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LlamaCon: Meta AI gets into the Llama API platform business
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Meta celebrated progress in the Llama ecosystem at LlamaCon, launching an AI Developer platform with finetuning and fast inference powered by Cerebras and Groq hardware, though it remains waitlisted. Meanwhile, Alibaba released the Qwen3 family of large language models, including two MoE models and six dense models ranging from 0.6B to 235B parameters, with the flagship Qwen3-235B-A22B achieving competitive benchmark results and supporting 119 languages and dialects. The Qwen3 models are optimized for coding and agentic capabilities, are Apache 2.0 licensed, and have broad deployment support including local usage with tools like vLLM, Ollama, and llama.cpp. Community feedback highlights Qwen3's scalable performance and superiority over models like OpenAI's o3-mini.
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OpenAI announced plans for GPT-4.5 (Orion) and GPT-5, with GPT-5 integrating the o3 model and offering unlimited chat access in the free tier. DeepSeek R1 Distilled Qwen 1.5B outperforms OpenAI's o1-preview on math benchmarks, while ModernBERT 0.3b surpasses Qwen 0.5b at MMLU without fine-tuning. Mistral and Perplexity adopt Cerebras hardware for 10x performance gains. OpenAI's o3 model won a gold medal at the 2024 International Olympiad in Informatics. Partnerships include Qwen with Groq. Significant RLHF activity is noted in Nigeria and the global south, and Bytedance is expected to rise in AI prominence soon. "GPT5 is all you need."
not much happened today
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Zyphra AI launched Zonos-v0.1, a leading open-weight text-to-speech model supporting multiple languages and zero-shot voice cloning. Meta FAIR released the open-source Audiobox Aesthetics model trained on 562 hours of audio data. Kyutai Labs introduced Moshi, a real-time speech-to-speech system with low latency. Perplexity AI announced the Sonar model based on Llama 3.3 70b, outperforming top models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet with 1200 tokens/second speed, powered by Cerebras infrastructure. UC Berkeley open-sourced a 1.5B model trained with reinforcement learning that beats o1-preview on math tasks. ReasonFlux-32B achieved 91.2% on the MATH benchmark, outperforming OpenAI o1-preview. CrossPoster, an AI agent for cross-platform posting, was released using LlamaIndex workflows. Brilliant Labs integrated the Google DeepMind Gemini Live API into smart glasses for real-time translation and object identification.
Perplexity starts Shopping for you
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Stripe launched their Agent SDK, enabling AI-native shopping experiences like Perplexity Shopping for US Pro members, featuring one-click checkout and free shipping via the Perplexity Merchant Program. Mistral AI released the Pixtral Large 124B multi-modal image model, now on Hugging Face and supported by Le Chat for image generation. Cerebras Systems offers a public inference endpoint for Llama 3.1 405B with a 128k context window and high throughput. Claude 3.6 shows improvements over Claude 3.5 but with subtle hallucinations. The Bi-Mamba 1-bit architecture improves LLM efficiency. The wandb SDK is preinstalled on Google Colab, and Pixtral Large is integrated into AnyChat and supported by vLLM for efficient model usage.
s{imple|table|calable} Consistency Models
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Model distillation significantly accelerates diffusion models, enabling near real-time image generation with only 1-4 sampling steps, as seen in BlinkShot and Flux Schnell. Research led by Yang Song introduced simplified continuous-time consistency models (sCMs), achieving under 10% FID difference in just 2 steps and scaling up to 1.5B parameters for higher quality. On AI hardware, Tesla is deploying a 50k H100 cluster potentially capable of completing GPT-4 training in under three weeks, while Cerebras Systems set a new inference speed record on Llama 3.1 70B with their wafer-scale AI chips. Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3.5 and its Turbo variant, and Cohere launched new multilingual models supporting 23 languages with state-of-the-art performance. LangChain also announced ecosystem updates.
State of AI 2024
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Nathan Benaich's State of AI Report in its 7th year provides a comprehensive overview of AI research and industry trends, including highlights like BitNet and the synthetic data debate. Cerebras is preparing for an IPO, reflecting growth in AI compute. A hackathon hosted by Daily and the Pipecat community focuses on conversational voice AI and multimodal experiences with $20,000 in prizes. Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry were awarded for AI research: Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield for neural networks and statistical mechanics, and Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and David Baker for AlphaFold and protein structure prediction. Meta released Llama 3.2 with multimodal capabilities, accompanied by educational resources and performance updates. "This recognizes the impact of deep neural networks on society" and "tremendous impact of AlphaFold and ML-powered protein structure prediction" were noted by experts.
not much happened today + AINews Podcast?
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Glean doubled its valuation again. Dan Hendrycks' Superforecaster AI generates plausible election forecasts with interesting prompt engineering. A Stanford study found that LLM-generated research ideas are statistically more novel than those by expert humans. SambaNova announced faster inference for llama-3 models, surpassing Cerebras. Benjamin Clavie gave a notable talk on retrieval-augmented generation techniques. Strawberry is reported to launch in two weeks. Google Illuminate offers AI-generated podcast discussions about papers and books. Apple unveiled new AI features in iOS 18, including visual intelligence and improved Siri, with on-device and cloud processing for camera-based event additions. The Reflection 70B model sparked controversy over performance claims. Experts highlighted the unreliability of traditional benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval, recommending alternative evaluation methods such as LMSys Chatbot Arena and Hugging Face's open-sourced Lighteval suite. The AI research community continues to explore AI's role in generating novel research ideas and improving benchmarking.
Cerebras Inference: Faster, Better, AND Cheaper
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Groq led early 2024 with superfast LLM inference speeds, achieving ~450 tokens/sec for Mixtral 8x7B and 240 tokens/sec for Llama 2 70B. Cursor introduced a specialized code edit model hitting 1000 tokens/sec. Now, Cerebras claims the fastest inference with their wafer-scale chips, running Llama3.1-8b at 1800 tokens/sec and Llama3.1-70B at 450 tokens/sec at full precision, with competitive pricing and a generous free tier. Google's Gemini 1.5 models showed significant benchmark improvements, especially Gemini-1.5-Flash and Gemini-1.5-Pro. New open-source models like CogVideoX-5B and Mamba-2 (Rene 1.3B) were released, optimized for consumer hardware. Anthropic's Claude now supports prompt caching, improving speed and cost efficiency. "Cerebras Inference runs Llama3.1 20x faster than GPU solutions at 1/5 the price."