The Daily Index — Wednesday, July 17, 2024 · TLDR Index

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WHISTLEBLOWERS ACCUSE OPENAI OF ‘ILLEGALLY RESTRICTIVE' NDAS

Whistleblowers have accused OpenAI of placing illegal restrictions on employee communication with government regulators, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post, which urges the SEC to investigate OpenAI's severance, non-disparagement, and non-disclosure agreements for violating employees' rights to whistleblower incentives and compensation.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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APPLE, NVIDIA, ANTHROPIC USED THOUSANDS OF SWIPED YOUTUBE VIDEOS TO TRAIN AI

Several major AI companies, including Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce, used subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos across 48,000 channels to train AI models, despite YouTube's rules against unauthorized data harvesting. This has sparked backlash from content creators, who argue that their work has been exploited without consent or compensation, raising concerns about AI's impact on the creative industry and the ethics of using such training data.

proofnews.org · 10 min

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SCIENTIFIC CODING BENCHMARK

HumanEval has long been the goal for coding models. It has essentially been solved. This benchmark is the next evolution for challenging science programming problems.

scicode-bench.github.io · 18 min

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MATHSTRAL

Mistral's newest math model performs well on various benchmarks.

mistral.ai · 4 min

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CODESTRAL MAMBA

Mistral has trained a Mamba 2 code model with extreme performance in long contexts and 75% on HumanEval.

mistral.ai · 6 min

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WHAT HAPPENED TO BERT?

Great post by Yi Tay of Reka and Google on encoders, prefixlm, denoising objectives, and more modern tricks for language modeling.

yitay.net · 27 min

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SMOLLLM

A great suite of small language models from Hugging Face that outperform many larger models. The key comes in the careful curation of the dataset.

huggingface.co · 8 min

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REDIS ANNOUNCES BENCHMARK RESULTS FOR VECTOR DATABASES

Redis has unveiled new data on the top vector databases comparing latency and throughput using the industry-standard Qdrant framework. Key findings include Redis outperforming competitors by 62% for low complexity datasets and by 21% for high-dimensional datasets, achieving significantly higher queries per second and lower latency than Qdrant, Milvus, and Weaviate.

redis.io · 10 min

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GRAY SWAN AI

Gray Swan AI is an AI safety and security company that specializes in building tools to help companies assess the risks of their AI systems and safeguard their AI deployments from harmful use.

grayswan.ai · 3 min

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ANTHROPIC RELEASES CLAUDE APP FOR ANDROID

Anthropic launched the Claude Android app to expand its AI chatbot's reach, aiming to attract users from ChatGPT by offering features like real-time image analysis, language translation, and syncing across devices.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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PROJECT ATLAS DESKTOP (PRODUCT LAUNCH)

Project Atlas generates complex business automation agents step-by-step, then it outputs a no-code drag-drop graph for you to edit.

producthunt.com