More and more Developers are using AI tools in their Daily Work
More topics: Microsoft's new SLM beats larger AI models, and xAI releases their most intelligent model
Hi AI Enthusiasts,
Welcome to this week's Magic AI News, where we present you the most exciting AI news of the week. Today, we are talking about the use of AI tools in companies and a new powerful AI model from Microsoft. Stay curious! 😎
This week's Magic AI tool can automatically schedule meetings at the best time across your team. Many CEOs are already using it.
Let's explore this week's AI news together. 👇🏽
In today's Magic AI:
More and more developers are using AI tools in their daily work
Microsoft's new SLM beats larger AI models
xAI releases their most intelligent model
Magic AI tool of the week: Schedule your time in no time
Hand-picked articles of the week
🎓 Our Online Courses and recommendations
Top AI news of the week
👩🏽💻 More and more developers are using AI tools in their daily work
A study by GitHub shows that most professional developers use AI tools. In the study, 2000 people from software development teams in the U.S., Brazil, India, and Germany were asked about the use of generative AI tools.
Image by GitHub
The details:
Almost everyone (more than 97%) said they had used AI tools at some point both inside and outside of work.
In the USA, 87% of companies explicitly allow AI, in Brazil 76%, in India 79%, and in Germany 59%.
14% of companies in Germany prohibit the use of AI tools.
Benefits of AI coding tools: Building more secure software, better code quality, and improved test case generation. This saves time for strategic tasks.
Our thoughts
In our opinion, the benefits of generative AI tools are growing every day, and AI assistants are particularly useful in software development.
And you don't need an expensive cloud version. AI can also be used cost-effectively on local machines in software development.
🤓 Curious how to create a local AI Coding Assistant for VSCode? Then, check out our step-by-step guide.
More information
🤖 Microsoft's new SLM beats larger AI models
Microsoft has released Phi-3.5-MoE, an advanced AI model that can rival the reasoning capabilities of much larger models. Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) is a machine learning technique that uses several expert networks (learners).
Image by Microsoft
The details:
Phi-3.5-MoE outperforms models like Meta's Llama 3.1 8B and Google's Gemma 2 9B in several benchmarks
Context length up to 128K
It performs very well in the Math and Code Generation tasks.
Compact and efficient architecture
The model is available under the MIT license on Hugging Face.
Our thoughts
Small generative AI models are becoming more and more powerful, which makes it possible to run them on computers with fewer resources, e.g.: laptops. That's great, so you can also experiment with powerful generative AI models on normal laptops.
More information
- Discover the New Multi-Lingual, High-Quality Phi-3.5 SLMs - Microsoft Tech Community
💬 xAI releases their most intelligent model
The AI startup xAI has released Grok 2 in a beta version for X Premium subscribers worldwide. It is a powerful new AI model that can access real-time data from the social media platform X.
Screenshot by authors
The details:
Access to real-time information from X, which is a big difference to other LLMs.
Grok 2 has two modes: regular and fun
You can use Grok 2 to summarize news or to generate images using the Flux.1 model
🤔 We have access to Grok. If you have any questions about Grok, please write them in the comments.
Our thoughts
One of the biggest advantages of Grok is the access to real-time data from X. If something happens in the world, you usually find it on X first. Another advantage is the powerful image generator based on the Flux.1 model, whereby only Premium+ users can generate an unlimited number of images.
We primarily use Grok to generate title images for blog articles or presentations.
✍🏽 Do you have access to Grok? What do you primarily use Grok for?
Magic AI tool of the week
🪄 Reclaim AI - Schedule your time in no time
Do you ever struggle to organize your meetings at work? Then, it is time for an intelligent calendar scheduling tool like Reclaim AI.
This tool automatically schedules meetings at the best times for your team, helping them stay focused on important work. In addition, Reclaim AI offers many integrations for favorite work tools like Slack, Zoom, Raycast, Hubspot, or Jira.
Reclaim AI is now part of Dropbox. Together, they want to redefine productivity at work. This is good news, as Reclaim AI plans to use the new resources to make the tool even more powerful. And best of all, there is a free forever version!
So what are you waiting for?
Articles of the week
📖 You might also be interested in these blog articles:
Mistral's Codestral: Create a local AI Coding Assistant for VSCode
Understand and Implement an Artificial Neural Network from Scratch
With this edition of the newsletter, we say goodbye to the summer break. The next issue will be published on September 15th.
Thanks for reading, and see you next time.
- Tinz Twins
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