2024 is the biggest global election year in history. What’s at stake for developers?

GitHub is considering what is at stake for our users and platform, how we can take responsible action to support free and fair elections, and how developers contribute to resilient democratic processes.

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Lightweight Champ: NVIDIA Releases Small Language Model With State-of-the-Art Accuracy

Developers of generative AI typically face a tradeoff between model size and accuracy. But a new language model released by NVIDIA delivers the best of both, providing state-of-the-art accuracy in a compact form factor. Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B — a miniaturized version of the open Mistral NeMo 12B model released by Mistral AI and NVIDIA last month
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Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity

Discover how the Ersilia Open Source Initiative accelerates drug discovery by using GitHub Actions to disseminate AI/ML models.

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How GitHub harnesses AI to transform customer feedback into action

Learn how we’re experimenting with open source AI models to systematically incorporate customer feedback to supercharge our product roadmaps.

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How researchers are using GitHub Innovation Graph data to estimate the impact of ChatGPT

An interview with economic researchers who are applying causal inference techniques to analyze the effect of generative AI tools on software development activity.

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Highlights from Git 2.46

Git 2.46 is here with new features like pseudo-merge bitmaps, more capable credential helpers, and a new git config command. Check out our coverage on some of the highlights here.

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Llama 3.1, Mistral Large 2, AWS Step Functions, AWS Certifications update, and more (July 29, 2024)

I’m always amazed by the talent and passion of our Amazon Web Services (AWS) community members, especially in their efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech community. Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the AWS User Group Women Bay Area meetup, led by Natalie. This group is dedicated to […]

AI, Go Fetch! New NVIDIA NeMo Retriever Microservices Boost LLM Accuracy and Throughput

Generative AI applications have little, or sometimes negative, value without accuracy — and accuracy is rooted in data. To help developers efficiently fetch the best proprietary data to generate knowledgeable responses for their AI applications, NVIDIA today announced four new NVIDIA NeMo Retriever NIM inference microservices. Combined with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices for the Llama
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