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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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The ERGO Innovation Lab and ECODYNAMICS teamed up to analyze how insurance content shows up in AI-powered search. Their study looked at over 33,000 AI search results and 600 websites, focusing on which types of content large language models like ChatGPT tend to surface. The results show that LLMs favor content that is easy to read, well-structured, and trustworthy - all traits associated with classic SEO. Modular content, presented in a question-and-answer style, and well-linked internally is also more likely to show up in AI-generated answers, just as in classic SEO.

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The study also looked at hallucination rates. ChatGPT had the highest rate, with just under ten percent of its responses containing inaccuracies, while you.com delivered much more reliable results. These findings apply specifically to insurance-related queries.

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