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30th June 2023 - Link Blog

Databricks Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire MosaicML, a Leading Generative AI Platform. MosaicML are the team behind MPT-7B and MPT-30B, two of the most impressive openly licensed LLMs. They just got acquired by Databricks for $1.3 billion dollars.

Posted 30th June 2023 at 1:43 am

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