Snowflake Inc.'s talks to acquire startup Reka AI for more than $1 billion have broken down, dashing an effort by the software company to bring more generative AI muscle in-house.

Researchers from Reka Technologies have introduced Vibe-Eval, an advanced benchmark for evaluating multimodal language models.

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEA startup focused on building custom AI models for big businesses has announced the public launch of Reka Core, a multimodal language model capable of processing text, image, video, and audio inputs.Enterprise software firm Reka AI was founded in 2022 by researchers from Google’s DeepMind, Chinese tech giant Baidu, and Meta. It's already raised $60 million in funding from investors including New York Life Ventures, Radical Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, DST Global, and investor entrepreneur Nat Friedman.Reka Core is the company's largest and most capable model to date. And Reka AI—referencing its own tests—says it stands up well against many much larger, well-funded models. In a research paper aggregating the results of several synthetic benchmarks, Reka claims its Core model can compete with AI tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.One of the key metrics is the MMMU, the Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning benchmark. It's a dataset designed to test the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in multimodal understanding and reasoning at a level comparable to human experts.ADAD"Core is comparable to GPT-4V on MMMU, outperforms Claude-3 Opus on our multimodal human evaluation conducted by an independent third party, and surpasses Gemini Ultra on video tasks," Reka AI said in its research paper