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Access to computational resources is key for democratizing AI, in all domains.

We cooked up something we're proud of: Hugging Face is committing $10 million in free GPUs to help developers create new AI technologies.

“AI should not be held in the hands of the few. With this commitment to open-source developers, we’re excited to see what everyone will cook up next in the spirit of collaboration and transparency.” — @clem

Read the exclusive by Kylie Robison: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24156755/hugging-face-celement-delangue-free-shared-gpus-ai
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"This Journalism Professor Made a NYC Chatbot in Minutes. It Actually Worked"

A lot of interesting quotes in this interview in The Markup with Jonathan Soma, a professor in data journalism at Columbia University: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/05/11/this-journalism-professor-made-a-nyc-chatbot-in-minutes-it-actually-worked

When the New York City government released its chatbot, journalists found that "Again and again, the bot messing up on city laws and regulations."

Enter Jonathan Soma, who tried to build his own version of the chatbot. And guess what? He got accurate responses.

💬 Still, he remains cautious: "Chatbots are great for low-stakes things. They are great when something is fun, they are great for a task where you do not need 100 percent accuracy, when you just want a little bit of guidance."

"I think that AI in general is absolutely useful for journalism, and I’ve been teaching machine learning and AI to journalists long before ChatGPT hit the scene. I think it is explicitly chatbots that are probably the most problematic part, because they are so confident in everything that they say."

🤗 I have a particular soft spot for this project, as it uses many Hugging Face tools under the hood. This is precisely the kind of work we want to build with the Journalists on HF community. Join us: https://huggingface.co/JournalistsonHF

📺 I can't recommend enough watching his video serie "Practical AI for Investigative Journalism": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5wvtYRYbfA&list=PLewNEVDy7gq1_GPUaL0OQ31QsiHP5ncAQ

— Thanks @BrigitteTousi for the link!
posted an update 10 days ago
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What tools do you need to deconstruct bias in algorithms? (You know, this thing that is becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives)

Participate in the new discussion in the Journalists on Hugging Face community: JournalistsonHF/README#4
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A new dataset for anyone interested in Satellite imagery: 3 million @Satellogic images of unique locations — 6 million images, including location revisits — from around the world under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license.

Interesting potential in journalism.

satellogic/EarthView
posted an update 16 days ago
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I've added new collections to the Journalists on 🤗 community, focusing on Data Visualization, Optical Character Recognition, and Multimodal Models:

- TinyChart-3B: This model interprets data visualizations based on your prompts. It can generate the underlying data table from a chart or recreate the chart with Python code.
- PDF to OCR: Convert your PDFs to text—ideal for FOI records sent as images.
- Idefics-8b: A multimodal model that allows you to ask questions about images.

Explore these tools here: 👉 https://huggingface.co/JournalistsonHF
posted an update 17 days ago
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New conversation in our Journalists on Hugging Face community: Exploring auto-tagging articles for taxonomy.

I've shared insights from my previous experience with fine-tuning a model for a classification task. But has anyone built a similar use case? Or are you seeking a solution for this task too? Join the discussion here: JournalistsonHF/README#2
posted an update 19 days ago
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Should media organizations strike deals with big tech companies? Here are two colliding news stories about licensing:

1. The Financial Times has secured a licensing agreement with OpenAI to license its material both for training and queries on ChatGPT. It is the fifth such deal, following similar agreements with Associated Press, Axel Springer, Le Monde and Prisa Media. "Financial terms were not disclosed."

"Apart from the benefits to the FT, there are broader implications for the industry. It’s right, of course, that AI platforms pay publishers for the use of their material. OpenAI understands the importance of transparency, attribution, and compensation – all essential for us."

2. Meanwhile, French media outlet Mediapart is refusing to cash in money from Google, which it is entitled to under so-called "neighbouring rights" for the right to display their news content online.

Why? Due to issues with disclosing financial terms: "The confidentiality clauses imposed by Google today prevent us from publicizing to our readers not only the total amount paid, but also the amount Mediapart is entitled to receive."

"In our view, financial dependence on platforms is incompatible with our public service mission, which is to make the powerful face up to their responsibilities. It also seems extremely dangerous economically."

Two positions at opposite sides of the spectrum.

- The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
https://www.ft.com/content/33328743-ba3b-470f-a2e3-f41c3a366613

- Droits voisins : Mediapart lance la bataille de la transparence contre Google (in French) https
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How do Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) results compare?

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit
- 17 % jump in revenue and a 20 % increase in profit for the first three months of the year.
- Revenue was $61.9 billion, up from $52.9 billion a year earlier.
- Profit hit $21.9 billion, up from $18.3 billion.
- More than a fifth of that growth came from its generative A.I. services
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/microsoft-earnings.html

Alphabet’s Revenue Jumps 15% to $80.5 Billion
- $80.5 billion in quarterly sales, up 15 % from a year earlier. Profit climbed 36 % to $23.7 billion.
- For the first time, a dividend of 20 cents per share
- It spent $12 billion on capital expenditures in the first quarter, soaring 91 % from a year earlier.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/alphabet-earnings.html

Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels - Wired
- "if open source models prove competitive, developers and entrepreneurs may decide to stop paying to access the latest model from OpenAI or Google and use Llama 3 or one of the other increasingly powerful open source models that are popping up."
- "Open models appear to be dropping at an impressive clip."
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-open-source-llama-3-nipping-at-openais-heels/
posted an update 23 days ago
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5 interesting news stories today:

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
- "'I think we might just have to say goodbye to finding out about the truth in a quick way,” says Sandra Wachter, a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute"
- "Synthesia uses both large language models and diffusion models to do this. Sees itself as a platform for businesses. Its bet is this: As people spend more time watching videos on YouTube and TikTok, there will be more demand for video content."
- "Synthesia’s policy is to not create avatars of people without their explicit consent. But it hasn’t been immune from abuse."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/1091772/new-generative-ai-avatar-deepfake-synthesia/

WIRED found thousands of ads running on Meta's social platforms promoting sexually explicit "Al girlfriend" apps.
- "Some human sex workers say the platform unfairly polices their own posts more harshly."
- "Many of the virtual women seen in ads reviewed by WIRED are lifelike—if somewhat uncanny—young, and stereotypically pornographic."
https://www.wired.com/story/ads-for-explicit-ai-girlfriends-swarming-facebook-and-instagram/

Wall Street’s Patience for a Costly A.I. Arms Race Is Waning
- "A sell-off in Meta’s stock after the company disclosed huge investments in the technology may be a sign of investor fears about tech giants’ spending."
- "The company plans to spend $35 billion to $40 billion this year — much of that on the technology."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/dealbook/meta-artificial-intelligence-spending.html

Saudia Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/to-the-future-saudi-arabia-spends-big-to-become-an-ai-superpower.html

UK competition watchdog steps up scrutiny of big tech’s role in AI startups
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/24/uk-competition-watchdog-steps-up-scrutiny-of-big-techs-role-in-ai-startups-cma-microsoft-amazon
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It's been only a week since I joined 🤗 and the community has released a constant flow of content!

Notable models:
- Apple OpenELM apple/openelm-instruct-models-6619ad295d7ae9f868b759ca + apple/openelm-pretrained-models-6619ac6ca12a10bd0d0df89e
- HuggingFaceM4 Idefics2 HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b
- Meta Llama 3 meta-llama/meta-llama-3-66214712577ca38149ebb2b6
- Microsoft Phi-3 microsoft/phi-3-6626e15e9585a200d2d761e3
- Snowflake Arctic Snowflake/arctic-66290090abe542894a5ac520

Great datasets:
- HuggingFaceFW FineWeb HuggingFaceFW/fineweb
- HuggingFaceM4/the_cauldron HuggingFaceM4/the_cauldron
- PleIAs/YouTube-Commons PleIAs/YouTube-Commons

Fascinating Spaces
- InstantMesh TencentARC/InstantMesh
- Chat with Llama 3 8B ysharma/Chat_with_Meta_llama3_8b
- Parler-TTS parler-tts/parler_tts_mini
- AI Jukebox enzostvs/ai-jukebox
- CosXL multimodalart/cosxl
- Singing songstarter nateraw/singing-songstarter
- Play with Idefics2 8B https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceM4/idefics-8b
- CodeQwen1.5-7B-Chat Bot👾
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7b-Chat-demo

I expected to be at the center of AI development. I'm not disappointed!
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posted an update 25 days ago
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Testing the Phi-3-mini 4k on HuggingChat. How well can it craft a tweet?

Not bad at all: 
Excited to unveil phi-3-mini, a compact yet powerful 3.8B parameter model, outperforming giants like Mixtral & GPT-3.5 on benchmarks & safe for phones! *
#Al #Phi3 #LanguageModel #Techinnovation #Phi3Miniml

The models are here:
- Phi-3-Mini-4K-Instruct: microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
-Phi-3-Mini-128K-Instruct: microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Try it out in Hugging Chat: https://huggingface.co/chat/models/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
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