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Mark Probert

·1 min read
News

Linebreak and New Icon join forces to deliver innovative real-time solutions

Linebreak UK, a leader in enterprise real-time solutions, is pleased to announce a merger with New Icon, specialists in design-led software and AI engineering. The merger will create a focused capability enabling enterprises to become real-time businesses for efficiency and growth in a fast-moving, distributed world.  

Bristol-based New Icon brings 15+ years’ experience in delivering ambitious IoT, digital and AI solutions through agile design-thinking and engineering. Linebreak leverages decades of architecture expertise and a unique technology ecosystem, enabling enterprises to harness distributed and edge AI solutions.  

Linebreak CEO, Dolo Miah, explained, “together Linebreak and New Icon will deliver the next

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Tom Ferris

·4 min read
AI

The OpenAi irony. Is Meta the real “Open” AI?

The OpenAi irony. Is Meta the real “Open” AI.

In April, Meta teased a groundbreaking open-source AI model to rival the best private models from companies like OpenAI. Today, they deliver with Llama 3.1, boasting 405 billion parameters, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks.

Key Highlights:

  • Performance: Llama 3.1 outshines major competitors and is now available in more countries and languages.
  • Scale: Trained with over 16,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.
  • Accessibility: Meta offers Llama 3.1 under an open-source license, promoting its use like Linux in the OS market.
  • Data Use: Meta used
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