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OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train its LLMs, Google engaged in same practice

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A hot potato: One of the many controversial elements surrounding generative AIs and their large language models' (LLM) training data is the potential copyright infringements. It's a topic under the spotlight once again following a report that OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4. Why didn't YouTube owner Google object? Because it did the same thing.

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AMD claims LLMs run up to 79% faster on Ryzen 8040 CPUs compared to Intel’s newest Core Ultra chips

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AMD reports that its older Ryzen mobile 7040 Phoenix and Ryzen mobile 8040 series processors outperform Intel’s Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs by up to 79% in various large language models (LLMs). The CPU manufacturer unveiled a plethora of benchmarks against Intel’s Core Ultra 7 155H CPU compared to the Ryzen 7 8740U. Both chips sport hardware-based Neural Processing Units (NPUs).

AMD put together several slides

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Opera starts offering local access to LLMs and AI chatbots

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A hot potato: The most popular AI algorithms available today require constant internet access to interact with powerful data centers. Opera Software claims it can perform the same functions using just a properly configured browser and an initial, massive download.

A recent update to Opera's development version adds the ability to download

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OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 is out as the newest version of this prominent open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library.

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 brings initial support for the C-SKY architecture, caps the maximum number of threads for GEMM / GETRF / POTRF to avoid under-utilized/idle threads, better multi-threaded POTRF performance for all platforms, various other multi-threaded enhancements, faster OpenMP thread management, and a lot of other common enhancements to this great BLAS library
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Fourteen LLMs fight it out in Street Fighter III — AI showdown finds out which models make the best street fighters.

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A new artificial intelligence (AI) benchmark based on the classic arcade title Street Fighter III was devised at the Mistral AI hackathon in San Francisco last week. The open-source LLM Colosseum benchmark was developed by Stan Girard and Quivr Brain . The game is running in an emulator , allows the LLMs to duke it out in unconventional yet spectacular fashion.

AI enthusiast Matthew Berman introduces the new beat-em-up-based large language model (LLM) tournament in the video embedded above

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Opera讓用户可下載並在本機執行、測試LLM

Opera宣佈一項新功能 ,讓用户可將大型語言模型(Large Language Model,LLM)下載到本機端執行或測試,不需再連上伺服器端。

大多數情況下,使用LLM必須將資料送到伺服器。本機端LLM則讓用户可以直接在機器上處理提示,不須資料離開電腦。


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Redict 7.3 Released As Fork Of Open-Source Redis

In addition to the Linux Foundation and others starting Valkey as a fork of the open-source Redis following the upstream move to dual source-available licensing, Redict is another new fork getting established.

Redict 7.3 released today as the first stable version of this copyleft fork of the open-source Redis 7.2.4, the last version released under the open-source licensing model.

The release announcement for Redict 7.3 does acknowledge Valkey and its support by some heavyweight vendors/organizations. As for
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Sound Open Firmware 2.9 Released With Major Performance Optimizations

Sound Open Firmware 2.9 has been released for this open-source project providing audio DSP firmware infrastructure and an adjoining SDK. This effort that started out by Intel for opening up more of their audio hardware firmware has expanded into a multi-vendor project with the likes of AMD and Mediatek also participating around this sound firmware infrastructure, audio driuvers, etc.

With Sound Open Firmware 2.9 there are "major" performance optimizations to the audio modules of Aria, Mixin/Mixout, and DRC. The release notes
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OpenAI makes ChatGPT's accessible without requiring sign ups - Reuters

OpenAI makes ChatGPT's accessible without requiring sign ups Reuters

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Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler

Adding to the Linux 6.9 features one of the changes that went under my radar is that the s390 kernel builds can now be carried out using the full LLVM compiler stack.

The Linux kernel code for IBM s390 / zSeries hardware can now be built with LLVM/Clang in addition to the long-used GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The s390 merge back during the v6.9 merge window has changes to allow the s390 kernel to be
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