The Daily Index — Tuesday, November 21, 2023 · TLDR Index

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AMAZON’S OFFERING FREE COURSES ON GENERATIVE AI

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theverge.com · 1 min

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VIDEO LLAVA

LLaVa is a recipe for training a multi-modal model from a text model. It can now work with video. The resulting model (based on Vicuna) is extremely powerful and easily achieves state-of-the-art performance in video summarization and captioning.

github.com · 22 min

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TEACHING SMALL LANGUAGE MODELS TO REASON

The Orca models are a set of small models from Microsoft that excel at reasoning tasks. There has been concern about validity because much of the information was kept closed. Orca 2 has now been released and the model is available on HuggingFace. It demonstrates good performance for its size, outperforming several larger models on reasoning benchmarks.

microsoft.com · 12 min

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POPULAR PUBLIC MODELS LIKELY DIDN'T TRAIN ON THE TEST SET

An in-depth way to study what data was used to train language models. The results of which suggest that many closed-source models likely didn't train on popular benchmarks.

arxiv.org · 18 min

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BAIN CAPITAL VENTURES LAUNCHES BCV LAB

Bain Capital Ventures has created a new AI incubator and technical community called BCV Labs, offering office space, events, a fellowship program, GPU credits, and recruiting support, along with funding.

news.crunchbase.com · 1 min

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AGI’S IMPACT ON TECH, SAAS VALUATIONS

The rapid advancement of AI, particularly AGI, could significantly impact the valuation of SaaS and tech companies by increasing competition, compressing margins, and reducing the demand for traditional project management and CRUD apps, while also challenging incumbents with new AI-native startups and self-serve app creation, ultimately leading to a shift in the software value chain.

nextword.substack.com · 5 min

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SALESFORCE LOOKS TO POACH OUTBOUND OPENAI STAFF

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has revealed the firm will provide full compensation for OpenAI staff who join Salesforce’s Einstein Trusted AI research team.

itpro.com · 2 min

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MICROSOFT REBRANDS ITS AI-POWERED BING CHAT AS COPILOT

Microsoft is rebranding Bing Chat to "Copilot," unifying the name of its generative AI assistant across its products, including Bing Chat Enterprise, now also known as Copilot.

engadget.com · 2 min