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Company: "motherduck"
not much happened today
claudette llama-3-1 yi-lightning gpt-4o claude-3.5-sonnet answer-ai tencent notebooklm motherduck perplexity dropbox openai meta-ai-fair yi-ai zyphra-ai anthropic langchain openai synthetic-data fine-tuning sql audio-processing on-device-ai dataset-release transformer llm-reasoning ai-safety code-generation ai-pricing ai-job-market fchollet aravsrinivas svpino swyx
Answer.ai launched fastdata, a synthetic data generation library using
claudette and Tencent's Billion Persona paper. NotebookLM became customizable, and Motherduck introduced notable LLMs in SQL implementations. Perplexity and Dropbox announced competitors to Glean. OpenAI unveiled audio chat completions priced at 24 cents per minute. Meta AI released Llama 3.1, powering Lenovo AI Now's on-device agent. Yi-Lightning model ranked #6 globally, surpassing GPT-4o. Zyphra AI released the large Zyda-2 dataset with 5 trillion tokens. François Chollet clarified transformer architecture as set-processing, not sequence-processing. Research suggests memorization aids LLM reasoning. Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy for AI safety. Tools like Perplexity Finance, Open Canvas by LangChain, and AlphaCodium code generation tool were highlighted. Approximately $500 million was raised for AI agent startups, with ongoing discussions on AI's job market impact. Combining prompt caching with the Batches API can yield a 95% discount on Claude 3.5 Sonnet tokens.