February 2024 Release Notes
OctoAI product updates and release notes for February 2024
Added
February 29, 2024
OctoAI Text Gen Solution adds several new OSS large language models, including:
- Gemma-7B-Instruct, a new open source model from Google.
- Smaug-72B-v0.1, a fine tune of the Qwen1.0 family of models that shows impressive leaderboard performance.
- Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO, a fine tune of the powerful Mixtral-8x7b model, offered as the “flagship” checkpoint of Nous Research (the current best producer of open source fine tunes for popular models).
Additionally, OctoAI releases SecureLink, which is a private connectivity security measure, ensuring that network traffic between an OctoAI endpoint and the customer environment is not exposed to the public internet. SecureLink is available for Enterprise customers.
Added
February 16, 2024
OctoAI launches Photo Merge feature for Image Gen Solution
- Seamlessly integrate a photos subject (person) into high-quality AI-generated output.
- This eliminates the need for custom facial fine-tunes and requires only 1-4 images.
Added
February 1, 2024
OctoAI launches the GTE Large embeddings model, available via API.
- GTE models were trained by Alibaba DAMO Academy on large-scale corpus of relevant text pairs covering a myriad of scenarios. - Embedding models extract meaning from raw data and turn it into a vector representation, which is used to enhance llms.