The Daily Index — Wednesday, November 22, 2023 · TLDR Index

HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

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MICROSOFT AND NVIDIA ARE MAKING IT EASIER TO RUN AI MODELS ON WINDOWS

Microsoft has announced Windows AI Studio, a hub for developers to access and configure AI models, with tools from Azure AI Studio and Hugging Face and features like model configuration UI and performance testing templates. Nvidia updated its TensorRT-LLM for PCs with GeForce RTX 30 and 40 Series GPUs, enabling local running of large language models and enhancing privacy.

theverge.com · 1 min

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GEMINI DELAYS LAUNCH OF GEMINI

Google has postponed the launch of its large language model (LLM) and GPT-4 competitor Gemini until Q1 of 2024 due to concerns about its ability to match or surpass OpenAI's GPT-4 and a focus on strengthening its consumer offerings before allowing external developer access.

uctoday.com · 2 min

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STABLE VIDEO

Trained to generate 14 frames of video, Stable Video from Stability AI is a glimpse into the future of content creation.

huggingface.co · 4 min

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DEEP DIVE: EXPLAINING SDXL LATENT SPACE

One of the innovations of the original Stable Diffusion model was the use of a smaller latent space for diffusion. This means the diffusion doesn’t happen on pixels but on some compressed image representation. This post dives into some ways to interpret that space for SDXL.

huggingface.co · 22 min

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EXACT LOOKAHEAD DECODING REDUCES INFERENCE LATENCY 2.3X

There are many ways to speed up autoregressive language model inference. One way that people are excited about is using a draft model. This requires two models but it can be slower. However, by generating related ngrams from the same model, you can alleviate the need for a draft model and speed up generation linearly.

lmsys.org · 14 min

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DEPLOY ANY GGUF MODEL IN 3 MINUTES

You can very quickly deploy an endpoint that serves HuggingFace-hosted models using llama.cpp and GGUF server.

github.com · 3 min

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THE DEVELOPER'S GUIDE TO PRODUCTION-GRADE LLM APPS

Developing LLM applications is one thing, deploying them successfully in production is another. This post cuts through the complexity, offering a developer's guide to maximizing accuracy as you transition your LLM applications from the dev environment to the rigors of production.

buildingaistuff.com · 4 min

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OPENAI RELEASES A CHATGPT FEATURE WITH A JOKE ABOUT ITS OWN CEO DRAMA

ChatGPT with voice is now available for all free users. OpenAI released it with a joke about its CEO drama.

theverge.com · 2 min

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THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE OPENAI FIASCO ON STARTUPS

OpenAI’s dominant place in the developer ecosystem is suddenly at risk, presenting an opportunity for smaller companies to fill a new void. Microsoft will likely walk away as the AI winner, but perhaps other model-layer companies like Anthropic will take advantage of the disturbance.

tomtunguz.com · 2 min

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AI OUTPERFORMS CONVENTIONAL WEATHER FORECASTING FOR THE FIRST TIME

A study published in the journal Science revealed that Google DeepMind's AI meteorology model, GraphCast, significantly outperforms traditional weather forecasting methods, accurately predicting global weather conditions up to 10 days ahead.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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EMMETT SHEAR THREATENING TO LEAVE OPENAI IF BOARD CAN’T PROVE SAM ALTMAN’S WRONGDOING

Interim OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear is reportedly threatening to leave his position at OpenAI if the board can't show evidence of Sam Altman’s wrongdoing.

dexerto.com · 1 min

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AMAZON REPORTEDLY TRAINING AI WITH TWICE AS MANY PARAMETERS AS GPT-4

Amazon is gearing up to enter the AI race with Olympus, a large language model boasting 2 trillion parameters, aiming to surpass OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Bard in capability.

futurism.com · 1 min

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REVERB (PRODUCT)

Reverb delivers AI-powered but hallucination-free answers to online forms like RFPs and questionnaires with training from past completed forms.

reverbforms.com