The Daily Index — Thursday, September 28, 2023 · TLDR Index

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Today’s Index

TLDR

NETWORK

Workers AI is an AI Inference-as-a-Service platform powered by a global network of GPUs that enables developers to run AI models with just a few lines of code.

blog.cloudflare.com · 11 min

TLDR AI

MISTRAL RELEASES FIRST MODEL

After a huge seed round and building a team, ML stack, and data pipeline, the Mistral team has released an extremely performant 7B model. It was initially released via a magnet link (torrent) along with a minimal GitHub Repo and permissive license.

mistral.ai · 4 min

TLDR Web Dev

STORAGE CHALLENGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF DATABASE ARCHITECTURE

A team of Postman engineers tackled a storage issue with the Sync service, which had been running since 2014 and was facing physical storage limitations on an AWS RDS Aurora cluster. The team initially attempted to prune older records to free up space but found that it didn't work as expected due to certain constraints. They then devised an approach to free up tables without compromising system reliability, resulting in 60TB of space freed.

blog.postman.com · 12 min

TLDR Crypto

CRYPTO

SEC Chair Gary Gensler faced criticism from lawmakers regarding his crypto regulation approach during a House hearing. He was questioned about the classification of bitcoin, how that compared to other assets like Pokemon cards, and the approval of bitcoin ETFs. Lawmakers also expressed concerns over Gensler's transparency with Congress, especially regarding interactions with crypto exchange FTX.

theblock.co · 4 min

TLDR Design

CONCEPTS THAT TRANSFORM HUMANITY

The Red Dot Award for Design Concepts celebrates the power of conceptualization, showcasing designs that embody creativity, collaboration, and impeccable execution. This year's edition features a clock that displays the time using Styrofoam grains resembling snow, an intelligent rotary stove, a design toolkit for saving the Earth designed for kids, and many other exciting projects.

yankodesign.com · 5 min

TLDR AI

META IS PUTTING AI CHATBOTS EVERYWHERE

Meta is launching its own AI chatbot assistant along with various AI characters across its platforms. The chatbot is designed as a general-purpose assistant, uses Microsoft's Bing for real-time web results, and can generate images similar to OpenAI's DALL-E.

theverge.com · 2 min

TLDR AI

LLAVA-RLHF FOR VISUALLY ALIGNED MODELS

Llava is a method that inserts vision capabilities into language models. It has now been instruction-tuned and run through an RLHF process. Llava improves instruction following and reasoning abilities.

llava-rlhf.github.io · 8 min

TLDR AI

RANKVICUNA: RANK RESULTS WITH LANGUAGE MODELS

Large models like ChatGPT have been used to improve search results, but many of these tests are hard to repeat because they're hidden or secret. Researchers have introduced RankVicuna, an open-source tool that can reorder search results using language models.

arxiv.org · 16 min

TLDR AI

MAKING LLMS FASTER AND SMALLER WITH QA-LORA

Large language models are powerful, but often too big for some devices due to their computational demands. This new method, QA-LoRA, makes models more efficient by cleverly changing how they're built and fine-tuned.

arxiv.org · 18 min