Meta’s SeamlessM4T: The First All-in-One, Multilingual Multimodal AI
Plus: Hugging Faces launches IDEFICS, OpenAI enables fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo.
Hello, Engineering Leaders and AI Enthusiasts!
Welcome to the 91st edition of The AI Edge newsletter. This edition brings you Meta’s SeamlessM4T, the first all-in-one, multilingual multimodal AI.
And a huge shoutout to our incredible readers. You all rock! 😊
In today’s edition:
🤖Meta’s SeamlessM4T: The first all-in-one, multilingual multimodal AI🤗Hugging Face’s IDEFICS is like a multimodal ChatGPT
🧰 OpenAI enables fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo
🧠 Knowledge Nugget: Top 8 AI Landing Page Generators To Quickly Test Startup Ideas by
Let’s go!
Meta’s SeamlessM4T: The first all-in-one, multilingual multimodal AI
Meta has introduced SeamlessM4T, the first all-in-one multilingual multimodal AI translation and transcription model. This single model can perform speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, text-to-speech, text-to-text translations, and more for up to 100 languages without relying on multiple separate models.
Compared to cascaded approaches, SeamlessM4T's single system approach reduces errors & delays, increasing translation efficiency & quality, delivering state-of-the-art results.
Meta is also releasing its training dataset called SeamlessAlign and sharing the model publicly to allow researchers and developers to build on this technology.
Why does this matter?
This is an important breakthrough in the AI community’s quest to create universal multitask systems. It can also be a potential building block for tools and technologies enabling real-time communication, translation, or transcription across different languages.
Hugging Face’s IDEFICS is like a multimodal ChatGPT
Imagine a model with a ChatGPT-like understanding of natural language; now add best-in-class image capabilities. Hugging Face has released IDEFICS (Image-aware Decoder Enhanced à la Flamingo with Interleaved Cross-attentionS), an open-access visual language model (VLM). It is based on Flamingo, a SoTA VLM initially developed by DeepMind, which has not been released publicly.
Similarly to GPT-4, the model accepts arbitrary sequences of image and text inputs and produces text outputs. IDEFICS is built solely on publicly available data and models (LLaMA v1 and OpenCLIP) and comes in two variants—the base version and the instructed version. Each variant is available at the 9 billion and 80 billion parameter sizes. We found a demo on X (🤭):
Why does this matter?
Flamingo was an early milestone of multimodal foundation models that support arbitrary interleaving of image and text. IDEFICS is not quite at DeepMind's level yet but outperforms an earlier community effort (OpenFlamingo). And it provides the AI community with systems that match the capabilities of large proprietary models like Flamingo.
OpenAI enables fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI has launched fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo. Fine-tuning lets you train the model on your company's data and run it at scale. Early tests have shown a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5 Turbo can match, or even outperform, base GPT-4-level capabilities on certain narrow tasks. Here are the fine-tuning steps:
OpenAI also said that none of fine-tuning data, input or output, will be used to train models outside of the client company. And that fine-tuning support for GPT-4 will arrive sometime later this fall.
Why does this matter?
This will let businesses hone ChatGPT to a more focused model that performs better for their use cases- such as code completion, mimicking brand voice, maintaining a consistent tone, etc.– making ChatGPT an efficient tool. Plus, fine-tuning can allow businesses to make the model follow instructions better, even with shorter prompts.
Knowledge Nugget: Top 8 AI Landing Page Generators To Quickly Test Startup Ideas
AI landing page generators are game changers. These tools allow you to evaluate numerous ideas simultaneously, delve into varied iterations of a single concept, and even create region-specific versions with ease.
In this article,
explores and reviews various AI-powered landing page generators to assist startup founders in quickly creating and testing landing pages for their ideas. It aims to find a solution that provides a free custom domain, fast page creation, automated copy generation, essential components for a landing page, image support, clear call-to-action buttons, and waiting list functionality.Why does this matter?
It offers practical guidance for leveraging AI for faster idea validation, facilitating more efficient and faster testing of startup concepts. Thus, it helps increase the rate of AI-driven product development and market entry.
What Else Is Happening❗
🤝Microsoft and Epic expand collaboration to accelerate generative AI’s impact in healthcare (Link)
🔄IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java, easing modernizing of COBOL apps (Link)
💰Salesforce leads financing of Hugging Face at more than $4 Billion valuation (Link)
🚀ElevenLabs launched its platform out of beta with support for 30+ languages (Link)
🎨Microsoft Paint could soon get AI-enhanced features on Windows 11 (Link)
🤩 Wednesday WOW!
Introducing Ryan (synthetic human by AI).
Wild, isn’t it?!
Advances in AI have unlocked a range of new use cases previously only achieved by humans.
HeyGen creates virtual people (like synthetic Ryan) with generative AI for sales pitches, marketing collateral, training videos, and more. The traditional approach to filming people is 100x slower and more costly. 🎬
Check out this X thread for more examples of such tech.
🛠️ Trending Tools
Klipme: AI video editor streamlines editing. Analyzes longer videos for best moments. Enhance promotion or social media with AI.
Gemoo AI Wallpaper Generator: Free, lightweight AI wallpaper maker with multiple styles. Enter prompt, wallpaper generated and set up on Mac.
Coolifyme: Easiest, cheapest way to get AI-generated avatars without subscription or investment. Similar to astria.com’s fine-tuning.
Tonkean: Streamline legal processes with dynamic, responsive workflows that delight requesters and increase visibility.
helpix AI: An AI platform that converses in your language and quickly answers questions via multiple channels.
X3 AI: A powerful, free-to-use AI content generator powered by PaLM 2.
Moly AI: Real-time answers to visitors’ questions with a chatbot and FAQs trained on website content and files. No code is required.
WhisperTranscribe: Transcribe audio with fast, accurate AI-generated transcripts. Create new content from transcripts with GPT prompts.
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