The Daily Index — Tuesday, February 20, 2024 · TLDR Index

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OPENAI VALUED AT $80 BILLION IN DEAL WITH THRIVE CAPITAL

OpenAI has reportedly reached a valuation of over $80 billion following a deal with VC firm Thrive Capital. This valuation marks a nearly 3x increase in less than 10 months, making OpenAI the 3rd highest-valued tech startup in the world. The deal involves a share sale under a "tender offer," allowing employees to cash out their shares in the company.

forbes.com · 2 min

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MAGIC RAISES $117M TO CONTINUE CODE GENERATION MODELS

Magic is building an AI software engineer and has raised more to help with this process.

twitter.com · 3 min

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KV QUANT - SCALING TO 10M TOKENS

Quantizing the KV cache, which is a technical detail of the Transformer architecture, allows it to use less memory at inference time. Quantization is the shrinking of the floating point precision with minimal loss in quality.

arxiv.org · 22 min

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ENHANCED SPEECH TRANSLATION

ZeroSwot is a new method for Speech Translation (ST) that overcomes the lack of data and differences between speech and text. It uses unique techniques to train a speech encoder with only speech recognition data, allowing it to work with a multilingual translation model.

arxiv.org · 18 min

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MAKING CLIP’S VISUALLY UNDERSTANDABLE

SpLiCE is a new method that makes CLIP's complex visual data easier to understand.

arxiv.org · 16 min

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HOW TO JOINTLY TUNE LR AND WD IN ADAMW

AdamW is commonly used to decouple learning rate and weight decay. However, the common implementation in Pytorch doesn’t explicitly do this. This post discusses how to tune these parameters.

fabian-sp.github.io · 12 min

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INSIDE OPENAI (68 MINUTE PODCAST)

Ever wondered how OpenAI is able to innovate and build at such a fast pace? In this podcast, Logan Kilpatrick, OpenAI's head of developer relations, discusses OpenAI's unique culture, the importance of high agency and urgency, and the company's decision-making framework for launching products.

lennyspodcast.com

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ENHANCING DENSE VIDEO ANALYSIS TRANSFORMERS

A new Temporal Dilated Video Transformer (TDViT) has been developed to improve the analysis of dense video tasks, such as frame-by-frame video object detection.

arxiv.org · 28 min

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LIST OF GPU CLUSTERS FOR RENT

A list of full clusters that are available for rent by the hour.

gpulist.ai · 2 min

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