Zyphra Unveils Zamba2-7B

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The NY Times sure loves throwing the book at AI startups. After taking OpenAI to court earlier this year, the news giant is now going after Perplexity. Also: Some AI companies are going big by embracing nuclear power, while others are keeping it small with tiny models that are energy efficient.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: Legal Drama, Nuclear Power, and Power Couples

• Tutorial: How to keep your data safe in ChatGPT

• Meet Zamba2-7B: Fast, efficient, and open-source

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Tennis Attire

TODAY IN AI

1. New York Times goes to war with Perplexity: The Times is leading the news industry’s crusade against generative AI startups. After suing OpenAI earlier this year, The Times has now issued a cease and desist notice to Jeff Bezos backed backed AI startup Perplexity, demanding the company stop accessing and using its content.

2. Alphabet goes nuclear: Google has struck a deal with California’s Kairos Power to buy energy from 6-7 small nuclear reactors (SMRs) to power its AI data centers. The news follows similar moves by Microsoft and Amazon. The company hopes this will help it meet the growing energy needs of AI and cloud storage while keeping a low-carbon footprint. The first reactor should be running by 2030, with the rest online by 2035.

3. Keep your friends close, and enemies closer: Rivals Intel and AMD are teaming up to create an advisory group focused on making sure their x86 chips work well with the same software. This comes as they face growing competition from Arm Holdings, whose chip architecture is gaining traction in laptops and data centers. Along with other big names like Broadcom, Dell, Lenovo, and Oracle, the goal is to “ensure that the x86 architecture continues evolving as the compute platform of choice for both developers and customers” according to AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Zyphra’s new open-source model aims to democratize Advanced AI

Zyphra has released Zamba2-7B, a state-of-the-art small language model that outperforms leading models like Mistral-7B, Llama3-8B, and Gemma-7B. Here’s what to know:

• Zamba2-7B delivers top-notch performance for on-device use, consumer GPUs, and enterprise applications that need powerful, compact models. It’s got 25% faster time to first token, improves token generation speed by 20%, and uses less memory.

• The model was trained on a massive 3 trillion token dataset with a special annealing phase, it’s open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.

Why it matters: While larger models are generally better than smaller models in terms of performance, they’re slow, expensive, and generally don’t run on small devices like laptops and phones. Smaller models make AI more accessible and affordable for smaller companies and individuals.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🍏 Mini Me: Apple just introduced the new iPad mini, now with built-in Apple Intelligence and the A17 Pro chip. Starting at $499, they’re available for pre-order now and will be coming in late October.

📚️ Watch and Learn: Adobe announced a new initiative that will bring AI literacy to an estimated 30M creators by 2030 through training, certifications, and access to its software.

💼 LinkedIn Update: Dane Stuckey, Palantir’s former Chief Information Security Officer, announced on X he’s joining OpenAI as its newest CISO.

❌ America First: The Biden administration is looking at limiting sales of advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD to Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, aiming to protect US tech dominance and address security concerns.

⚡️ Personalized Power-up: Gatorade will let you design your own squeeze bottles with the help of generative AI-created designs.

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