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Hugging Face Introduces SmolVLM, a 2B Model for Multimodal AI on Edge Devices
AI startup Hugging Face has released an open-source family of compact visual language models named SmolVLM. With two billion parameters, it’s built for on-device inference, which the company claims outperforms similar models with comparable GPU RAM usage and token throughputs. Three models are available at launch: SmolVLM-Base, which offers downstream fine-tuning; SmolVLM-Synthetic, a fine-tuned variant […]
Luma AI Releases Its Photon Text-to-Image Model, Unveils Dream Machine Subscription Plan
Luma AI, the startup known for Dream Machine, is introducing Photon, a new text-to-image foundation model designed for professionals, creative artists, small businesses, and educators. Boasting speeds and costs 800 percent better than comparable models, Photon aims to bring the success it found with video generation to other visual areas. Alongside the launch, Luma AI […]
Stripe Releases SDK Enabling Payment and Billing Capabilities for AI Agents
Stripe has introduced a new software development kit (SDK) to integrate its financial technology seamlessly into AI-driven workflows. With the Stripe agent toolkit, bots will be able to engage in monetary transactions, helping to earn and spend funds, provide troubleshooting, and provide bills for usage with metered billing. The new SDK supports AI agents built […]
AI Platform MindStudio Releases Self-Hosted Offering for the Enterprise
MindStudio, the enterprise-centric AI app development platform, has launched a new product called MindStudio for Enterprise, designed for companies that want more control over their infrastructure. This offering allows developers to take all the features available through the hosted SaaS platform and deploy them directly on the company’s on-premise or private cloud servers. In doing […]
AI Agents: Revolutionizing Software Development and Education
The software development landscape is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. AI agents are proving their worth in helping programmers build software more efficiently — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed recently that the company’s AI assistant, Amazon Q, has drastically reduced the work hours needed for software upgrades. The […]
GitHub: Developers Have Embraced AI, but Companies Are Slow to Catch Up
Software developers in the workplace have embraced artificial intelligence as an integral part of helping them do their jobs. A new study from GitHub reveals that 97 percent of engineers are using AI coding tools at some point. However, the companies they work for have been much slower in adopting AI tools and technologies—40 percent […]
CodeRabbit Nabs $16 Million for Its AI Code Debugger, Expand Enterprise Reach
Artificial intelligence is transforming the coding world, offering powerful tools that redefine how developers troubleshoot and optimize code. From GitHub’s Copilot Workspace and Amazon’s CodeWhisperer to Oracle’s Code Assist, Anysphere, and Cognition’s Devin, there’s no shortage of ways to churn out code to accelerate product development readily. But that’s only one part of the puzzle—teams […]
Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot, Copilot, Copilot
Satya Nadella had his “developers” moment. Microsoft held its annual Build developer conference in downtown Seattle, Washington this week. On the heels of events by OpenAI and Google, what would the Windows maker bring to the table? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Microsoft’s chief executive came out in full force to hype up […]
MindStudio by YouAI Makes it Easy to Build AI-Powered Enterprise Apps
What convinced an entrepreneur to shift his focus away from the Creator Economy and invest in artificial intelligence? Dmitry Shapiro, like many of his peers, has witnessed the transforming effect of AI on the world. It’s thanks to the proliferation of large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s PaLM, Facebook’s LLaMA, and Anthropic’s Claude. […]
Samsung Woos Developers With AI Fund, Mirroring Amazon’s Playbook
Editor’s Note: This post about Samsung launching its Q Fund was originally published on the now-defunct All Turtles blog in June 2018. You can read other articles I’ve written for that site here. We’re in a gold rush-like moment where the biggest tech companies are staking their claims to capitalize on the soaring demand for voice assistants […]