Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems like GitHub Copilot, as part of their BigCode project  —  AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Discord plans to drop the four-digit tag after its usernames to make it “easier to connect” with others and force most users to pick a username with an @ prefix  —  Discord is taking away the four-digit tag that it puts after its usernames as it looks to make it “easier to connect” with other users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft is helping finance AMD’s expansion into AI chips and working with the chipmaker on Athena, Microsoft’s homegrown processor for AI workloads  —  Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Sources: Google, a prolific publisher of AI papers, plans to share them only after the research work is turned into products, due to competition with OpenAI  —  For years the tech giant published scientific research that helped jump-start its competitors.  But now it’s lurched into defensive mode. Lees verder op Tech Meme