Why is the leading model named Palmyra? The name comes from “the ancient city located in present day Syria, where Queen Zenobia rebelled against Rome and established the Palmyrene Empire,” according to Writer’s blog post on the model family, an evocation of female leadership that honors others such as Habib. “The last mile of quality is the hardest,” Habib said in the release.
What about the performance? There too, Writer has room to brag: The company’s Palmyra “ranked first in three important tests,” using the Stanford HELM benchmarking system for AI models, “scoring 0.609 on Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU), 0.896 on BoolQ, and 0.413 on Natural Questions, outperforming models by OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and more. Writer says its AI models are trained on upwards of “1 trillion tokens of formal and business writing containing no IP or copyrighted content,” according to an email from May Habib, CEO and co-founder of Writer, provided exclusively to VentureBeat by a spokesperson. Trained on non-copyrighted, enterprise-friendly data sources Some of the models are tailored for specific industries like healthcare and are fully auditable-a unique selling point in a field often criticized for its “black box” nature. The company said in its press release today that it is targeting people working in “support, operations, product, sales, HR, marketing, and more,” functions.
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While the B2B software market has for the last six months been absolutely inundated with new generative AI tools and applications - many of them making use of large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Meta Platforms’ Llama 2 - Writer aims to stand out with its in-house AI models. Writer’s Palymra models assist with functions across enterprises One, PalmyraMed, is specifically designed for medical and healthcare clients. The company has 14 different AI models available, including Palmyra Small (128M), Palmyra Base (5B), and Palmyra Large (20B), which can already help enterprises do everything from create content and emails to transcribe audio and summarize it. The money will help Writer continue to build out more new features and AI agents for its “full stack” of enterprise-friendly software applications and connections its proprietary AI models.
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