Databricks announced its new AI model, DBRX: Spent $10M

Generative AI models are grabbing the attention today. Whether talking about investors or looking at tech projects, all are focusing on the new AI models to stand out in the market. After spending months and around $10M on their new AI project Databricks announced their new AI model DBRX.

Dbrx is now available on GitHub and the AI dev platform Hugging Face for research purposes and also for commercial use.

“DBRX was trained to be useful and provide information on a wide variety of topics,” Naveen Rao, VP of generative AI at Databricks, said in his interview. “DBRX has been optimized and tuned for English language usage, but is capable of conversing and translating into a wide variety of languages, such as French, Spanish and German.”

Databricks announced its new model as akin to the OpenAI model ChatGPT and Google Gemini. It is an open-source model like Meta’s Llama 2. Databricks says that “it spent roughly $10 million and two months training DBRX, which it claims (quoting from a press release) outperform[s] all existing open source models on standard benchmarks.”

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However, if you are not a Databricks customer, you may face a few difficulties in using the new model. If you are interested in using this new AI model you will need a server or PC with at least four Nvidia H100 GPUs. if we talk about the Nvidia H100, then a single H100 can cost you thousands of dollars, which is quite expensive for an individual or a startup business.

Additionally, Databricks says that -” companies with more than 700 million active users will face “certain restrictions” comparable to Meta’s for Llama 2, and that all users will have to agree to terms ensuring that they use DBRX “responsibly.” (Databricks hadn’t volunteered those terms’ specifics as of publication time.)”

However, the company is planning to bring its Mosaic AI Foundation Model, in order to come up with these types of issues.

The company says-” We’re focused on making the Databricks platform the best choice for customized model building, so ultimately the benefit to Databricks is more users on our platform. DBRX is a demonstration of our best-in-class pre-training and tuning platform, which customers can use to build their own models from scratch. It’s an easy way for customers to get started with the Databricks Mosaic AI generative AI tools. And DBRX is highly capable out-of-the-box and can be tuned for excellent performance on specific tasks at better economics than large, closed models.”