Zyphra AI has released ZAYA1-8B, a small Mixture of Experts (MoE) language model with 760 million active parameters and 8.4 billion total parameters. Trained end-to-end on AMD hardware, the model outperforms open-weight models many times its size on math and coding benchmarks, and is now available under an Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face and…
On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic introduced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker shopping for out “all the compute capability at [xAI’s] Colossus 1 information heart,” roughly 300MW that allowed Anthropic to right away increase its utilization limits. It’s an enormous deal for xAI, probably value billions of {dollars}. Extra importantly, it instantly monetized one…
Snap not has a take care of Perplexity, the corporate revealed on Wednesday as a part of its quarterly earnings report. The deal, introduced final November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine built-in instantly into Snapchat. Perplexity was set to pay Snap $400 million in money and fairness over one 12 months as a…
In this tutorial, we build a Groq-powered agentic research workflow that runs directly using Groq’s free OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint. We configure LangChain’s ChatOpenAI interface to work with Groq by setting the Groq API key and base URL, allowing us to use fast hosted models such as llama-3.3-70b-versatile for tool-based reasoning. We then connect the model…
Hasan Piker spends seven to eight hours a day, seven days a week, streaming on Twitch. The far-left political commentator got his start in 2013 interning for (and sometimes hosting) the Young Turks. More than a decade later, he’s a powerhouse newsfluencer with the number-one channel in Twitch’s Politics and Commentary category. More than 3…
A few months before Elon Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors in February 2018, he tried to recruit Sam Altman to join a “world-class AI lab” within Tesla. Musk went as far as offering the OpenAI CEO a Tesla board seat, according to emails and testimony presented in federal court on Wednesday during the Musk…
Lachy Groom, one in all Silicon Valley’s most carefully watched solo traders, determined to again Indian startup Pronto simply 20 minutes into his first assembly with its 24-year-old founder. The assembly, which befell in February by means of a mutual connection, led to Groom investing $20 million in Pronto as an extension of its Collection…
The criticism sounds acquainted. “I’m disillusioned that you’re working to include AI rubbish into the location,” one irritated individual, posting anonymously, stated in an internet message. “No-one is asking for this—we would like you to enhance the location, cease charging for brand new options.” Solely, this isn’t an everyday web consumer moaning about AI being…
Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller doesn’t think OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is untrustworthy, despite recent reporting to the contrary. On stage at The Wall Street Journal’s “Future of Everything” conference this week, Diller vouched for the AI exec, who has been accused by some former colleagues and board members of being manipulative and deceptive at…
Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX said on Wednesday that the two entities have signed an agreement for Anthropic to use computing resources from xAI’s data center in Memphis, Tennessee. It’s the latest tie up in an industry that is scrambling to find enough computers to run complex AI software. SpaceX and xAI were previously separate…
