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Huawei chips are highlighted in a diverse AI news roundup covering NVIDIA's stock rebound, new open music foundation models like Local Suno, and competitive AI models such as Qwen 2.5 Max and Deepseek V3. The release of DeepSeek Janus Pro, a multimodal LLM with image generation capabilities, and advancements in reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought reasoning are noted. Discussions include GPU rebranding with NVIDIA's H6400 GPUs, data center innovations, and enterprise AI applications like crypto APIs in hedge funds. "Deepseek R1's capabilities" and "Qwen 2.5 models added to applications" are key highlights.
Bespoke-Stratos + Sky-T1: The Vicuna+Alpaca moment for reasoning
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Reasoning Distillation has emerged as a key technique, with Berkeley/USC researchers releasing Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a finetuned model of Qwen 2.5 32B using 17k reasoning traces for just $450, matching benchmarks of o1-preview. DeepSeek introduced R1, a model surpassing o1-preview and enabling distillation to smaller models like a 1.5B Qwen to match gpt-4o and claude-3-sonnet levels. Bespoke Labs further distilled R1 on Qwen, outperforming o1-preview with fewer samples. This progress suggests that "SFT is all you need" for reasoning without major architecture changes. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning with supervised finetuning to accelerate convergence and shows strong reasoning and multimodal capabilities. Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model boasts a 1 million token context window, code execution, and excels in math, science, and multimodal reasoning. Critiques highlight challenges in model repeatability, behavioral self-awareness, and RLHF limitations in reasoning robustness.
Common Corpus: 2T Open Tokens with Provenance
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Pleais via Huggingface released Common Corpus, the largest fully open multilingual dataset with over 2 trillion tokens including detailed provenance information. They also introduced OCRonos-Vintage, a 124M-parameter OCR correction model that efficiently fixes digitization errors on CPU and GPU, unlocking knowledge from PDFs. On AI tools, LangChainAI launched Prompt Canvas for collaborative prompt engineering, while DeepSeek released JanusFlow 1.3B, a unified multimodal LLM integrating autoregressive and rectified flow models for enhanced image understanding and generation. Alibaba Cloud announced Qwen2.5-Coder, a code-focused LLM with advanced coding capabilities, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet was highlighted for superior code generation. Discussions on quantization challenges and scaling laws for precision by Tim Dettmers and others emphasized the impact of low-precision training on model scalability and inference efficiency. "Scaling Laws for Precision" paper insights and alternative efficiency methods were also noted.