The Daily Index — Thursday, June 27, 2024 · TLDR Index

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EVOLUTIONARY SCALE RAISES $142M SERIES A

Evolutionary Scale, a biology startup, just emerged from stealth with big backers. It also announced the release of its foundation model, ESM 3, which is a 98B parameter model trained on 771B biology tokens for 10^24 Flops. It used the model to discover a novel fluorescent green protein unlike any known in nature.

evolutionaryscale.ai · 12 min

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WAYMO ONE IS NOW OPEN TO EVERYONE IN SAN FRANCISCO

Waymo One now allows anyone in San Francisco to hail a ride with its autonomous vehicles. The company is scaling up operations after offering tens of thousands of trips weekly. Its all-electric fleet supports the local economy and its sustainability goals. Citing enhanced safety, Waymo says its vehicles are involved in significantly fewer crashes compared to human drivers.

waymo.com · 5 min

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NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION WITH RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED INSTRUCTION TUNING

Retrieval Augmented Instruction Tuning (RA-IT) improves information extraction using large language models.

arxiv.org · 21 min

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DEEPDIVE: SPARSE AUTOENCODERS

Golden Gate Claude was a powerful example of steering and interpreting models with SAEs. This work provides an intuitive explanation of how it works and has some example code for training these models.

adamkarvonen.github.io · 18 min

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DATA CURATION VIA JOINT EXAMPLE SELECTION FURTHER ACCELERATES MULTIMODAL LEARNING

Actively selecting the next best batch is a challenging and open problem in pre-training. This work from DeepMind explores how to spend just 10% of the FLOPs and hard mine negative samples and still match SOTA for various tasks.

arxiv.org · 25 min

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REAL-WORLD 3D SCENE GENERATION

Director3D is a framework designed to enhance real-world 3D scene generation and camera trajectory modeling. Utilizing a Trajectory Diffusion Transformer and a Multi-view Latent Diffusion Model, Director3D generates realistic 3D scenes from textual descriptions.

imlixinyang.github.io · 2 min

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THE FUTURE OF LLM-BASED AGENTS: MAKING THE BOXES BIGGER

This post shares two critical approaches that help take Agents out of the playground and into the real world: long-term planning and system-level robustness. These introduce capabilities to develop higher-order plans for Agents while allowing mid-episode adaptation as well as systems approaches to intelligent orchestration of the models that provide higher accuracy and performance.

arcus.co · 7 min

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HOW AI TRANSFORMS THE TRAVEL VALUE CHAIN

Online travel has yet to crack the end-to-end trip experience. AI offers fresh strategies for rebundling travel services, potentially shifting profits. Decision support and coordination enabled by AI will be crucial for companies to assert control over the travel rebundling process. The travel industry's future may see incumbents leveraging AI for competitive advantage, while traditional travel agents face market erosion due to AI efficiencies.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 10 min

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AI-POWERED CONVERSION FROM ENZYME TO REACT TESTING LIBRARY AT SLACK

Slack engineers utilized a hybrid approach, combining Abstract Syntax Tree transformations and AI Large Language Models, to automate the conversion of over 15,000 unit tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library. The team achieved an 80% success rate in automated conversions by integrating Anthropic's Claude 2.1 AI model and capturing the DOM tree for React components. This innovative project underscores Slack's commitment to enhancing developer experience and productivity through the application of AI. It is part of ongoing efforts to stay ahead in the ever-evolving frontend landscape.

slack.engineering · 11 min

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CHATGPT FOR MAC DESKTOP (PRODUCT)

The ChatGPT desktop app for macOS is now available for all users.

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MEDICAL MODEL ON PAR WITH GPT 4 (HUGGING FACE HUB)

This 7b model, trained on medical data, tied with GPT-4 on human preference evaluation when measured by medical doctors.

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