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not much happened today
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DeepSeek R1 demonstrates significant efficiency using FP8 precision, outperforming Gemma 3 27B in benchmarks with a Chatbot Arena Elo Score of 1363 vs. 1338, requiring substantial hardware like 32 H100 GPUs and 2,560GB VRAM. OpenAI labels DeepSeek as "state-controlled" and calls for bans on "PRC-produced" models, sparking community backlash accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of anti-competitive behavior. Discussions emphasize DeepSeek's openness and affordability compared to OpenAI, with users highlighting its local and Hugging Face deployment options. Meanwhile, Gemma 3 receives mixed community feedback on creativity and worldbuilding.
o3-mini launches, OpenAI on "wrong side of history"
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OpenAI released o3-mini, a new reasoning model available for free and paid users with a "high" reasoning effort option that outperforms the earlier o1 model on STEM tasks and safety benchmarks, costing 93% less per token. Sam Altman acknowledged a shift in open source strategy and credited DeepSeek R1 for influencing assumptions. MistralAI launched Mistral Small 3 (24B), an open-weight model with competitive performance and low API costs. DeepSeek R1 is supported by Text-generation-inference v3.1.0 and available via ai-gradio and replicate. The news highlights advancements in reasoning, cost-efficiency, and safety in AI models.
OpenAI launches Operator, its first Agent
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OpenAI launched Operator, a premium computer-using agent for web tasks like booking and ordering, available now for Pro users in the US with an API promised. It features long horizon remote VMs up to 20 minutes and video export, showing state-of-the-art agent performance but not yet human-level. Anthropic had launched a similar agent 3 months earlier as an open source demo. DeepSeek AI unveiled DeepSeek R1, an open-source reasoning model excelling on the Humanity's Last Exam dataset, outperforming models like LLaMA 4 and OpenAI's o1. Google DeepMind open-sourced VideoLLaMA 3, a multimodal foundation model for image and video understanding. Perplexity AI released Perplexity Assistant for Android with reasoning and search capabilities. The Humanity's Last Exam dataset contains 3,000 questions testing AI reasoning, with current models scoring below 10% accuracy, indicating room for improvement. OpenAI's Computer-Using Agent (CUA) shows improved performance on OSWorld and WebArena benchmarks but still lags behind humans. Anthropic AI introduced Citations for safer AI responses. Sam Altman and Swyx commented on Operator's launch and capabilities.
not much happened today
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Sam Altman publicly criticizes DeepSeek and Qwen models, sparking debate about OpenAI's innovation claims and reliance on foundational research like the Transformer architecture. Deepseek V3 shows significant overfitting issues in the Misguided Attention evaluation, solving only 22% of test prompts, raising concerns about its reasoning and finetuning. Despite skepticism about its open-source status, Deepseek V3 is claimed to surpass ChatGPT4 as an open-source model, marking a milestone 1.75 years after ChatGPT4's release on March 14, 2023. The discussions highlight competitive dynamics in AI model performance and innovation sustainability.
not much happened today
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ChatGPT Search was launched by Sam Altman, who called it his favorite feature since ChatGPT's original launch, doubling his usage. Comparisons were made between ChatGPT Search and Perplexity with improvements noted in Perplexity's web navigation. Google introduced a "Grounding" feature in the Gemini API & AI Studio enabling Gemini models to access real-time web information. Despite Gemini's leaderboard performance, developer adoption lags behind OpenAI and Anthropic. SmolLM2, a new small, powerful on-device language model, outperforms Meta's Llama 3.2 1B. A Claude desktop app was released for Mac and Windows. Meta AI announced robotics advancements including Meta Sparsh, Meta Digit 360, and Meta Digit Plexus. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium, a 2B parameter model with a permissive license, was released. Insights on AGI development suggest initial inferiority but rapid improvement. Anthropic advocates for early targeted AI regulation. Discussions on ML specialization predict training will concentrate among few companies, while inference becomes commoditized. New AI tools include Suno AI Personas for music creation, PromptQL for natural language querying over data, and Agent S for desktop task automation. Humor was shared about Python environment upgrades.
The AI Search Wars Have Begun — SearchGPT, Gemini Grounding, and more
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ChatGPT launched its search functionality across all platforms using a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o with synthetic data generation and distillation from o1-preview. This feature includes a Chrome extension promoted by Sam Altman but has issues with hallucinations. The launch coincides with Gemini introducing Search Grounding after delays. Notably, The New York Times is not a partner due to a lawsuit against OpenAI. The AI search competition intensifies with consumer and B2B players like Perplexity and Glean. Additionally, Claude 3.5 Sonnet achieved a new benchmark record on SWE-bench Verified, and a new hallucination evaluation benchmark, SimpleQA, was introduced. Other highlights include the Universal-2 speech-to-text model with 660M parameters and HOVER, a neural whole-body controller for humanoid robots trained in NVIDIA Isaac simulation. AI hedge fund teams using LangChain and LangGraph were also showcased. The news is sponsored by the RAG++ course featuring experts from Weights & Biases, Cohere, and Weaviate.
not much happened today
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Liquid AI held a launch event introducing new foundation models. Anthropic shared follow-up research on social bias and feature steering with their "Golden Gate Claude" feature. Cohere released multimodal Embed 3 embeddings models following Aya Expanse. There was misinformation about GPT-5/Orion debunked by Sam Altman. Meta AI FAIR announced Open Materials 2024 with new models and datasets for inorganic materials discovery using the EquiformerV2 architecture. Anthropic AI demonstrated feature steering to balance social bias and model capabilities. NVIDIA's Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B ranked highly on the Arena leaderboard with style control. Perplexity AI expanded to 100M weekly queries with new finance and reasoning modes. LangChain emphasized real application integration with interactive frame interpolation. Kestra highlighted scalable event-driven workflows with open-source YAML-based orchestration. OpenFLUX optimized inference speed by doubling it through guidance LoRA training. Discussions on AI safety included trust dynamics between humans and AI, economic impacts of AI automation, and the White House AI National Security memo addressing cyber and biological risks. LlamaIndex showcased knowledge-backed agents for enhanced AI applications.
Not much (in AI) happened this weekend
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OpenAI introduced an "edit this area" feature for image generation, praised by Sam Altman. Yann LeCun highlighted a NYU paper improving pixel generation with feature prediction loss using pre-trained visual encoders like DINOv2. Long-context LLMs such as llama-3.1-8b and llama-3.2 variants now support up to 131k tokens, offering alternatives to RAG systems. Bindu Reddy announced AI agents capable of building and deploying code from English instructions, signaling AI's replacement of SQL and potential impact on Python. SpaceX's successful Starship rocket catch was celebrated by Andrej Karpathy and others, with Soumith Chintala praising SpaceX's efficient, low-bureaucracy research approach. Privacy concerns arose from Harvard students' AI glasses, I-XRAY, which can reveal personal information. Meta AI FAIR's Movie Gen model advances media foundation models with high-quality text-to-image and video generation, including synced audio. Humanoid robots like Ameca and Azi now engage in expressive conversations using ChatGPT. xAI rapidly deployed 100K Nvidia H100 GPUs in 19 days, with CEO Jensen Huang commending Elon Musk. Leading AI research labs compared include Meta-FAIR, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft Research. Skepticism about LLM intelligence was voiced by Sam Pino, emphasizing limitations in novel problem-solving despite strong memorization.
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode with 5 new voices and improved accent and language support, available widely in the US. Ahead of rumored updates for Llama 3 and Claude 3.5, Gemini Pro saw a significant price cut aligning with the new intelligence frontier pricing. OpenAI's o1-preview model showed promising planning task performance with 52.8% accuracy on Randomized Mystery Blocksworld. Anthropic is rumored to release a new model, generating community excitement. Qwen 2.5 was released with models up to 32B parameters and support for 128K tokens, matching GPT-4 0613 benchmarks. Research highlights include PlanBench evaluation of o1-preview, OpenAI's release of a multilingual MMMLU dataset covering 14 languages, and RAGLAB framework standardizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation research. New AI tools include PDF2Audio for converting PDFs to audio, an open-source AI starter kit for local model deployment, and Moshi, a speech-based AI assistant from Kyutai. Industry updates feature Scale AI nearing $1B ARR with 4x YoY growth and Together Compute's enterprise platform offering faster inference and cost reductions. Insights from Sam Altman's blog post were also shared.
not much happened today
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Meta announced significant adoption of LLaMA 3.1 with nearly 350 million downloads on Hugging Face. Magic AI Labs introduced LTM-2-Mini, a long context model with a 100 million token context window, and a new evaluation method called HashHop. LMSys added style control to their Chatbot Arena leaderboard, improving rankings for models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and LLaMA 3.1 405B. Alibaba released Qwen2-VL, a multimodal LLM under Apache 2.0 license, competitive with GPT-4o mini. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced collaboration with the US AI Safety Institute for pre-release model testing. Discussions on AI safety and potential AI takeover risks were highlighted by Ajeya Cotra. Tools like firecrawl for web crawling and challenges in PDF processing were noted. AI hype cycles and market trends were discussed by François Chollet, and potential AI disruption in call centers was shared by Rohan Paul.
Cerebras Inference: Faster, Better, AND Cheaper
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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."
DataComp-LM: the best open-data 7B model/benchmark/dataset
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DataComp team released a competitive 7B open data language model trained on only 2.5T tokens from the massive DCLM-POOL dataset of 240 trillion tokens, showing superior scaling trends compared to FineWeb. OpenAI launched GPT-4o mini, a cost-effective model with 82% MMLU and performance near GPT-4-Turbo, aimed at developers for broad applications. NVIDIA and Mistral jointly released the Mistral NeMo 12B model featuring a 128k token context window, FP8 checkpoint, multilingual support, and Apache 2.0 licensing. DeepSeek announced DeepSeek-V2-0628 as the top open-source model on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard with strong rankings in coding, math, and hard prompts. This news highlights advances in dataset design, model efficiency, and open-source contributions in the AI community.
Mini, Nemo, Turbo, Lite - Smol models go brrr (GPT4o version)
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GPT-4o-mini launches with a 99% price reduction compared to text-davinci-003, offering 3.5% the price of GPT-4o and matching Opus-level benchmarks. It supports 16k output tokens, is faster than previous models, and will soon support text, image, video, and audio inputs and outputs. Mistral Nemo, a 12B parameter model developed with Nvidia, features a 128k token context window, FP8 checkpoint, and strong benchmark performance. Together Lite and Turbo offer fp8/int4 quantizations of Llama 3 with up to 4x throughput and significantly reduced costs. DeepSeek V2 is now open-sourced. Upcoming releases include at least 5 unreleased models and Llama 4 leaks ahead of ICML 2024.
LMSys advances Llama 3 eval analysis
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LMSys is enhancing LLM evaluation by categorizing performance across 8 query subcategories and 7 prompt complexity levels, revealing uneven strengths in models like Llama-3-70b. DeepMind released AlphaFold 3, advancing molecular structure prediction with holistic modeling of protein-DNA-RNA complexes, impacting biology and genetics research. OpenAI introduced the Model Spec, a public standard to clarify model behavior and tuning, inviting community feedback and aiming for models to learn directly from it. Llama 3 has reached top leaderboard positions on LMSys, nearly matching Claude-3-sonnet in performance, with notable variations on complex prompts. The analysis highlights the evolving landscape of model benchmarking and behavior shaping.
Evals: The Next Generation
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Scale AI highlighted issues with data contamination in benchmarks like MMLU and GSM8K, proposing a new benchmark where Mistral overfits and Phi-3 performs well. Reka released the VibeEval benchmark for multimodal models addressing multiple choice benchmark limitations. Sam Altman of OpenAI discussed GPT-4 as "dumb" and hinted at GPT-5 with AI agents as a major breakthrough. Researchers jailbroke GPT-3.5 via fine-tuning. Global calls emerged to ban AI-powered weapons, with US officials urging human control over nuclear arms. Ukraine launched an AI consular avatar, while Moderna partnered with OpenAI for medical AI advancements. Sanctuary AI and Microsoft collaborate on AI for general-purpose robots. MIT introduced Kolmogorov-Arnold networks with improved neural network efficiency. Meta AI is training Llama 3 models with over 400 billion parameters, featuring multimodality and longer context.
Lilian Weng on Video Diffusion
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OpenAI expands with a launch in Japan, introduces a Batch API, and partners with Adobe to bring the Sora video model to Premiere Pro. Reka AI releases the Reka Core multimodal language model. WizardLM-2 is released showing impressive performance, and Llama 3 news is anticipated soon. Geoffrey Hinton highlights AI models exhibiting intuition, creativity, and analogy recognition beyond humans. The Devin AI model notably contributes to its own codebase. Opus demonstrates the ability to recognize its own generated outputs. Sam Altman warns startups about being steamrolled by OpenAI if they don't adapt quickly. Yann LeCun discusses AGI timelines, emphasizing it is inevitable but not imminent or solely from LLMs. Lilian Weng's blog on diffusion models for video generation highlights training-free adaptation as a breakthrough technique.
Zero to GPT in 1 Year
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GPT-4 Turbo reclaimed the top leaderboard spot with significant improvements in coding, multilingual, and English-only tasks, now rolled out in paid ChatGPT. Despite this, Claude Opus remains superior in creativity and intelligence. Mistral AI released powerful open-source models like Mixtral-8x22B and Zephyr 141B suited for fine-tuning. LangChain enhanced tool integration across models, and Hugging Face introduced Transformer.js for running transformers in browsers. Medical domain-focused Medical mT5 was shared as an open-source multilingual text-to-text model. The community also highlighted research on LLMs as regressors and shared practical advice on OCR/PDF data modeling from Vik Paruchuri's journey.
World_sim.exe
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NVIDIA announced Project GR00T, a foundation model for humanoid robot learning using multimodal instructions, built on their tech stack including Isaac Lab, OSMO, and Jetson Thor. They revealed the DGX Grace-Blackwell GB200 with over 1 exaflop compute, capable of training GPT-4 1.8T parameters in 90 days on 2000 Blackwells. Jensen Huang confirmed GPT-4 has 1.8 trillion parameters. The new GB200 GPU supports float4/6 precision with ~3 bits per parameter and achieves 40,000 TFLOPs on fp4 with 2x sparsity.
Open source highlights include the release of Grok-1, a 340B parameter model, and Stability AI's SV3D, an open-source text-to-video generation solution. Nous Research collaborated on implementing Steering Vectors in Llama.CPP.
In Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), a new 5.5-hour tutorial builds a pipeline using open-source HF models, and LangChain released a video on query routing and announced integration with NVIDIA NIM for GPU-optimized LLM inference.
Prominent opinions include Yann LeCun distinguishing language from other cognitive abilities, Sam Altman predicting AGI arrival in 6 years with a leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 comparable to GPT-3 to GPT-4, and discussions on the philosophical status of LLMs like Claude. There is also advice against training models from scratch for most companies.
Grok-1 in Bio
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Grok-1, a 314B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from xAI, has been released under an Apache 2.0 license, sparking discussions on its architecture, finetuning challenges, and performance compared to models like Mixtral and Miqu 70B. Despite its size, its MMLU benchmark performance is currently unimpressive, with expectations that Grok-2 will be more competitive. The model's weights and code are publicly available, encouraging community experimentation. Sam Altman highlighted the growing importance of compute resources, while Grok's potential deployment on Groq hardware was noted as a possible game-changer. Meanwhile, Anthropic's Claude continues to attract attention for its "spiritual" interaction experience and consistent ethical framework. The release also inspired memes and humor within the AI community.
Sama says: GPT-5 soon
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Sam Altman at Davos highlighted that his top priority is launching the new model, likely called GPT-5, while expressing uncertainty about Ilya Sutskever's employment status. Itamar from Codium introduced the concept of Flow Engineering with AlphaCodium, gaining attention from Andrej Karpathy. On the TheBloke Discord, engineers discussed a multi-specialty mixture-of-experts (MOE) model combining seven distinct 7 billion parameter models specialized in law, finance, and medicine. Debates on 8-bit fine-tuning and the use of bitsandbytes with GPU support were prominent. Discussions also covered model merging using tools like Mergekit and compatibility with Alpaca format. Interest in optimizing AI models on AMD hardware using AOCL blas and lapack libraries with llama.cpp was noted. Users experimented with AI for command line tasks, and the Mixtral MoE model was refined to surpass larger models in coding ability. Comparisons among LLMs such as GPT-3.5, Mixtral, Gemini Pro, and GPT-4 focused on knowledge depth, problem-solving, and speed, especially for coding tasks.
12/18/2023: Gaslighting Mistral for fun and profit
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OpenAI Discord discussions reveal comparisons among language models including GPT-4 Turbo, GPT-3.5 Turbo, Claude 2.1, Claude Instant 1, and Gemini Pro, with GPT-4 Turbo noted for user-centric explanations. Rumors about GPT-4.5 remain unconfirmed, with skepticism prevailing until official announcements. Users discuss technical challenges like slow responses and API issues, and explore role-play prompt techniques to enhance model performance. Ethical concerns about AI's impact on academia and employment are debated. Future features for Dalle 3 and a proposed new GPT model are speculated upon, while a school project seeks help using the OpenAI API. The community also touches on AI glasses and job market implications of AI adoption.