❄️ Arctic AI

🧵 In today's edition:

• ❄️ Snowflake is going all in on AI

• 🧑‍🚒 Adobe unveils its latest model 

• 🧑‍🏫 How can AI improve the education system?

• 🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

• 🐦 Tweet Post of the Day

❄️ Snowflake is going all in on AI

Snowflake, the data cloud company, recently announced its commitment to AI by introducing Snowflake Arctic. This state-of-the-art LLM aims to be the most open and enterprise-grade model on the market.

Here's what you need to know:

• Arctic utilizes a unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, delivering top-tier intelligence with unmatched efficiency at scale.

• It surpasses leading open models in various benchmarks, including SQL code generation and instruction following.

• Snowflake is releasing Arctic's weights under an Apache 2.0 license.

• Arctic belongs to the Snowflake Arctic model family, which also features state-of-the-art text embedding models for retrieval use cases.

Regarding training:

• Arctic was trained in less than three months and at approximately one-eighth of the cost of similar models.

• It only activates 17 out of 480 billion parameters at a time, achieving industry-leading quality with unprecedented token efficiency.

Overall: Snowflake continues to equip enterprises with the necessary data foundation and advanced AI building blocks. These resources aid in the creation of powerful AI and machine learning applications using their enterprise data.

With Arctic available on Snowflake Cortex, customers can expedite the development of production-grade AI applications at scale within the Data Cloud's secure and governed environment.

Read more: Financial Post

🧑‍🚒 Adobe unveils its latest model 

This week, Adobe unveiled the Firefly Image 3 Foundation Model, the latest version of its GenAI creative models.

Here’s the TL;DR:

• Firefly Image 3 boasts improved photorealistic quality, styling capabilities, detail, accuracy, and generation speed.

• The updated model offers better image generation quality, an enhanced understanding of prompts, greater detail and variety, and substantial improvements for quicker creative expression and ideation.

• It also features new auto-stylization capabilities and outstanding user control with Structure Reference and Style Reference.

  • In simple terms, it can take a reference picture and produce the desired results with minor prompt adjustments.

The best part? Adobe's layered, ongoing review and moderation process ensures that content generated by Firefly does not violate copyrights or intellectual property rights.

Read more: Adobe Blog

🧑‍🏫 How can AI improve the education system?

The education system has long been driven by standardization, often overlooking individual learners' needs, particularly those facing disadvantages. 

However, AI has the potential to revolutionize education by creating personalized, dynamic learning pathways that cater to each student's unique requirements.

• AI can curate and sequence curriculum, provide contextual feedback, and offer real-time insights into student understanding, enabling teachers to more effectively meet diverse academic and developmental needs. 

• It can also enhance parental engagement by providing targeted activities and customized communication based on cultural contexts.

While AI integration has potential risks, educational leaders are proactively addressing these challenges by developing strategies that ensure AI enhances learning while safeguarding against its drawbacks. 

The U.S. Department of Education's guidelines emphasize "human-in-the-loop" systems and a focus on improving student outcomes.

Overall: Leading school districts like New York City Public Schools and Los Angeles Unified School District are pioneering thoughtful AI implementation strategies, such as the AI Policy Lab and the Individualized Acceleration Plan.

Read more: Fast Company

🛠️ AI Tools to Check Out

• Firecut: Meet your lightning-fast AI video editor. It allows you to silence cutting, captions, zooms, chapters, podcasts, and much more right in Adobe Premiere Pro. Check it out!

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• Bluedot HQ: Press 🔵 to record, transcribe, and summarise your meetings with AI-generated notes adapted to your needs. Check it out!

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🤑 AI Fundraising News

• Alaffia Health raises $10M in funding to use AI to help health insurance plans streamline operations and reduce claim spending.

• Sublime Security raises $20M in Series A funding to provide an AI-powered, programmable cloud email security platform that detects and blocks attacks such as business email compromise (BEC), malware/ransomware, credential phishing, and more.

🐦 Tweet Post of the Day

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