Microsoft’s Phi-1.5: A Game-Changing 1.3 Billion-Parameter Language Model

September 12, 2023 – Microsoft Research Institute unveiled its latest innovation yesterday: the phi-1.5, a groundbreaking pre-trained language model boasting a staggering 1.3 billion parameters. This new model promises to excel in a wide range of applications, including QA (Question-Answer) systems, chatbots, and even code generation. Phi-1.5 draws its strength from a diverse range of…

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TikTok and ByteDance Sued for Unauthorized Collection of Children’s Data

August 03, 2024 – On Friday local time, the U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, alleging failures to protect children’s privacy on the social media platform, according to Bloomberg. The U.S. government claimed that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires parental consent before collecting…

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