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a calm before the storm
o1 o1-mini qwen2.5 gpt-4 llama-2-70b llama-7b anthropic openai alibaba microsoft blackrock groq aramco disney eth-zurich pudu-robotics slack long-context kv-cache-quantization diffusion-models reinforcement-learning robotics ai-integration multilinguality model-benchmarking model-performance model-optimization adcock_brett philschmid rohanpaul_ai jvnixon kateclarktweets sama
Anthropic is raising funds at a valuation up to $40 billion ahead of anticipated major releases. OpenAI launched new reasoning models o1 and o1-mini, with increased rate limits and a multilingual MMLU benchmark. Alibaba released the open-source Qwen2.5 model supporting 29+ languages, showing competitive performance to gpt-4 at lower cost. Microsoft and Blackrock plan to invest $30 billion in AI data centers, with Groq partnering with Aramco to build the world's largest AI inference center. Robotics advances include Disney Research and ETH Zurich's diffusion-based motion generation for robots and Pudu Robotics' semi-humanoid robot. Slack and Microsoft introduced AI-powered agents integrated into their platforms. Research highlights include long-context scaling for llama-2-70b using Dual Chunk Attention and KV cache quantization enabling 1 million token context on llama-7b models.
not much happened this weekend
jamba-1.5 dream-machine-1.5 ideogram-v2 mistral-nemo-minitron-8b mistral-7b llama-3-8b nous-research cursor-ai gdm george-hotz agibot unitree eth-zurich disney uc-san-diego ai21-labs luma-labs ideogram nvidia mistral-ai meta-ai-fair distributed-ai optimizer inter-gpu-communication low-latency-training open-source humanoid-robots robotics physics-based-motion teleoperation multilingual-models long-context text-to-video text-to-image model-performance george-hotz adcock_brett aman
Nous Research announced DisTrO, a new optimizer that drastically reduces inter-GPU communication by 1000x to 10,000x enabling efficient training on slow networks, offering an alternative to GDM's DiLoCo. Cursor AI gained viral attention from an 8-year-old user and announced a new fundraise, with co-host Aman returning to their podcast. George Hotz launched tinybox for sale. In robotics, AGIBOT revealed 5 new humanoid robots with open-source plans, and Unitree showcased its G1 humanoid robot nearing mass production at $16,000. ETH Zurich and Disney developed an AI system for physics-based robot motion generation from text or images. UC San Diego released ACE, an open-source teleoperation system for controlling multiple robots. AI21 Labs unveiled Jamba 1.5, a multilingual model with 256k context length and permissive licensing. Luma Labs released Dream Machine 1.5 for improved text-to-video generation. Ideogram launched v2 of its text-to-image model with near-perfect text generation. Nvidia and Mistral released Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, a small model outperforming Mistral-7B and llama-3-8b on the Open LLM leaderboard.