The Daily Index — Wednesday, February 21, 2024 · TLDR Index

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SOFTBANK FOUNDER MASAYOSHI SON AIMS TO RAISE $100 BILLION FOR NEW CHIP VENTURE

Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group Corp. is launching Izanagi, a $100 billion chip venture aimed at competing with Nvidia and focusing on AI applications.

msn.com · 1 min

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SCRIBE $25M SERIES B

Scribe has raised a Series B funding round led by Redpoint Ventures to accelerate its AI-driven platform, which automates the creation of visual step-by-step guides and facilitates knowledge sharing within organizations. Over a million teams use Scribe, including 97% of the Fortune 100. The company is expanding its AI features to make workplace information even more accessible.

scribehow.com · 4 min

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GENERATIVE REPRESENTATIONAL INSTRUCTION TUNING

The Contextual team has trained and released a model that both generates text and embeddings. It dramatically outperforms single specialist models. The model is an interesting take on the multi-modal trend where the output modality is an embedding.

arxiv.org · 24 min

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DEEPDIVE: MAMBA THE HARD WAY

Sasha Rush has released an annotated tutorial for accelerating Mamba with custom Triton kernels. It doesn’t scale yet due to a bug in the Triton compiler, but it is an extreme illustration of the technology and great for those looking to dive deeper into the state space Transformer alternative world.

srush.github.io · 30 min

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ENHANCING FINE-TUNING WITH LORA+

This paper presents LoRA+, an advancement over the existing Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) method for fine-tuning large models. LoRA+ achieves better performance and faster fine-tuning, without increasing computational demands, by using different learning rates for key components in the process.

arxiv.org · 25 min

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NEW LLM BENCHMARK

Preeminent researcher Nicholas Carlini has released the benchmark he uses for evaluating large language model performance. Interestingly, it has GPT-4 further ahead than most other benchmarks.

nicholas.carlini.com · 12 min

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STRATEGIES FOR AN ACCELERATING FUTURE

The recent advancements in AI, particularly with Google's Gemini offering a context window of over a million tokens and Groq's hardware enabling almost instantaneous responses from GPT-3.5 models, signify a major leap forward in practical AI applications and underscore the urgency for leaders to understand and adapt to AI's rapidly evolving landscape.

oneusefulthing.org · 5 min

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HOW TO LOSE AT GENERATIVE AI

Generative AI, while hyped, is likely to disappoint most startups because it favors incumbents with data advantages, existing workflows, and the ability to integrate AI into these systems without major overhauls. Despite venture capital flowing into the GenAI space, startups focusing on prompt engineering and UX improvements at the workflow layer are essentially prepping the market for incumbents who can easily adopt and integrate AI innovations into their dominant platforms, suggesting a challenging path ahead for startups aiming to capture significant value in the Generative AI domain.

medium.com · 7 min

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AMAZON AGI TEAM SAY THEIR AI IS SHOWING “EMERGENT ABILITIES”

Amazon AGI researchers developed a language model named "Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent Abilities" (BASE TTS) that shows "state-of-the-art naturalness" in conversational text, demonstrating language skills it wasn't specifically trained on.

futurism.com · 2 min

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ADGEN AI (PRODUCT LAUNCH)

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