Open-source AI takes the lead

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Nvidia is already crushing the chipmaking game, but its models are also casually topping the LLM benchmarks and outperforming the giants.

Did the corporate’s latest Nemotron release just give the open-source AI movement a brand new champion? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Nvidia’s Nemotron outperforms leading AI models

• Mistral AI unveils powerful recent AI models for devices

• Superstudio is your all-in-one creative AI platform

• Boston Dynamics, Toyota team up on AI humanoids

• 5 recent AI tools & 4 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

NVIDIA

🚀 Nvidia’s Nemotron outperforms leading AI models

The Rundown: Nvidia quietly released a brand new open-sourced, fine-tuned LLM called Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, which is outperforming industry leaders like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on key benchmarks.

The main points:

• Nemotron relies on Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B model, fine-tuned by NVIDIA using advanced ML methods like RLHF.

• The model achieves top scores on alignment benchmarks like Arena Hard (85.0), AlpacaEval 2 LC (57.6), and GPT-4-Turbo MT-Bench (8.98).

• The scores edge out competitors like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet across multiple metrics — despite being significantly smaller at just 70B parameters.

• NVIDIA open-sourced the model, reward model, and training dataset on Hugging Face, which will also be tested in a preview on the corporate’s website.

Why it matters: Is a smaller open-source model racing to the highest? While NVIDIA’s chipmaking triumphs are well-known, more surprising are the powerhouse models the corporate continues to supply. With open-source foundations and advanced fine-tuning, Nemotron is showing that smaller, efficient models can compete with giants.

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MISTRAL AI

📱Mistral AI unveils powerful recent AI models for devices

The Rundown: French AI startup Mistral AI just launched two recent compact language models designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to edge devices like phones and laptops.

The main points:

• The brand new ‘Les Ministraux’ family includes Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B models, which have just 3B and 8B parameters, respectively.

• Despite their small size, the models outperform competitors like Gemma and Llama on benchmarks, including Mistral’s 7B model from last yr.

• Minstral 8B uses a brand new ‘interleaved sliding-window attention’ mechanism to efficiently process long sequences.

• The models are designed for on-device use cases like local translation, offline assistants, and autonomous robotics.

Why it matters: While we await the incoming rollout of Apple Intelligence as many users’ first on-device AI experience, smaller models that may run efficiently and locally on phones and computers proceed to level up. Having a top-tier LLM within the palm of your hand is about to develop into a norm, not a luxury.

AI TRAINING

🧑‍🎨 Superstudio is your all-in-one creative AI platform

The Rundown: Kaiber announced Superstudio, a brand recent AI-powered infinite canvas, launching with Flux and Luma to assist bring your creative ideas to life.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit www.Superstudio.app and enroll for a free account

2. Click the “+” in the highest Navigation Bar so as to add a Flow to your Canvas

3. Create a picture with the Flux Flow or Image Lab Flow

4. Create a video using the Luma Flow to bring your images to life

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• Validate AI-generated code with AI Code Assurance

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• Mitigate risks inherent in AI-generated code

Learn more about integrating Sonar into your workflow.

BOSTON DYNAMICS

🤖Boston Dynamics, Toyota team up on AI humanoids

The Rundown: Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute just announced a brand new partnership to speed up development of advanced humanoids, with plans to integrate TRI’s Large Behavior Models (LBMs) into the Atlas electric robot.

The main points:

• Toyota’s LBMs aim to show robots to handle multi-task, dexterous vision, and language-guided capabilities.

• The partnership combines two robotics labs owned by competing automakers, Hyundai (who purchased Boston Dynamics in 2020) and Toyota.

• TRI‘s ‘Diffusion Policy’ enables robots to learn 60+ complex skills from human demos without coding, a key component of the partnership’s research efforts.

• Boston Dynamics retired its hydraulic Atlas robot in April and debuted the electrical update, currently being tested in Hyundai’s automotive factories.

Why it matters: The race for business humanoids is heating up fast — and this partnership represents a serious power move. But with the likes of Tesla’s Optimus, Figure’s 01 humanoids, and others in the combo, there isn’t a shortage of rivals rushing to capture the huge potential of the emerging general-purpose robots.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

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Latest AI Job Opportunities

• 🛡️ Weights & Biases – Senior Product Manager, Identity & Governance

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team