This Week in Generative AI - 15 to 21 July

Meta Launches New Generative AI Tool For Research, Commercial Use

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, has launched a new large language model called Llama 2.
It is available for free for both research and commercial use.
Meta has partnered with Microsoft to make Llama 2 accessible through Azure and Amazon Web Services, promoting an open approach to AI development.

Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers have found evidence of a decline in the quality of responses from OpenAI’s ChatGPT model.
The recently released GPT-4 model had a significant drop in success rate when answering prime number queries.
The study evaluated the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 across various tasks and found a decrease in response quality.
Tasks fall into four categories: solving math problems, answering sensitive questions, code generation, and visual reasoning.

Apple is reportedly developing its chatbot service called ‘Apple GPT’ using its Ajax framework.
The company is concerned about missing out on the generative AI trend and aims to transform how people interact with their devices.
Ajax has already improved search, Siri, and Maps.

Salesforce, the CRM giant, plans to invest $4bn in its UK business over the next five years.
The company aims to capitalise on the growing demand for artificial intelligence technology and has already launched various AI-powered applications.
Salesforce has also partnered with Deloitte Digital to help businesses implement and scale AI for CRM.

A new paper titled “The Curse of Recursion” speculates that as the internet becomes filled with AI-generated content, large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT will struggle to progress.
The reliance on generative AI services and algorithms will lead to “Model Collapse” and make training new LLMs more difficult.