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Nvidia unveils its new NVLM 1.0 AI model, rivaling the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-4
Ray Choi
October 02, 2024
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🖥️ Nvidia unveils its new NVLM 1.0 AI model, rivaling the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-4
❌ Gov. Newsom vetoes California’s controversial AI bill, SB 1047
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Nvidia has released its powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that could outpace the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-4. The company’s new NVLM 1.0 family of open-source multimodal large language models (LLMs), with its flagship model, NVLM-D-72B, has around 72 billion parameters.
According to Nvidia’s research team, the new AI model excels in vision-language tasks while maintaining and even improving text-only performance compared to their LLM backbones.
In their paper, the researchers state: “We introduce NVLM 1.0, a family of frontier-class multimodal large language models that achieve state-of-the-art results on vision-language tasks, rivaling the leading proprietary models (e.g., GPT-4o) and open-access models.”
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, a high-profile bill that would have regulated the development of AI. The bill was authored by State Senator Scott Wiener and would have made companies that develop AI models liable for implementing safety protocols to prevent “critical harms.”
SB 1047 was opposed by many in Silicon Valley, including companies like OpenAI, high-profile technologists like Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, and even Democratic politicians such as U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna.
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