A look at BigScience, a global effort of 900+ researchers backed by NLP startup Hugging Face, that's working to make large language models more accessible
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @thom_wolf Tweets: Thomas Wolf / @thom_wolf : Great overview of what's been going on in BigScience! @BigscienceW is taking an under-explored path I find very exci...
Toronto-based Cohere, founded by two ex-Google Brain team members to commercialize natural language AI models, raises $40M Series A led by Index Ventures
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Following a competition, Facebook announces AI Language Research Consortium, a community of partners it says will work on advancing NLP priority research areas
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Sources: Facebook is buying London-based NLP startup Bloomsbury AI whose team and tech it plans to deploy to combat fake news and other content issues
Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot …