Apple Releases Open Source Multimodal Machine Learning Model 'Ferret'


The open-source AI platform Hugging Face has refused a $5 billion investment from NVIDIA, drawing industry attention. As a globally active AI model library, this move is not due to financial sufficiency, as it has previously received investments from giants like NVIDIA.
The Stepwise Star open-source multimodal vision-language model Step3-VL-10B excels in multiple benchmark tests with only 10B parameters, solving the problem of insufficient intelligence in small models. The model achieves the best performance in its scale in visual perception, logical reasoning, and math competitions, even surpassing open-source and closed-source flagship models that are 10 to 20 times larger in size.
The AI research platform Manifold AI (Manifold Space), jointly established by Tsinghua University, Uber, and Manifold AI, has recently completed a pre-A round funding exceeding 100 million yuan. The platform focuses on supporting scientific research, especially in the debugging of machine learning models. Its core functions include scientific research support, data management, analysis collaboration tools, etc., aiming to promote innovation and development in the fields of scientific research and machine learning.
Musk announced that the new algorithm of the X platform will be open-sourced next week, including core code for content recommendation and ad delivery. This move aims to improve transparency and respond to public concerns about social media content distribution mechanisms. The X platform's open-source code had not been updated for three years prior to this.
The Meta's Llama 4 project was exposed as a 'data embellishment' scandal, with the former chief scientist, Yan Lequin, admitting that the team adjusted data to optimize benchmark test results. This behavior has sparked controversy, revealing management deviations in Meta's AI technology development. Previously, the Llama series was highly regarded for its open-source strategy, but this incident may impact its reputation.