Granite 3.0, NVIDIA’s Nemotron AI model, and Perplexity’s fundraising

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Learn more about artificial intelligence → https://ibm.biz/BdaG95 IBM announces new products at TechXchange → https://ibm.biz/BdaG9N Can chat replace search? In Episode 26 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by Kate Soule, Kush Varshney and Petros Zerfos for IBM TechXchange week! First, the experts describe how the team created the Granite 3.0 models. Next, NVIDIA enters the open source model game, what does this mean for the competition? Finally, Perplexity AI is seeking over double their valuation in new funding rounds, what does this mean for start-ups? All that and more on today’s episode. Intro - 0:00 TechXchange - 0:30 Perplexity’s fundraising - 21:37 NVIDIA’s Nemotron AI model - 30:42 The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity. Subscribe for AI updates → https://ibm.biz/BdaG97

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