Microsoft has released the latest version of its Phi-3.5 small language model. This new version is a significant upgrade over the previous generation, outperforming small models from major players like Google, OpenAI, Mistral, and Meta on several important metrics. Phi-3.5 is available in 3.8 billion, 4.15 billion and 41.9 billion parameter versions. All three versions … Read more
Google's Help Me Write has two new features that will make composing emails faster than ever. Help Me Write is an AI feature powered by Google Gemini that originally appeared in Gmail and offered suggestions on how to complete sentences. It was later extended to Chrome earlier this year and includes writing suggestions and rewrites. … Read more
Few things trigger my skepticism reflex faster than when a company starts talking about how it’s integrating AI into its products. With artificial intelligence becoming the buzzword of the moment, many AI announcements and demos seem to have a whiff of “oh yeah, us too,” whether or not those announcements or demos have any real … Read more