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Zamba2-7B
Zyphra is excited to release Zamba2-7B, a state-of-the-art small language model. At the 7B scale, we outperform the leading models of Mistral, Google’s Gemma and Meta’s Llama3 series in both quality and performance.
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Faster convergence for diffusion models
Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think
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Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning
On one side, LLMs show unseen capabilities in reasoning, but on the other - reasoning in LLMs is not ideal.
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FLUX is fast and it's open source
FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can see exactly how they work and build upon them.
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Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
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INTELLECT–1: Launching the First Decentralized Training of a 10B Parameter Model
We're excited to launch INTELLECT-1, the first globally-distributed training run of a 10-billion-parameter model, inviting anyone to contribute compute and participate. This brings us one step closer towards open source AGI.
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LLMs don't do formal reasoning
Important new study from Apple
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Initial CUDA Performance Lessons
I am somehow very late to learning CUDA. I didn’t even know until recently that CUDA is just C++ with a small amount of extra stuff. If I had known that there is so little friction to learnin…
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Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was divided, one half awarded to David Baker "for computational protein design", the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper "for protein structure prediction"
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Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor
His boundless ambition is putting AI, and the world, on a dangerous path.
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Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon
Google’s NotebookLLM is the first AI podcast I’d actually listen to. Give it a web page or document, and it will generate you a podcast about it.
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AI is an impediment to learning web development
Some thoughts on AI and LLMs, based on being Head of Engineering for JumboCode , a club of 180 students at Tufts University that builds software for non-profits.
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Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership
Today, Waymo and Hyundai Motor Company announced they have entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership.
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Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI
YC is at our best when backing founders with an ethos of building for others, including strong open source developers like the founders of Continue [https://continue.dev] and many others. Earlier this week, a startup in the current batch, PearAI, was criticized online for an inappropriate approach to open source…
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Separating code reasoning and editing
An Architect model describes how to solve the coding problem, and an Editor model translates that into file edits. This Architect/Editor approach produces SOTA benchmark results.
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The real data wall is billions of years of evolution
Careful with those human analogies
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Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Introducing canvas
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OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown
Breaking down revenue growth, the consumer subscription businesses and the importance of partnerships to the API business
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OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog
I’m at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco, and I’m trying something new: a live blog, where this entry will be updated with new notes during the event. See OpenAI DevDay: …
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Liquid Foundation Models: Our First Series of Generative AI Models
Announcing Liquid Foundation Models: state-of-the-art local AI with a smaller memory footprint and faster inference.
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NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now. It generates a one-off custom podcast against content you provide, where …
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Do AI companies work?
The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.
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In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation?
"Lorem ipsum is latin, slightly jumbled, the remnants of a passage from Cicero's _de Finibus_ 1.10.32, which begins 'Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...' [There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is…
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I Taught My 8yo Subduction Zones with NotebookLM
Principal AI Architect. Creator of open-strix, a harness for building agent teams. Writing about AI architecture, stateful agents, and what happens when you give AI memory.
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PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao
We’re happy to officially launch torchao, a PyTorch native library that makes models faster and smaller by leveraging low bit dtypes, quantization and sparsity. torchao is an accessible toolkit of techniques written...
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AMD Unveils Its First Small Language Model AMD-135M
The AMD Community is entering an exciting new phase—growing into a broader ecosystem of dedicated resources designed to better support and connect you.
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How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
Our AI method has accelerated and optimized chip design, and its superhuman chip layouts are used in hardware around the world. AlphaChip was one of the first reinforcement learning approaches used to solve a real-world engineering problem. It generates superhuman or comparable chip layouts in hours, rather than weeks…