Perplexity open-sources 27B and 4B two multimodal decision models that support classification, scoring, and judgment tasks. The official statement says inference speed improves by up to 5 times in some scenarios, while API input prices start at per million Token 0.01 USD。
PANews reports that Nous Research, the developer of the open-source agent Hermes, completed a financing round at a 1500000000 USD valuation, completing 90000000 USD financing, and plans to bring AI assistant tools to enterprise users.
Beating AI reported that AI startup Interfaze has open-sourced interfaze-1-lite, integrating OCR, speech recognition, image segmentation, classification, and forecasting models through a unified interface.