The Daily Index — Monday, April 29, 2024 · TLDR Index

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COHERE LAUNCHES DEVELOPER TOOLKIT TO ACCELERATE BUILD GEN AI APPS

Cohere launched a new developer toolkit to make enterprise AI application building faster and simpler across any cloud provider so developers can deploy in production at scale. With the Cohere Toolkit, developers have the source code to accelerate their development and quickly set up an application within just a few days.

cohere.com · 3 min

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THE LITTLE SMART HOME PLATFORM THAT COULD

Home Assistant has joined the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aimed at countering Big Tech's influence by prioritizing privacy, choice, and sustainability in the smart home domain. The transition to a foundation-owned entity allows the platform to scale its consumer appeal while retaining its core open-source principles. Upcoming developments include direct-to-consumer sales on Amazon, certified partner expansions, local voice control hardware, AI integration with Nvidia, and user interface improvements for broader home approval.

theverge.com · 8 min

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LET'S THINK DOT BY DOT

This paper shows that chain-of-thought (CoT) thinking can be obfuscated with ‘...' tokens. This requires training the model but shows that interpreting the CoT steps may not be possible and thinking can be hidden by the model.

arxiv.org · 23 min

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VIDEO-LANGUAGE MODELS WITH PLLAVA

Researchers have introduced a new model called PLLaVA, which stands out by adapting image-language AI models for video tasks using a unique pooling strategy.

pllava.github.io · 4 min

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TRACKGPT: OBJECT TRACKING WITH INSTRUCTION-BASED TECHNIQUE

TrackGPT integrates Large Vision-Language Model capabilities to transform object tracking. It understands implicit instructions for tracking, streamlining the process and enhancing performance, as shown in its impressive results on the new InsTrack benchmark and other challenging datasets.

arxiv.org · 15 min

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LLAMAFILE 2X SPEED UPDATE

Llamafiles are self-contained executables that run models directly on any platform. It boasts a 2x speed up and substantial improvements to portability.

hacks.mozilla.org · 11 min

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FRUGALGPT

FrugalGPT is a set of actions you can take to dramatically reduce LLM API costs. They include prompt compression, caching, and more.

portkey.ai · 13 min

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JENSEN HUANG AND SAM ALTMAN INVITED TO FEDERAL AI SAFETY BOARD

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has formed the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, which features leaders from major tech companies and various sectors, to advise on AI issues including national security and infrastructure, with quarterly meetings starting in May.

theregister.com · 2 min

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