In this article, you will learn how to get a small language model running locally on your own machine in under 15 minutes using Ollama. Topics we will cover include: Why Ollama has become the standard tool for running local AI models. The three-step process to install Ollama, download a model, and start chatting entirely…
Inkling: Our open-weights model (via) Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab just released their first open-weights model. Inkling is “a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active” – an Apache-2.0 licensed multimodal model trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio and video. They’re also promising Inkling-Small, a 276B (12B active) model, but that’s…
A video analytics AI agent that can perceive, reason, and act based on massive amounts of video footage must be integrated with existing workflows and applications to be useful. These include content management systems, messaging platforms, databases, ticket queue, and escalation paths. This integration is challenging because video systems, enterprise knowledge bases, and operational tools…
Chintan Desai, president of Asia Pacific region, Zimmer Biomet. Courtesy of Zimmer Biomet Name: Chintan Desai New title: President of Asia Pacific region, Zimmer Biomet Previous title: Vice president and general manager of international growth and export markets, Alcon Zimmer Biomet said Tuesday it has appointed Chintan Desai president of its Asia Pacific region,…
Disclaimer: This article discusses nonconsensual sexual imagery and child sexual abuse material. xAI is suing a Grok user it accuses of repeatedly changing rejected prompts until the chatbot produced sexual deepfakes of adults and children. Elon Musk’s AI company filed the case against South Carolina resident Terry Wayne Harwood in federal court in Texas. Reuters…
Brian Ton, senior laboratory manager at Florida Crystals, shares firsthand advice on implementing visual AI in complex manufacturing, drawn from real deployments. His playbook: validation and verification first, an operator feedback loop designed in from day one, small wins before home runs, and persistence over technology choice. Brian Ton runs the quality labs at Florida…
A note from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: Nearly two years ago we kicked off the Gemini era, one of our biggest scientific and product endeavors ever undertaken as a company. Since then, it’s been incredible to see how much people love it. AI Overviews now have 2 billion users every month. The Gemini…
The integration of AI into real-world applications has long been hindered by a fundamental challenge: the disconnect between systems that can see, systems that can think, and systems that can act. Developers have struggled with complex integrations, managing multiple APIs, and creating custom solutions to bridge these gaps, resulting in inefficient, costly, and often fragile…
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Well, sort of. The skies in these parts are decidedly hazy thanks to smoky conditions to the north. Nonetheless, we are doing our best to take a deep breath and focus on the matters at hand. To that end, we are firing up…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Summary: An Accenture survey of 1,928 executives across 28 countries reveals that most companies treat sovereign AI as a compliance issue rather than a strategic opportunity. Sovereignty is a continuum of choices, and companies best positioned to scale artificial intelligence globally treat those choices as a competitive advantage. Three…