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Jan 31 (Reuters) - OpenAI, the creator of the popular chatbot ChatGTP, has released a software tool to identify text generated by artificial intelligence, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.

ChatGPT is a free program that generates text in response to a prompt, including articles, essays, jokes and even poetry, which has gained wide popularity since its debut in November, while raising concerns about copyright and plagiarism.

The AI classifier , a language model trained on the dataset of pairs of human-written

Open Source LLM

LLVM 16.0-rc1 Brings New AMD & Intel CPU Support, Zstd Debug Sections, C++17 By Default

Phoronix | Jan. 28, 2023, 5:29 a.m. | Original

Following the LLVM 16.0 feature freeze and code branching earlier this week, LLVM 16.0.0-rc1 is now available as the first of at least three planned release candidates.

LLVM/Clang 16 is bringing many new features including initial AMD Zen 4 support (still missing the tuning), Intel Emerald Rapids support , Intel Meteor Lake support, Intel Sierra Forest and Grand Ridge support , an Xtensa architecture back-end , JIT support for OpenMP offloading , -Ofast and -ffast-

Open Source LLM

LLVM 16.0 Feature Development Ends - Aiming For Early March Compiler Release

Phoronix | Jan. 25, 2023, 5:55 a.m. | Original

LLVM 16 feature development is now officially over with the code having been branched, LLVM 17.0 development now happening with the mainline code, and LLVM 16.0 stable hoping to officially release in early March.

Overnight LLVM 16.0 has been branched with this code now moving onto the bug-fixing phase. The LLVM 16.0-rc1 release is expected later this week with at least two release candidates expected during the month of February. Currently the LLVM developers are hoping to

Open Source LLM

Mold 1.10 Released With Few New Features For This High Speed Linker

Phoronix | Jan. 20, 2023, 6:05 a.m. | Original

Mold 1.10 was released today by lead developer Rui Ueyama as the newest version of this high speed linker that has been outperforming GNU Gold and LLVM LLD.

Mold 1.10 now optimizes thread-local variable accesses in shared libraries when the library is linked with the "-z nodlopen" option. This optimizing for thread-local variable accesses in shared libraries is implemented for x86_64 and s390x architectures.

Over on the AArch64 side, Mold is now

Open Source LLM

Intel Posts Linux Patches For Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)

Phoronix | Jan. 14, 2023, 7 a.m. | Original

An interesting patch series posted by Intel this week for the Linux kernel is working on implementing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) as a feature coming with future processors to help fend off speculative address accesses across
user and kernel mode.

The LASS patch series sums up the new feature as:

LASS works in 64-bit mode only and partitions the 64-bit virtual address space into two halves:

1. Lower half (LA[63]=0) --> user space
2. Upper half

Open Source LLM

Microsoft in talks to invest $10 bln in ChatGPT owner -Semafor - Reuters

Reuters | Jan. 9, 2023, 9:53 p.m. | Original

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is said to be in talks to invest $10 billion into OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, Semafor reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The funding includes other venture firms and will value San Francisco-based OpenAI at $29 billion, the report said.

OpenAI made the ChatGPT chatbot available for free public testing on Nov. 30. A chatbot is a software application designed to mimic human-like conversation based on

Open Source LLM

OpenMandriva ROME 23.01 Rolling Release Arrives

Phoronix | Jan. 7, 2023, 5:15 a.m. | Original

OpenMandriva ROME 23.01 is now officially available as this Mandriva/Mandrake-derived Linux distribution in rolling-release form.

OpenMandriva ROME is the project's newer rolling-release effort to continue providing the latest software packages to users as an alternative to their traditional OS releases. OpenMandriva ROME like the OpenMandriva Lx releases continues to make use of the LLVM compiler by default as an alternative to using GCC as is most common among Linux distributions.

Open Source LLM

Lighttpd 1.4.68 Brings Stronger TLS Defaults, KTLS Sendfile Support For Faster Performance

Phoronix | Jan. 4, 2023, 12:35 p.m. | Original

Lighttpd 1.4.68 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this lightweight, high performance open-source web server.

This CPU and memory efficiency optimized HTTP(S) web server under the revised BSD license has continued tacking on more improvements with its newest release.

Lighttpd 1.4.68 now enforces stronger TLS defaults out-of-the-box though legacy ciphers can still be configured. The default for Lighttpd's TLS modules are to now use stronger, modern ciphers unless otherwise

Open Source LLM

Tellusim 3D Engine Adds Comprehensive Rust Bindings

Phoronix | Jan. 3, 2023, 6:56 a.m. | Original

The Tellusim Engine that is focused on professional simulations, visualizations, urban planning, VR/AR, and other 3D tasks has added a comprehensive set of Rust programming language bindings.

Tellusim Technologies is the company that was started by former Unigine engine CTO and co-founder Alexander Zapryagaev. Most Phoronix readers know of Tellusim not necessarily by name but via "GravityMark" for their demanding cross-API, cross-OS graphics benchmark.

Open Source LLM

OpenCV 4.7 Brings Numerous Improvements To This Open-Source Computer Vision Library

Phoronix | Dec. 28, 2022, 2:51 p.m. | Original

OpenCV 4.7 was released today as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source computer vision library.

The two decade old OpenCV library for computer vision that was originally started by Intel continues to make great strides. OpenCV 4.7 brings new ONNX layers, much better performance for convolutions with the DNN code, OpenVINO 2022.1 support, QR code detection and decoding quality improvements, FFmpeg 5.x support, NVIDIA CUDA 12.0 support, SIMD acceleration for the self

ChatGPT owner launches 'imperfect' tool to detect AI-generated text - Reuters

LLVM 16.0-rc1 Brings New AMD & Intel CPU Support, Zstd Debug Sections, C++17 By Default

LLVM 16.0 Feature Development Ends - Aiming For Early March Compiler Release

Mold 1.10 Released With Few New Features For This High Speed Linker

Intel Posts Linux Patches For Linear Address Space Separation (LASS)

Microsoft in talks to invest $10 bln in ChatGPT owner -Semafor - Reuters

OpenMandriva ROME 23.01 Rolling Release Arrives

Lighttpd 1.4.68 Brings Stronger TLS Defaults, KTLS Sendfile Support For Faster Performance

Tellusim 3D Engine Adds Comprehensive Rust Bindings

OpenCV 4.7 Brings Numerous Improvements To This Open-Source Computer Vision Library

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