Introducing Fuyu-Heavy, our new multimodal model. Fuyu-Heavy is the world’s third-most-capable multimodal model, behind only GPT4-V and Gemini Ultra, which are 10-20 times larger. In particular, it outperforms Gemini Pro at both MMLU and MMMU...

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Today we’re opening access to Adept Experiments 🧪, a new way to explore the technology we are developing at Adept. Each experiment is a self-contained mini-tool or demo that showcases a part of our underlying tech.

adept.ai/blog/experimen…

We’re open-sourcing a multimodal model: Fuyu-8B! Building useful AI agents requires fast foundation models that can see the visual world.

Fuyu-8B performs well at standard image understanding benchmarks, but it also can do a bunch of new stuff (below)

adept.ai/blog/fuyu-8b

After much hard work, we’re excited about a series of releases coming up this fall! We’re starting with a small appetizer: we’re open-sourcing Persimmon-8B, the most capable fully permissively-licensed language model with <10B parameters.

Details here: adept.ai/blog/persimmon…

I’m somehow still surprised at how much of the actual negotiation for $XXM deals happens over iMessage

I joined Adept last month and we are hiring! We need SWEs, Research Scientists & Research Engineers. We're about 40 people, we've raised $415M from top investors, and we've got some incredible in house LLMs we're building on top of. If you're interested, please reach out!

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