Open Source LLM

Open AI開源自動語音辨識系統Whisper

Open AI在週三(9/21)開源了 號稱其英文語音辨識能力已達到人類水準的Whisper神經網路,且它亦支援其它98種語言的自動語音辨識。

Whisper系統所提供的自動語音辨識(Automatic Speech Recognition,ASR)模型是被訓練來執行語音辨識與翻譯任務的,它


Open Source LLM

Nvidia發布AI新工具簡化大型語言模型訓練與部署

Nvidia發布多項大型語言模型(LLM)新服務與框架 ,除了能夠自定義模型的服務NeMo LLM,以及擴展大型語言模型在製藥和生物技術產業的科學用服務BioNeMo,同時Nvidia也推出NeMo Megatron端到端框架公開測試版,供開發人員訓練和部署大型語言模型。


Open Source LLM

AMD Releases AOMP 16.0-0 As Their Radeon GPU OpenMP Offloading Compiler

AMD engineers today released AOMP 16.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler where they stage their latest development patches focused on Radeon GPU OpenMP offloading.

AOMP is AMD's staging area or playground for their GPU offloading patches until they are upstreamed within LLVM itself. AOMP isn't to be confused with AOCC as AMD's Optimizing C/C++ Compiler focused on their Zen-enriched downstream of LLVM/Clang for the CPU side of the house. With AOMP 1

Open Source LLM|Intel

(PR) AMD Joins New PyTorch Foundation as Founding Member

AMD today announced it is joining the newly created PyTorch Foundation as a founding member. The foundation, which will be part of the non-profit Linux Foundation, will drive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tooling by fostering and sustaining an ecosystem of open source projects with PyTorch, the Machine Learning (ML) software framework originally created and fostered by Meta.

As a founding member, AMD joins others in the industry to prioritize the continued growth of PyTorch's vibrant community. Supported by innovations such as the AMD ROCm


Open Source LLM

Richard Stallman Announces GNU C Language Reference Manual

GNU founder Richard Stallman has recently been working on crafting a GNU C Language introduction and reference manual.

Stallman announced today the release of the GNU C Language Introduction & Reference Manual for covering the GNU extensions to the C programming language.

The manual is written as Texi files and is published under the GNU Free Documentation License, v1.3+.
This manual explains the C language for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) on the GNU/Linux system and other systems. We refer to this dialect as GNU

Open Source LLM

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 ROME "Silver Candidate" Released

Following the OpenMandriva Lx ROME Technical Preview release from earlier this summer, a "silver candidate" for OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 ROME is now available for testing.

OpenMandriva's ROME is their rolling release take for this originally Mandrake/Mandriva-derived Linux distribution. With the "silver candidate" announced this morning they classify it as not quite a release candidate but at least a step further from their earlier technical preview release.

OpenMandriva Lx ROME uses the KDE Plasma desktop by default, continues using LLVM Clang as the default

Open Source LLM

Mesa's Rust OpenCL Implementation Expected To Be Merged In Coming Days

As part of experimenting with using Rust code inside Mesa , longtime Mesa developer Karol Herbst of Red Hat has been developing Rusticl as a new Rust-based OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D and an alternative to the long-standing "Clover" OpenCL state tracker. That Rusticl code with the initial Rust infrastructure for Mesa is expected to be merged in the coming days.

Rusticl has been working on OpenCL 3.0 support and other modern OpenCL features for this freshly-written Rust code. It's also managed to run
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Open Source LLM

MGLRU Linux Performance Looking Very Good For OpenWrt Router Use

For those running the embedded OpenWrt Linux operating system for routers and other networking devices or just running a memory-constrained MIPS Linux system, the forthcoming Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" kernel feature is looking very good on that front.

MGLRU is expected to land in Linux 6.1 for this big improvement over the current Linux kernel page reclamation code. Google engineers found the current page reclamation code to be too expensive and making poor eviction choices. MGLRU has been in development for a while as a big improvement especially when
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Open Source LLM|Intel

Intel's SYCLomatic 20220829 Released For Converting CUDA Code To C++ SYCL

Back in May Intel announced SYCLomatic as an open-source tool for converting CUDA code to C++ SYCL for execution within their oneAPI stack on Intel GPUs and more. Out today is SYCLomatic 20220829 as their first tagged version of this code porting helper.

SYCLomatic aims to ease the transition of NVIDIA CUDE code-bases over to C++17-based SYCL as the Khronos API single source standard. This joins the likes of AMD's hipSYCL and other projects over the
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Open Source LLM

Sound Open Firmware 2.2.1 Released With Preparations For Intel Raptor Lake

Sound Open Fimware is already four years old as what started out as Intel pushing for more open firmware around audio DSPs. Since then we've seen Mediatek begin to support "SOF" as well as some AMD hardware supporting Sound Open Firmwar . Out today is SOF 2.2.1 as the latest from this open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella.

Sound Open Firmware continues to be backed by the likes of Intel, Google, Mediatek, NXP, AMD, Realtek, and other vendors for embracing open
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