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vllm deepseek-v3 llamaindex openai deepseek qdrant twilio llamaindex elevenlabs training-efficiency parallelism cpu-offloading gradient-descent mixture-of-experts fp8-precision memory-optimization ai-voice-assistants coding-assistants document-processing version-control learning-rate-schedules federated-learning agentic-systems multi-agent-systems deliberative-alignment chain-of-thought on-device-ai multimodality francois-fleuret daniel-hanchen aaron-defazio fchollet elad-gil wojciech-zaremba richard-socher
ChatGPT, Sora, and the OpenAI API experienced a >5 hour outage but are now restored. Updates to vLLM enable DeepSeek-V3 to run with enhanced parallelism and CPU offloading, improving model deployment flexibility. Discussions on gradient descent in top-k routing MoE and adoption of FP8 precision focus on training efficiency and memory optimization. AIDE, an AI voice medical assistant by Team Therasync, leverages Qdrant, OpenAI, and Twilio. DeepSeek-Engineer offers AI-powered coding assistance with structured outputs. LlamaIndex integrates LlamaCloud and ElevenLabs for large-scale document processing and voice interaction. Insights on version control with ghstack and advocacy for linear decay learning rate schedules highlight best practices in AI development. Experts predict smaller, tighter models, true multimodal models, and on-device AI in 2025. Proposals for planetary-scale federated learning and community AGI moonshots emphasize future AI directions. Discussions on agentic systems, multi-agent workflows, and deliberative alignment through chain of thought reasoning underscore AI safety and alignment efforts.
AdamW -> AaronD?
claude-3-opus llama-3 llama-3-300m bert-large stable-diffusion-1.5 wdxl openai hugging-face optimizer machine-learning-benchmarks vision time-series-forecasting image-generation prompt-injection policy-enforcement aaron-defazio
Aaron Defazio is gaining attention for proposing a potential tuning-free replacement of the long-standing Adam optimizer, showing promising experimental results across classic machine learning benchmarks like ImageNet ResNet-50 and CIFAR-10/100. On Reddit, Claude 3 Opus has surpassed all OpenAI models on the LMSys leaderboard, while a user pretrained a LLaMA-based 300M model outperforming bert-large on language modeling tasks with a modest budget. The new MambaMixer architecture demonstrates promising results in vision and time series forecasting. In image generation, Stable Diffusion 1.5 with LoRAs achieves realistic outputs, and the WDXL release showcases impressive capabilities. AI applications include an AI-generated Nike spec ad and a chatbot built with OpenAI models that may resist prompt injections. OpenAI is reportedly planning a ban wave targeting policy violators and jailbreak users. "The high alpha seems to come from Aaron Defazio," highlighting his impactful work in optimizer research.