s latest text-to-image model, is now integrated into Photoshop
Adobe’s unique approach: The company sets itself apart by claiming to only train its generative models with content in the public domain or from its own licensed library. Some artists had feared that the California-based company would start scraping their own work without permission — but Adobe recently clarified that its models are “never trained on customer content.”
How artists are adapting to AI: Designers say they have a creative spark that AI just can’t match — and that they can edit images with much more precision than LLMs are currently capable of. But that doesn’t mean they’re turning away from AI altogether. Instead, many artists are finding a sweet spot somewhere in the middle: Drafting designs independently, then using AI to tweak them or add special effects.
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Everything else you need to know today
AI Clerk: The Canadian startup Clio, which is building an AI-powered operating system for law firms, raised $900 million, putting its valuation at $3 billion.
Queue Guru: Amazon’s streaming service, Prime Video, is getting several updates, including AI-powered recommendations.
Razr Nostalgia: Tech outlet The Information reported that Apple is allegedly working on a foldable, clamshell-like iPhone that could hit store shelves as soon as 2026.
Cyber Swerve: Cloud firm Wiz has called off what would have been a historic deal with Alphabet. It said it would pursue an IPO instead.
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