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Tag: Open Source
Meta Launches Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, Open-Weight Multimodal Models That Outperform GPT-4 and Gemini
Meta has released the first two models in its new Llama 4 family, which it claims will power “more personalized multimodal experiences.” On Saturday, the company introduced Llama 4 Scout and Maverick, both with 17 billion active parameters. Their debut follows a report that Meta delayed Llama 4’s launch multiple times after failing to meet […]
Ai2’s Tulu 3 405B Pushes Open-Weight AI Forward, Challenging DeepSeek, OpenAI Models
The nonprofit formerly known as the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has released a much more considerable variation of its Tulu 3 model. In addition to the 8 billion and 70 billion parameter versions introduced in November 2024, there’s now a 405 billion option. Ai2 calls this iteration the “first application of fully open post-training […]
Ai2 Unveils OLMo 2, Calling It The Most Advanced Fully Open Language Model Yet
In February, Ai2 released OLMo, its “truly open-source” large language model, as a suitable alternative to closed and restrictive models. Nine months later, the nonprofit research institute introduced its successor, OLMo 2, describing it as the “best fully open language model to date” comparable to Meta’s Llama 3.1. This family features two variations: a 7B […]
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 […]
Ai2 Releases Tulu 3 to Unlock the Open-Source Post-Training Black Box
Ai2 has introduced an addition to its Tulu suite of models to level the playing field between open-source and proprietary closed models in post-training performance. Coming nearly a year after its predecessor, Tulu 3 aims to help models avoid forgetting core skills when undergoing specialized training, such as following instructions, coding, doing math, having knowledge […]
Foursquare Releases Its Places Data as Open Source
Foursquare has announced a new contribution to the open-source community. The location-based service company is making its foundational open data set, Open Source Places, generally available. Containing more than 100 million global places of interest (POI), it can be used commercially under the Apache 2.0 license framework. “As we enter a new frontier of technology […]