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Google I/O: new Gemini native voice, Flash, DeepThink, AI Mode (DeepSearch+Mariner+Astra)
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Google I/O 2024 showcased significant advancements with Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Think reasoning mode from google-deepmind, emphasizing AI-driven transformations and developer opportunities. GeminiApp aims to become a universal AI assistant on the path to AGI, with new features like AI Mode in Google Search expanding generative AI access. The event included multiple keynotes and updates on over a dozen models and 20+ AI products, highlighting Google's leadership in AI innovation. Influential voices like demishassabis and philschmid provided insights and recaps, while the launch of Jules as a competitor to Codex/Devin was noted.
not much happened this weekend
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Moondream, a 1.6b vision language model, secured seed funding, highlighting a trend in moon-themed tiny models alongside Moonshine (27-61m ASR model). Claude 3.5 Sonnet was used for AI Twitter recaps. Discussions included pattern recognition vs. intelligence in LLMs, reinforcement learning for prompt optimization, and NotebookLlama, an open-source NotebookLM variant using LLaMA models for tasks like text-to-speech. Advances in model optimization with async-TP in PyTorch for tensor parallelism and hyperparameter tuning were noted. Mini-Omni 2 demonstrated multimodal capabilities across image, audio, and text for voice conversations with emphasis on modal alignment and multimodal fine-tuning. AI productivity tools like an AI email writer and LlamaCloud-based research assistants were introduced. Emphasis on practical skill development and privacy-conscious AI tool usage with Llama3-8B was highlighted. Generative AI tools such as #AIPythonforBeginners and GenAI Agents with LangGraph were shared. Business insights covered rapid execution in AI product development and emerging AI-related job roles. Challenges in enterprise-grade text-to-SQL and advanced retrieval methods were discussed with tutorials on RAG applications using LangChain and MongoDB.
A quiet weekend
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Yann LeCun predicts a shift to AR interfaces with AI assistants in 10-15 years, moving away from smartphones. The Dolphin-2.9 model based on Llama-3 was released, improving quality issues. PixArt Sigma, a 0.6B parameter model, achieves Stable Diffusion 3.0 level performance with complete prompt adherence and local usability. Research shows transformers can use meaningless filler tokens for algorithmic tasks with dense supervision. AI-generated restaurant reviews can pass the Turing test, fooling humans and AI detectors. Uber uses graph algorithms and learned embeddings for ETA prediction. Coca-Cola and Microsoft announced a 5-year AI partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives. The Llama-3 70B model can run on a single 4GB GPU using AirLLM optimization without quantization but is slow. Mistral.rs is introduced as a fast LLM inference platform with quantization and OpenAI API compatibility. Only 5% of LLMs make it from prototype to production due to challenges, especially in enterprise. EXL2 and GGUF quantization methods for Llama models show similar perplexity vs model size, with Llama-3 and Llama-2 degrading more under quantization compared to full precision.
Not much happened today
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Anthropic released Claude 3, replacing Claude 2.1 as the default on Perplexity AI, with Claude 3 Opus surpassing GPT-4 in capability. Debate continues on whether Claude 3's performance stems from emergent properties or pattern matching. LangChain and LlamaIndex added support for Claude 3 enabling multimodal and tool-augmented applications. Despite progress, current models still face challenges in out-of-distribution reasoning and robustness. Cohere partnered with Accenture for enterprise AI search, while Mistral AI and Snowflake collaborate to provide LLMs on Snowflake's platform. Together AI Research integrates Deepspeed innovations to accelerate generative AI infrastructure. Hugging Face and the European Space Agency released a large earth observation dataset, and Google open sourced Gemma 2B, optimized for smartphones via the MLC-LLM project. GPT4All improved model discoverability for open models. The AI community balances excitement over new models with concerns about limitations and robustness, alongside growing enterprise adoption and open-source contributions. Memes and humor continue to provide social commentary.