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AI2, The Allen Institute for AI, Today Releases the OLMo: A State-of-the-Art, Truly Open-Source LLM and Framework

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Releasing the OLMo framework will provide the industry with an opportunity to understand what is going on inside AI models.

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  • Releasing the OLMo framework will provide the industry with an opportunity to understand what is going on inside AI models.
  • Today, The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMo 7B, a truly open-source, state-of-the-art large language model released alongside the pre-training data and training code, something no open models of this scale offer today.
  • This empowers researchers and developers to use the best and open models to advance the science of language models collectively.
  • “We’re excited to be collaborating with the Allen Institute for AI on the release of their OLMo open-source model and framework.

WhyLabs Announces Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate Responsible Generative AI Adoption

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

WhyLabs, Inc ., the AI Observability company, today announced a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises accelerate the development of AI-powered applications.

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  • WhyLabs, Inc ., the AI Observability company, today announced a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises accelerate the development of AI-powered applications.
  • The SCA is designed to further accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) observability for AWS customers and demonstrates a commitment to helping enterprises adopt generative and predictive AI technologies in a safe and responsible manner.
  • The SCA between WhyLabs and AWS gives shared customers an easy way to switch on observability for AI applications through the WhyLabs Platform on AWS.
  • From Fortune 100 companies to AI-first startups, teams have adopted WhyLabs’ tools to monitor ML and generative AI applications.

Conservation X Labs Named 2023 Conservation Technology Award Winner by EarthRanger

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Conservation X Labs (“CXL”) announced today that it was named a winner of the 2023 Conservation Technology Award by EarthRanger, a leading protected area management software from the Allen Institute for AI (AI2).

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  • Conservation X Labs (“CXL”) announced today that it was named a winner of the 2023 Conservation Technology Award by EarthRanger, a leading protected area management software from the Allen Institute for AI (AI2).
  • The award recognizes Sentinel, a smart camera system designed and engineered by CXL for the frontlines of the biodiversity crisis.
  • Sentinel provides near real-time information to rangers, conservationists, and researchers, enabling more dynamic protected area management and faster response to important events in the wild.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231108494474/en/
    Sam Kelly, Director of Conservation Technology at Conservation X Labs, accepting the 2023 EarthRanger Conservation Technology Award (Photo: Business Wire)
    “We are immensely proud of this recognition of the Sentinel by EarthRanger,” said Dr. Alex Dehgan, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Conservation X Labs.

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) announces commitment to the NAIRR Pilot as part of AI2’s Open Ecosystem for AI

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Monday, November 6, 2023

SEATTLE, Nov. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence released last week, The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) announces a commitment to the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource ( NAIRR ) pilot program as part of AI2’s Open Ecosystem for AI.

Key Points: 
  • SEATTLE, Nov. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence released last week, The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) announces a commitment to the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource ( NAIRR ) pilot program as part of AI2’s Open Ecosystem for AI.
  • “AI2 is deeply committed to working with the NAIRR Pilot community to support the design and development of truly open large-scale model training and evaluation software,” said Ali Farhadi, AI2 CEO.
  • As part of this commitment, AI2 will make datasets, large-scale models, training, and evaluation software available to the NAIRR Pilot via AI2’s Open Ecosystem for AI.
  • To start, AI2 will provide access to Dolma, a 3 trillion token open corpus for language model pre-training.

Fujitsu launches new technologies to protect conversational AI from hallucinations and adversarial attacks

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Professor Yuval Elovici, Ben Gurion University, comments: "Generative AI stands as a critical domain, and within it, the hallucination detection technology Fujitsu has developed emerges as pivotal for establishing trustworthy conversational AI systems.

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  • Professor Yuval Elovici, Ben Gurion University, comments: "Generative AI stands as a critical domain, and within it, the hallucination detection technology Fujitsu has developed emerges as pivotal for establishing trustworthy conversational AI systems.
  • Fujitsu will include these new technologies in its conversational AI core engine provided through the "Fujitsu Kozuchi (code name) - Fujitsu AI Platform," which offers users access to a wide range of powerful AI and ML technologies.
  • To address this issue, Fujitsu has developed a technology to detect manipulated URLs in the responses of conversational AI.
  • Fujitsu offers advanced technologies to corporate users via "Fujitsu Kozuchi (code name) - Fujitsu AI Platform" and to individual users through this portal site.

IUCN and AI2 to provide AI technology at no-cost to fast-track implementation of newly signed UN High Seas Treaty

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

The remoteness and vastness of the high seas present a unique challenge for countries planning to establish and monitor marine protected areas (MPAs) under the BBNJ Agreement – also known as the UN High Seas Treaty.

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  • The remoteness and vastness of the high seas present a unique challenge for countries planning to establish and monitor marine protected areas (MPAs) under the BBNJ Agreement – also known as the UN High Seas Treaty.
  • “AI2 and IUCN will work at the technology and policy nexus, deploying cutting-edge technology and world-class policy expertise to promote early BBNJ Treaty implementation.
  • “AI will be an important part of the solution required to effectively monitor and manage high seas and marine protected areas,” said Ted Schmitt, Senior Director of Skylight at AI2.
  • At least 60 UN Member States must ratify the treaty for it to come into force.

CalmWave to Present at U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell’s “Future of AI Forum”

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Monday, August 21, 2023

Senator Maria Cantwell’s “Future of AI Forum” on Monday, Aug. 21.

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  • Senator Maria Cantwell’s “Future of AI Forum” on Monday, Aug. 21.
  • It will bring together senior government officials, leaders from academia and industry, technologists, and the national and local technology press.
  • “We are honored to have been selected by Senator Cantell to participate in the ‘Future of AI Forum’ and demonstrate our ‘Transparent AI’ platform designed to improve Nurse Retention.
  • We started our company here in Washington with the assistance of world-class AI institutions like the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).

Databricks Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire MosaicML, a Leading Generative AI Platform

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Monday, June 26, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a leading generative AI platform. Together, Databricks and MosaicML will make generative AI accessible for every organization, enabling them to build, own and secure generative AI models with their own data. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.3 billion, inclusive of retention packages.

Key Points: 
  • Together, Databricks and MosaicML will enable any company to build, own and secure best-in-class generative AI models while maintaining control of their data
    SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks , the Data and AI company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a leading generative AI platform.
  • Together, Databricks and MosaicML will make generative AI accessible for every organization, enabling them to build, own and secure generative AI models with their own data.
  • Customers such as AI2 (Allen Institute for AI), Generally Intelligent, Hippocratic AI, Replit and Scatter Labs leverage MosaicML for a wide variety of generative AI use cases.
  • Databricks' unified Data and AI platform combined with MosaicML's generative AI training capabilities will provide a platform robust enough to serve the world's largest organizations and flexible enough to address a broad range of AI use cases.

Databricks Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire MosaicML, a Leading Generative AI Platform

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Monday, June 26, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a leading generative AI platform. Together, Databricks and MosaicML will make generative AI accessible for every organization, enabling them to build, own and secure generative AI models with their own data. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.3 billion, inclusive of retention packages.

Key Points: 
  • Together, Databricks and MosaicML will enable any company to build, own and secure best-in-class generative AI models while maintaining control of their data
    SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks , the Data and AI company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MosaicML, a leading generative AI platform.
  • Together, Databricks and MosaicML will make generative AI accessible for every organization, enabling them to build, own and secure generative AI models with their own data.
  • Customers such as AI2 (Allen Institute for AI), Generally Intelligent, Hippocratic AI, Replit and Scatter Labs leverage MosaicML for a wide variety of generative AI use cases.
  • Databricks' unified Data and AI platform combined with MosaicML's generative AI training capabilities will provide a platform robust enough to serve the world's largest organizations and flexible enough to address a broad range of AI use cases.

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Announces New CEO

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

SEATTLE, June 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) today announced Ali Farhadi will become its new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 31.

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  • SEATTLE, June 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) today announced Ali Farhadi will become its new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 31.
  • Founded in 2014, AI2 is the research institute created by the late philanthropist Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, to drive high-impact AI research and engineering.
  • The 501(c)3 nonprofit organization has been responsible for a number of groundbreaking advancements in AI and continues to be a leader in generative and foundational AI research.
  • “As the premier AI research and engineering nonprofit, AI2’s work to advance the science and impact of artificial intelligence on a global scale has never been more critical.