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While cloud adoption has been top of mind for many IT professionals for nearly a decade, it’s only in recent months, with industry changes and announcements from key players, that many recognize the time to make the move is now. It may feel like a daunting task, but tools exist to help you move your virtual machines (VMs) to a public cloud provider – like Microsoft Azure

While cloud adoption has been top of mind for many IT professionals for nearly a decade, it’s only in recent months, with industry changes and announcements from key players, that many recognize the time to make the move is now. It may feel like a daunting task, but tools exist to help you move your virtual machines (VMs) to a public cloud provider – like Microsoft AzureThe Hacker Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Klíčovou službou Googlu je samozřejmě vyhledávač, a tak generativní AI začala už dříve pronikat i do něj. Stačilo položit komplexní dotaz v přirozeném jazyce a Google syntetizoval odpověď podobně jako ostatní AI chatboti – právě pomocí velkého jazykového modelu Gemini. Říká tomu mimo jiné AI ...

V Gitu bylo nalezeno 5 zranitelností. Opraveny jsou ve verzích 2.45.1, 2.44.1, 2.43.4, 2.42.2, 2.41.1, 2.40.2 a 2.39.4. Útočník může připravit repozitář tak, že při jeho klonování (git clone) může dojít ke spuštění libovolného kódu.

Ať souhlasíte nebo ne, takhle bychom poskládali sérii GTA my. Jaké díly se umístily na vrcholu vašich žebříčků?

Je tady květen a ti, kdo se chystají sestavit si novou mašinu budou mít příležitost obětovat větší částku za hardwarové komponenty, nebo přidat si za nějaké další licence, které hned nenašli na Goodoffer24.com, zde mají velké slevy nabízené v porovnání s oficiálními ceníky.

ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini all run on servers in distant data centers, even as the PC industry works on moving generative AI (genAI) chatbots onto your PC. But you don’t have to wait for that to happen — in a few clicks, you can already install and run large language models (LLMs) on your own Windows PC.

These open-source AI chatbots offer big benefits: You can use them without an internet connection, and your conversations and data will stay on your PC — not sent off to a server somewhere. Also, you can choose from a wide variety of different genAI models built with different purposes in mind.

It’s clear why this is the future of AI in business and everywhere else: Everyone will be able to run chatbots that fit their needs on their own hardware, ensuring sensitive data isn’t sent off to another company’s data center.

Microsoft is likely on the cusp of announcing the ability to run parts of Copilot locally on your computer — that’s the point of the neural processing units in new PCs and the big “AI PC” push in general. But you can get an open-source AI chatbot on your PC this minute, if you know where to look.

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How to run private AI chatbots with Ollama

Ollama is an open-source project that makes it easy to install and run genAI models — those chatbots, in other words — on Windows PCs. There’s no configuration required: Ollama will automatically use available PC hardware — like powerful NVIDIA graphics hardware — to accelerate the AI models, if necessary. The response speed will depend on the hardware in your computer, but it’ll work on a wide range of PCs.

The tool is named after Meta’s Llama LLM, but you can use it to download and run a wide variety of other models, including those from Google and Microsoft. All you need to do is download the installer, click the “Install” button, and type three words to pull up your chatbot of choice. It is a text-based interface — but chatbots are text-based interfaces already.

To install and use Ollama, head to the Ollama website. Download and run the installer for Windows PCs — it works on both Windows 10 and 11. (Ollama also runs on macOS and Linux.) Just run the setup file and click “Install” — it’s a simple, one-click process.

Once that’s done, you click the Ollama notification that appears. Or, you can just open a command-line window: Terminal, Command Prompt, or PowerShell will all work.

To do this, right-click your Start button or press Windows+X. Then, click the “Terminal,” “Command Prompt,” or “Windows PowerShell” option in the menu. To run the Llama2 AI model for which Ollama is named, just type the following command at the command line and press Enter: ollama run llama2

You only have to type three words to use Ollama.

Chris Hoffman, IDG

That’s it! Ollama will do all the work, downloading the AI model and the files it requires. You’ll see a progress bar at the command line while it finishes the download.

It might take a few minutes to get what you need the first time; Ollama is downloading a few gigabytes of data (about 3.8 GB). So, much depends on the speed of your connection. When it’s ready, you’ll see the following line:

>>> Send a message (/? for help)

You can then type a message and press Enter. You’ll get a response from the AI chatbot you downloaded — the llama2 model, in this case.

Type a message at the prompt to converse with your chosen chatbot.

Chris Hoffman, IDG

Remember, once downloaded this is all running 100% on your computer. You can use it entirely offline, if you like — you’re not depending on a big company’s servers and your conversations remain private on your device.

Want to copy and paste text from an email or document? You can copy text from the terminal with the mouse — select the text and right click. To paste text, right-click in the terminal. Simple!

You can type /bye and press Enter to close the session with your chatbot.

You can continue a conversation by sending multiple messages back and forth, naturally.

Chris Hoffman, IDG

When you want to use it again, you use the same command:

ollama run llama2

This time, since the chatbot files have already been downloaded, you’ll be able to use it instantly.

The Ollama website has a long list of AI models you can install and try. For example, you can try Meta’s new Llama3 model, Microsoft’s Phi-3 Mini model, Google’s Gemma model, or Mistral AI’s Mistral model. Just use the same command, and specify the model you want to use. For example, you can use the following commands:

• ollama run llama3
• ollama run phi3
• ollama run gemma
• ollama run mistral

In the future, we’ll probably see nicer graphical interfaces built on top of tools like Ollama. There’s already a great Open WebUI project that looks very similar to ChatGPT’s web interface, but requires Docker to install — it’s not quite as “click and run” as Ollama.

Want something faster, or just want to skip the installation process? You can access many of these chatbots in your web browser with the HuggingChat tool. It’s a free web interface for accessing these chatbots. (But with HuggingChat, they’re running on the HuggingChat servers, not on your own PC.)

Other tools for running private AI chatbots on your PC

Ollama is just one of many tools for accessing open-source chatbots. Here are a few other options worth a shot:

Nvidia’s ChatRTX requires a PC with recent Nvidia graphics hardware. Specifically, you need a PC with either an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU and at least 8GB of VRAM. If you meet that requirement, you’re getting a convenient web-based interface for models like Mistral and Llama 2, one that’s optimized for running on Nvidia’s hardware. You can also provide notes or documents and use Nvidia’s ChatRTX to “chat with your files,” asking questions about their contents. (Nvidia just added support for additional AI models like Gemma to Chat With RTX.)

You should give Nvidia’s Chat With RTX a try if you have recent Nvidia graphics hardware in your PC.

Chris Hoffman, IDG

You can also try GPT4All, which offers a nice little graphical interface. PCWorld recommended it in early February — a few weeks before Ollama launched on Windows. It’s a capable tool, but has fewer AI models available than Ollama. Like Ollama, it runs on a wide range of PC hardware — unlike Nvidia’s ChatRTX, it doesn’t need high-end recent hardware.

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Microsoft and OpenAI are joined at the hip, with Microsoft investing $13 billion in the pioneering generative AI (genAI) company; holding a seat on its board; and using OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology in its Copilot tool (now built into virtually its entire product line).

And that’s just the beginning of the relationship. The tag team of Microsoft President Brad Smith and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have lobbied elected leaders to fend off federal AI regulations, wined and dined members of Congress, and become their go-to experts about everything AI. 

When Altman was briefly ousted as OpenAI chairman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lobbied behind the scenes to get him reinstated. And he was.

The US, UK, and European Union are all worried enough about the tight Microsoft-OpenAI connection that they’re investigating it for possible anti-trust violations. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, claiming the company was founded to share its AI with the world by open sourcing its technologies, which it abandoned thanks to the relationship with Microsoft. His lawsuit claims, “OpenAI has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company, Microsoft.”

Despite all that, it’s becoming clear that the relationship is more fraught than it seems, with more than the usual behind-the-scenes sniping going on. OpenAI has tried to steal Microsoft customers and is preparing for life after its relationship with Microsoft ends. Microsoft, for its part, is investing billions into genAI technology that can compete against OpenAI, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella seems to believe he’s already got all the OpenAI tech he wants under lock and key.

More and more, the two companies seem more like frenemies than BFFs. Here’s why, and what that means.

The legal relationship: it’s complicated

The very thing that binds Microsoft and OpenAI is the thing that may tear them apart — their legal relationship. OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit company. The founders claimed they were worried that the profit motive would prevent AI from being used for good and could become a threat to humanity if developed unchecked. The founders, including Altman and Musk among others, initially funded OpenAI out of their own pockets, with a primary goal to make sure AI would be “used in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.”

When it became clear that potentially trillions of dollars could be made off AI, that altruism went out the window. The founders turned OpenAI into a “capped” for-profit company. I won’t go into the confusing details of what that means and the incomprehensible corporate structure that was created as a result. What you need to know is that it allowed OpenAI to open itself up to investors, it lets investors use and profit from OpenAI technologies — and it lets OpenAI directly compete with those investors.

If that’s not odd enough, OpenAI’s founding agreement remained in place. It says that if the company’s technology ever evolved to artificial general intelligence (AGI) — a system that thinks as well or better than human beings on a wide variety of cognitive tasks and exhibits general problem-solving skills — OpenAI had to do whatever it could to make sure the technology helped all of humanity. Its relationships with any investors would end. It could even open source all its technology.

None of that scared away Microsoft, which rapidly embraced ChatGPT as the basis of its Copilot AI line.

OpenAI takes aim at Microsoft 

Until recently, the relationship between the two companies has been all hearts and flowers, at least publicly. But that’s changed. They’re still joined at the hip, but both seem uncomfortable, even encumbered, by it.

In April, Reuters reported that Altman went to San Francisco, New York and London, courting hundreds of Fortune 500 executives in “roadshow-like events” and “pitched AI services for corporate use, going head to head in some cases with financial backer Microsoft.”

Altman and OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap delivered hard-core sales pitches for the company’s Enterprise Chat GPT tool to more than 100 executives in each of the cities. Many of those execs already use the Microsoft version of OpenAI’s technology, and asked why they should sign up for Enterprise Chat GPT.

Altman and Lightcap didn’t hold back on why they believe their version is better than Microsoft’s. According to Reuters, they told the execs it would allow enterprises “to work with the OpenAI team directly, have access to the latest models and more opportunity to get customized AI products.”

OpenAI also is doing everything it can to build an AGI system, which could allow the company to drop the Microsoft relationship entirely. Altman told students at Stanford University in early May that he will spend however much money it takes to get to AGI as quickly as possible: “Whether we burn $500 million a year or $5 billion — or $50 billion a year — I don’t care, I genuinely don’t. As long as we can figure out a way to pay the bills, we’re making AGI. It’s going to be expensive.”

Microsoft disses OpenAI 

In turn, Microsoft has made it clear it doesn’t need OpenAI; it has the technology, staff, and money it needs to build powerful AI tools on its own. Late last year, in the midst of chaos at OpenAI when Altman was fired by the OpenAI board and then hired back, Nadella said, if “OpenAI disappeared tomorrow…, we have all the IP rights and all the capability. We have the people, we have the compute, we have the data, we have everything. We are below them, above them, around them.”

Nadella made true on those words in mid-March, when the company hired Mustafa Suleyman. He co-founded AI startup DeepMind that Google bought in 2014 and is now an executive vice president, CEO of Microsoft AI, who reports directly to Nadella. Suleyman hit the ground running. The Information reports he’s already working on building a genAI product internally called MAI-1 that will directly compete with OpenAI.

BFFs or frenemies?

So, which are they, best friends or frenemies? At the moment, both. They’re still tightly engaged with one another, have deep financial ties, and continue to lobby together against tighter AI regulations. The core of Microsoft’s AI product, Copilot, continues to be OpenAI technology.

But both are also preparing for when the ties between them might break, with OpenAI going full speed ahead to develop AGI and Microsoft building an in-house competitor to ChatGPT. Neither of those technologies may come to fruition — AGI might simply not be achievable, and Microsoft might not be able to develop something better than ChatGPT. If they don’t, Microsoft and OpenAI will remain entwined. If they do, they will become competitors.

Which will it be? For now, even the most powerful AI can’t tell.

Generative AI, Microsoft, Technology Industry

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A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the defendant was redacted in the verdict, it's known that Alexey Pertsev, a 31-year-old Russian national, had been awaiting trial in the Netherlands on money laundering charges.

A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the defendant was redacted in the verdict, it's known that Alexey Pertsev, a 31-year-old Russian national, had been awaiting trial in the Netherlands on money laundering charges.Newsroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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Microsoft has addressed a total of 61 new security flaws in its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for May 2024, including two zero-days which have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 61 flaws, one is rated Critical, 59 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This is in addition to 30 vulnerabilities&

Microsoft has addressed a total of 61 new security flaws in its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for May 2024, including two zero-days which have been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 61 flaws, one is rated Critical, 59 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This is in addition to 30 vulnerabilities&Newsroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]