The Daily Index — Thursday, April 18, 2024 · TLDR Index

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STABILITY AI MAKES THE STABLE DIFFUSION API AVAILABLE

Stability AI has made its latest text-to-image AI model, Stable Diffusion 3, available to some developers via API and its new content creation platform called Stable Assistant Beta. The model is still in preview and not yet available to the general public.

theverge.com · 1 min

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EUROPEAN CAR MANUFACTURER WILL PILOT SANCTUARY AI'S HUMANOID ROBOT

Sanctuary AI will deliver its humanoid robot, Phoenix, to a Magna auto manufacturing facility, following Magna's 2021 investment in the company. Phoenix is notable for its walking capability and dexterous hands aimed at enhancing manufacturing efficiency. The specifics of the pilot, including the number of robots and deployment details, remain undisclosed.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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MISTRAL 8X22B REPORT AND INSTRUCTION MODEL

The new base Mistral report was released today. Additionally, their own instruction tuned model was released under a similar permissive license. They report a strong MMLU and HumanEval performance along with incredible multilingual English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish performance, function calling, and 64k native context length.

bit.ly · 4 min

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HOW TO IMPROVE 24 POINTS IN MMLU WITH OLMO

The latest completely open 7B language model had an upgrade with a much-improved reasoning score on MMLU. Its development team found that changing the data mixture had a substantial effect on performance. They have provided the exact statistics of new data sources and percentages that led to this improvement.

blog.allenai.org · 12 min

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STABLE AUDIO PAPER

This paper describes Stability AI's diffusion transformer model for audio synthesis.

arxiv.org · 22 min

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THE CHALLENGES OF GETTING ML MODELS TO PRODUCTION

A deep dive interview from industry experts on the challenges and solutions of getting AI models into production and where MLOps differs from traditional engineering. They discuss why so few ML projects make it to production and how to focus as an organization to actually launch.

heavybit.com · 37 min

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EFFORT

The Effort library allows for real-time adjustment of the number of calculations performed during inference of an LLM model, resulting in significant speed improvements while retaining most of the quality. Despite some implementation overhead, initial results suggest that the Effort library has the potential to significantly improve LLM inference speed while maintaining quality. The author encourages others to test the 0.0.1B version and provide feedback to further improve the library.

bit.ly · 5 min

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DRIVING WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE

Wayve's Lingo-2 is a VLM train in simulation for autonomous driving tasks. It performs driving actions based on video input. Lingo-2 includes descriptions of reasoning for the driving actions it takes based on the scene.

bit.ly · 7 min

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THE SHIFTING DYNAMICS AND META-MOATS OF AI

Building a successful AI company requires navigating complex short, mid, and long-term dynamics and maintaining elite speed and execution, owning more of the stack, gathering unique data, and leveraging synthetic data generation. As the AI industry matures, companies must adapt to shifting talent dynamics and understand the machine they are building and the axes of competition they are predicated on to create lasting moats and stand out amidst the noise.

bit.ly · 14 min

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VERIFY WEIGHTS DDP PYTORCH (GITHUB GIST)

Verifying training when sharding across devices can be challenging - this handy snippet verifies that things have been done and updated properly.

gist.github.com

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GOOGLE MAPS WILL USE AI TO HELP YOU FIND OUT-OF-THE-WAY EV CHARGERS

Google Maps will use AI to summarize directions to EV chargers as well as provide reliability and wait times.

theverge.com · 2 min