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Summer of Code AI: $1.6b raised, 1 usable product
ltm-2 llama-3-1-405b gemini-advanced cognition poolside codeium magic google-deepmind nvidia google-cloud long-context model-efficiency custom-hardware cuda training-stack gpu-scaling neural-world-models diffusion-models quantization nat-friedman ben-chess rohan-paul
Code + AI is emphasized as a key modality in AI engineering, highlighting productivity and verifiability benefits. Recent major funding rounds include Cognition AI raising $175M, Poolside raising $400M, Codeium AI raising $150M, and Magic raising $320M. Magic announced their LTM-2 model with a 100 million token context window, boasting efficiency improvements over Llama 3.1 405B by about 1000x cheaper in sequence-dimension algorithm and drastically lower memory requirements. Magic's stack is built from scratch with custom CUDA and no open-source foundations, partnered with Google Cloud and powered by NVIDIA H100 and GB200 GPUs, aiming to scale to tens of thousands of GPUs. Google DeepMind revealed updates to Gemini Advanced with customizable expert "Gems." Neural Game Engines like GameNGen can run DOOM in a diffusion model trained on 0.9B frames. The content also references LLM quantization research by Rohan Paul.
Cerebras Inference: Faster, Better, AND Cheaper
llama-3.1-8b llama-3.1-70b gemini-1.5-flash gemini-1.5-pro cogvideox-5b mamba-2 rene-1.3b llama-3.1 gemini-1.5 claude groq cerebras cursor google-deepmind anthropic inference-speed wafer-scale-chips prompt-caching model-merging benchmarking open-source-models code-editing model-optimization jeremyphoward sam-altman nat-friedman daniel-gross swyx
Groq led early 2024 with superfast LLM inference speeds, achieving ~450 tokens/sec for Mixtral 8x7B and 240 tokens/sec for Llama 2 70B. Cursor introduced a specialized code edit model hitting 1000 tokens/sec. Now, Cerebras claims the fastest inference with their wafer-scale chips, running Llama3.1-8b at 1800 tokens/sec and Llama3.1-70B at 450 tokens/sec at full precision, with competitive pricing and a generous free tier. Google's Gemini 1.5 models showed significant benchmark improvements, especially Gemini-1.5-Flash and Gemini-1.5-Pro. New open-source models like CogVideoX-5B and Mamba-2 (Rene 1.3B) were released, optimized for consumer hardware. Anthropic's Claude now supports prompt caching, improving speed and cost efficiency. "Cerebras Inference runs Llama3.1 20x faster than GPU solutions at 1/5 the price."