Midjourney’s surprise: new research on making LLMs write more creatively

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Midjourney is best known as one of the leading AI image generators — with nearly 20 million users on its Discord channel, according to third-party trackers, and presumably more atop that on its website — but its ambitions are beginning to expand. Following the news in late summer 2024 that it was building its own computing and AI hardware, the company this week released a new research paper alongside machine learning experts at New York University (NYU) on training text-based large language models (LLMs) such as Meta’s open source Llama and Mistral’s eponymous source models to write more creatively. The collaboration, documented in a new research paper published on AI code community Hugging Face, introduces two new technieques — Diversified Direct Preference Optimization (DDPO) and Diversified Odds Ratio Preference Optimization (DORPO)— designed to expand th ... Read full article.