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Not much technical happened today
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OpenAI announced raising $6.6B in new funding at a $157B valuation, with ChatGPT reaching 250M weekly active users. Poolside raised $500M to advance AGI development. LiquidAI introduced three new MoE models (1B, 3B, 40B) with a 32k context window and efficient token handling. OpenAI released Whisper V3 Turbo, an open-source multilingual model with significant speed improvements. Meta AI FAIR is hiring research interns focusing on LLM reasoning, alignment, synthetic data, and novel architectures. Cohere partnered with Fujitsu to launch Takane, a custom Japanese model. Technical discussions included challenges in LoRA fine-tuning, float8 quantization in Keras, and new tools like create-llama for agent templates. Industry commentary raised concerns about AI development priorities and highlighted freelancing opportunities in AI.