In recent years, the world has witnessed the unprecedented rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which has transformed numerous sectors and reshaped our everyday lives. Among the most transformative advancements are generative models, AI systems capable of creating text, images, music, and more with surprising creativity and…
EU probes Microsoft-OpenAI and Google-Samsung AI deals
The European Union has intensified its antitrust scrutiny on AI deals, starting with high-profile collaborations between Microsoft-OpenAI and Google-Samsung. Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president for competition policy, warned that AI is “developing at breakneck speed” and revealed that multiple preliminary investigations are underway…
📝 Guest Post: Yandex develops and open-sources YaFSDP — a tool for faster LLM training and optimized GPU consumption*
A few weeks ago, Yandex open-sourced the YaFSDP method — a new tool that is designed to dramatically speed up the training of large language models. In this article, Mikhail Khrushchev, the leader of the YandexGPT pre-training team will talk about how you can organize LLM…