Bluesky, a decentralized social network, recently shared that it’s become a growing traffic source for online publishers. The blog post included quotes and data from several well-known news outlets, showing more engagement and conversions on Bluesky than on other social media platforms. Publisher Testimonials Highlight Bluesky’s Impact Matt Karolian from The Boston Globe reported, “Traffic … Read more
Google released an open source large language model based on the technology used to create Gemini that is powerful yet lightweight, optimized to be used in environments with limited resources like on a laptop or cloud infrastructure. Gemma can be used to create a chatbot, content generation tool and pretty much anything else that a … Read more
A company can generate influential media exposure by turning internal expertise into media sources. I challenge you to use brand scoring, like count, content shares, or other vanity metrics when pitching a journalist or editor to become an expert source. The best-case scenario is that you don’t get a response. But if the media contact … Read more
Google announced it’s expanding tools within its search engine to help users better evaluate images and source credibility. The company is rolling out three updates focused on image fact-checking, surfacing contextual information about lesser-known websites, and integrating image verification into products for journalists. “Having easily accessible tools to help people verify what they see online … Read more
After being temporarily pulled from ChatGPT on July 3, 2023, the Browse with Bing feature has reappeared in the latest update of the ChatGPT iPhone app. While it had difficulty with my first request, it could browse the web and accurately answer a question about local events for the current date. It is also noticeable … Read more
Hugging Face recently introduced Falcon 180B, the largest open source Large Language Model that is said to perform as well as Google’s state of the art AI, Palm 2. And it also has no guardrails to keep it from creating unsafe of harmful outputs. Falcon 180B Achieves State Of The Art Performance The phrase “state … Read more
Open source AI platforms are helping humanity move toward a futuristic world faster than most anticipated. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google have had an outrageous month in the artificial intelligence (AI) space, and this field keeps accelerating. What is open source AI? Defining this term requires understanding a few others. Open source is a software development … Read more
Databricks announced the release of the first open source instruction-tuned language model, called Dolly 2.0. It was trained using similar methodology as InstructGPT but with a claimed higher quality dataset that is 100% open source. This model is free to use, including for commercial purposes, because every part of the model is 100% open source. … Read more
We’re all Bard beginners right now, and so there are no foolish questions. Unsurprisingly, I’ve started out with Bard by asking it local business questions. As I chatted, I learned some useful things from and about Google’s nascent AI chat that you’ll need to know if this technology becomes part of your customers’ lives. My … Read more
Open Source GPT Chat took another step forward with the release of the Dolly Large Language Model (DLL) created by the Databricks enterprise software company. The new ChatGPT clone is called Dolly, named after the famous sheep of that name, the first mammal to be cloned. Open Source Large Language Models The Dolly LLM is … Read more
Mozilla announced the founding of an open source initiative for developing AI that puts transparency, accountability and trustworthiness at the forefront of the open source AI products they will build to challenge Microsoft, OpenAI and Google. Many of the most important software products that make modern life possible, like Android, WordPress, PHP, Nginx and Apache … Read more
This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Abhinav in New Delhi, who writes: “How can article aggregator sites outperform the original source? Google has various guidelines on aggregator copy not performing well, and much is said of not showing duplicate content across the web. Yet RSS aggregator sites URLs are indexed, even knowing it’s … Read more
