(All Students) Update on PolyU GenAI App
To: All Staff and Students
From: Information Technology Services Office
Subject: Update on PolyU GenAI App
Date: 2 Jul 2024
Dear all Colleagues and Students,
To keep pace with the latest developments in large language models and to bring you more sophisticated GenAI tools for teaching & learning and research activities, the following update on the PolyU GenAI app will take effect from 3 July 2024.
OpenAI GPT-4o
OpenAI released the GPT-4o in May 2024. Access via Azure Cloud regional hosting centers for text chat and image-to-text was released to Enterprise customers in June 2024. GPT-4o matches the performance of GPT-4 Turbo on English text and code benchmarks, but only costs half the token fee for both input and output.
GPT-4o will be available on the PolyU GenAI app on 3 July 2024, replacing the GPT-4 Turbo 0125 preview, the GPT-4 0613 model, as well as image-to-text using the Azure Cognitive Vision service.
Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen 通义千问 (Qwen1.5-110B-chat)
Alibaba Cloud released Tongyi Qianwen large language model Qwen1.5-110B in February 2024. The Qwen1.5-110B-chat model improved alignment with human preference during training and enhanced multilingual support covering English, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Arabic.
Qwen1.5-110B-chat was released on PolyU GenAI on 1 June 2024, replacing Qwen-72B model. The use of Qwen1.5-110B-chat model will not consume the monthly credit usage entitlement.
Mistral AI Mixtral-8x22B-instruct-v.01
Mistral AI released the Mixtral-8x22B Mixture of Expert model in April 2024. The Mixtral-8x22B model outperforms Mistral-8x7B in common sense and reasoning benchmarks, making it one of the best open-source models for complex reasoning tasks.
The Mixtral-8x22B model will be available on PolyU GenAI on 3 July 2024, replacing the Mixtral-8x7B model. The use of the Mixtral-8x22B model will not consume the monthly credit usage entitlement.
Meta Llama 3 70B
Meta released Llama 3 in April 2024. The Llama 3-70B-instruct model has been pre-trained and fine-tuned to support a broad range of use cases with improved reasoning, code generation and instruction following. Llama 3 70B has adopted both input and output safeguards in addition to model-level risks mitigations to improve use safety.
The Meta Llama 3 70B model will be available on PolyU GenAI on 3 July 2024. The use of Llama 3 70B will not consume the monthly credit entitlement.
Stable Diffusion 3.0
Stable Diffusion 3.0 was released on the Stability.ai Cloud in the first half of 2024. Stable Diffusion 3.0 leverages a family of models to generate better text / font styles within images, as well as improved image captioning, thus following user's input prompts closely.
The quality of images generated by Stable Diffusion 3.0 is much better compared to the SDXL 1.0 models.
Stable Diffusion 3.0 will be available on PolyU GenAI on 3 July 2024.
For further details on the above GenAI tools, please refer to the following documents:
GPT-4o model introduction
Hints and Tips on image-to-text using GPT-4o
Qwen1.5-110B-chat model introduction
Mixtral-8x22B model introduction
Llama 3 70B model introduction
Hints and Tips on using text-to-image for Stable Diffusion 3.0 and SDXL1.0
We encourage you to explore these AI resources and consider how to leverage such in your learning & teaching as well as research activities. If you need assistance in accessing these tools, please do not hesitate to reach out to IT support team at 2766 5900 or the IT Online ServiceDesk for assistance.
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