Google publicly released its Cloud TPU v5e, a processor specifically built to handle faster training performance for large language models. The company said TPU v5e “delivers up to 2x higher training performance per dollar” compared to the previous TPU v4. Google also announced the newest version of its supercomputer to run more generative AI models. The A3 VM is powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
Chinese technology giant Alibaba announced two new generative AI models, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, that the company said can have complex conversations. CNBC reported that Qwen-VL deals with open-ended prompts while Qwen-VL-Chat, according to Alibaba, can compare multiple images and perform tasks like writing stories, solving math problems on a photo, and creating pictures from user-uploaded images.
South Korean company Naver also launched its own large language model HyperClovaX along with generative AI-powered search tool Cue and a chat app called Clova X.
The New York Times was among the first to block GPTBot from accessing its data to improve AI models. Any website owner can disallow GPTBot from scraping their website through the robots.txt file. The Guardian reported that other news organizations have also blocked Common Crawl’s CCBot.
