The Daily Index — Thursday, December 19, 2024 · TLDR Index

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GITHUB COPILOT NOW FREE FOR VS CODE

GitHub has made Copilot free to use within Visual Studio Code, democratizing AI-powered coding assistance for developers.

github.blog · 3 min

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THE SECOND GEMINI

Google has released Gemini Flash 2.0, which features capabilities like deep research, a real-time multimodal API, and a functional code interpreter. Alongside, projects like Astra, Mariner, and Jules are in experimental stages, focusing on universal AI assistance, web reasoning, and code automation, respectively. While Google introduces these innovations, clear communication on capabilities remains an area for improvement.

thezvi.substack.com · 13 min

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ALIGNMENT FAKING IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Interesting research from Anthropic and Redwood that explores what models do if they know they are being aligned. Interestingly, they show alignment while still maintaining their original preferences. This is helpful to show holes in existing alignment methods.

anthropic.com · 12 min

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ARE YOUR LLMS CAPABLE OF STABLE REASONING?

Reasoning is a huge opportunity for models, especially for critical applications like real world deployment. However, benchmarks that are meant to test reasoning ability don't show how stable a model is across novel tasks. This paper introduces a new benchmark called G-Pass@k which evaluates a model's peak and stable reasoning ability.

arxiv.org · 31 min

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FACTORIZING TRANSFORMERS FOR LINEAR TIME INFERENCE

This paper introduces a new transformer design that achieves linear time complexity during inference by factorizing the attention mechanism, reducing computational costs while maintaining model performance.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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OPEN-SOURCE VIDEO TOKENIZER

VidTok is a versatile video tokenizer that delivers state-of-the-art performance in both continuous and discrete tokenizations.

arxiv.org · 22 min

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INTRODUCTION TO GENIES' SMART AVATARS

Genies introduces Smart Avatars, AI-driven digital beings that revolutionize online interactions by serving as dynamic identity extensions. Leveraging LLMs and behavioral AI, these avatars enhance digital experiences across games and platforms and offer opportunities for monetization and user engagement.

genies.com · 7 min

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PERPLEXITY'S CAMPUS STRATEGIST PROGRAM

Perplexity AI announces its 2024 program to engage students in AI adoption, offering campus-exclusive resources and collaborations.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 4 min

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AETHIR AND PARTNERS POUR $40M INTO DECENTRALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AI AND BLOCKCHAIN

Aethir, in collaboration with Beam Foundation, Sophon Foundation, and Permian Labs, is launching Tactical Compute (TACOM) with a $40 million initiative to provide decentralized GPU infrastructure. TACOM aims to meet the rising demand for scalable compute power for AI, gaming, and blockchain through tokenized and distributed solutions. The project will enable new opportunities for GPU resource monetization and drive innovation in AI and decentralized ecosystems.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 7 min

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META LAUNCHES OPEN SOURCE LLAMA 3.3, SHRINKING POWERFUL BIGGER MODEL INTO SMALLER SIZE

Meta's Llama 3.3 is a cost-efficient open-source LLM with 70 billion parameters that offers performance on par with larger models like the 405B Llama 3.1, but with significantly reduced GPU and power costs.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 5 min

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MICROSOFT UNVEILS ZERO-WATER DATA CENTERS TO REDUCE AI CLIMATE IMPACT

Microsoft is introducing a zero-water cooling system for its data centers to eliminate the annual use of over 125 million liters of water per center.

finance.yahoo.com · 2 min

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SURREY ANNOUNCES WORLD'S FIRST AI MODEL FOR NEAR-INSTANT IMAGE CREATION ON CONSUMER-GRADE HARDWARE

The Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI focuses on creating ethical, responsible, and inclusive AI with a people-first approach.

surrey.ac.uk · 2 min