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Stability AI Launches StableLM, an Open Source ChatGPT Alternative
Stability AI Ltd. is a London-based firm that has positioned itself as an open source rival to OpenAI, which, despite its “open” name, rarely releases open source models and keeps its neural network weights — the mass of numbers that defines the core functionality of an AI model — proprietary. “Language models will form the backbone of our digital economy, and we want everyone to have a voice in their design,” writes Stability in an introductory blog post. “Models like StableLM demonstrate our commitment to AI technology that is transparent, accessible, and supportive.” Like GPT-4 — the large language model (LLM) that powers the most powerful version of ChatGPT — StableLM generates text by predicting the next token (word fragment) in a sequence. That sequence starts with information provided by a human in the form of a “prompt.” As a result, StableLM can compose human-like text and write programs.
Like other recent “small” LLMs like Meta’s LLaMA, Stanford Alpaca, Cerebras-GPT, and Dolly 2.0, StableLM purports to achieve similar performance to OpenAI’s benchmark GPT-3 model while using far fewer parameters — 7 billion for StableLM verses 175 billion for GPT-3. Parameters are variables that a language model uses to learn from training data. Having fewer parameters makes a language model smaller and more efficient, which can make it easier to run on local devices like smartphones and laptops. However, achieving high performance with fewer parameters requires careful engineering, which is a significant challenge in the field of AI. According to Stability AI, StableLM has been trained on “a new experimental data set” based on an open source data set called The Pile, but three times larger. Stability claims that the “richness” of this data set, the details of which it promises to release later, accounts for the “surprisingly high performance” of the model at smaller parameter sizes at conversational and coding tasks. According to Ars’ “informal experiments,” they found StableLM’s 7B model “to perform better (in terms of outputs you would expect given the prompt) than Meta’s raw 7B parameter LLaMA model, but not at the level of GPT-3.” They added: “Larger-parameter versions of StableLM may prove more flexible and capable.”
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Open Channel: What’d You Think of Evil Dead Rise?
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Fans of Sam Raimi different parts of his filmography the like, but the Evil Dead series is often one of the most talked about. While the Ash vs. Evil Dead TV show from 2015 and last year’s video game have helped keep the franchise alive in pop culture, alongside the series’ longtime fans, Fede Alvarez’s 2013 reboot…
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Good news road brawlers! Capcom held a livestream for the upcoming Street Fighter 6 last night – hosted by lifelong fan Lil’ Wayne – and it delved deep into the game’s customisable avatars, post-launch support, and open-world World Tour mode. Oh, there’s also a demo available next week that’s more focused on singleplayer stuff.
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Blizzard has announced another open beta for Diablo 4 , the purpose of which is to test the server infrastructure.
The open beta, dubbed “Server Slam” by Blizzard, takes place May 12-14 and starts at 12pm PT, 3pm ET, 8pm BEST, and 9pm CEST. During this time, everyone on PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4 can join – you can even play couch co-op for consoles. Cross-play and cross-progression for all platforms will be enabled.
It’s all to test the servers to ensure the game’s release goes as smoothly as possible.
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