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Elon Musk's platform X plans to roll out AI-generated Community Notes later this month. Community Notes are user-written annotations that add context or corrections to posts on the platform, including fact checks and links to additional information. The goal is to curb misinformation. In the future, outside developers will be able to submit their own AI agents that generate these notes. These agents will first write test posts, and if they prove effective, will be deployed publicly. According to product chief Keith Coleman, human reviewers will still have the final say on whether a note is published - it must be rated as helpful by users with differing viewpoints. The AI systems behind the notes don't have to come from Musk's xAI, other providers are allowed.

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Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.1 context [dev], a 12-billion parameter AI image model, for free non-commercial use on HuggingFace. It runs on standard hardware and supports ComfyUI, HuggingFace Diffusers, and TensorRT. According to Black Forest Labs and Artificial Analysis, it performs better than models like Gemini-Flash Image in most benchmarks. Optimized versions are available for Nvidia's new Blackwell architecture. For commercial use, licenses start at $999 per month via Black Forest Labs' license portal.

Bar charts show FLUX.1 Context [dev] with peak values for character preservation, editing accuracy, style transfer, and text input compared to other image AI models.
FLUX.1 context [dev] scores higher than many competing models in all six categories. | Image: Black Forest Labs
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OpenAI is ramping up its enterprise AI consulting business, charging at least $10 million per client, according to The Information. The company's engineers work directly with organizations to adapt models like GPT-4o to their specific data and build custom applications, including chatbots. The push puts OpenAI in direct competition with established players like Palantir and Accenture. The team handling these projects is known internally as "Forward Deployed Engineers" (FDE).

Services go beyond model customization. OpenAI also offers data labeling, where experts review and correct AI-generated answers. Insiders say OpenAI is considering outsourcing this work to specialists like Snorkel AI and Surge AI. Its customer list includes the US Department of Defense and Southeast Asian tech company Grab.

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Huawei is open sourcing models from its Pangu series. The release includes the Pangu 7B language model with 7 billion parameters, the larger Pangu Pro MoE model with 72 billion parameters, and a model execution technology optimized for Huawei's Ascend chips. The weights for Pangu Pro MoE 72B, along with the base inference code and tools for large-scale MoE models, are already available on GitCode. Huawei says the Pangu 7B model will be released soon. The announcement comes after Baidu open sourced its Ernie model 4.5.

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Elon Musk's AI company xAI has raised $10 billion in funding, split evenly between equity and debt, according to The Information. Morgan Stanley, which handled the debt financing, said the mix lowers capital costs and gives xAI broader access to funding. The bank did not disclose details about the investors involved. Back in December, xAI secured $6 billion from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and MGX to build AI data centers and further develop Grok, its competitor to ChatGPT. xAI later acquired Musk's platform X through a share swap, pushing the company's valuation to $113 billion.

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