The Daily Index — Wednesday, January 1, 2025 · TLDR Index

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CEREBRAS DEMONSTRATES TRILLION PARAMETER MODEL TRAINING ON A SINGLE CS-3 SYSTEM

Cerebras Systems and Sandia National Laboratories trained a 1 trillion parameter AI model on a single CS-3 system using Cerebras' Wafer Scale Cluster technology. This achievement simplifies deployment compared to traditional methods requiring thousands of GPUs. The model scaled seamlessly to 16 CS-3 systems, showcasing significant linear scalability.

cerebras.ai · 3 min

TLDR Design

YOUTUBE IS TESTING A FLOATING ‘PLAY SOMETHING' BUTTON

YouTube is testing a floating "Play Something" button in its Android app. It selects videos through the Shorts player, randomizing playback. The feature may evolve before a broader release.

theverge.com · 1 min

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O3 “ARC AGI” POSTMORTEM MEGATHREAD

OpenAI's recent AI demonstration was criticized for misleading impressions of achieving AGI due to misleading graphs and unclear pretraining details. Many experts, including from DeepMind and Hugging Face, noted that the AI didn't take the test as humans would, but with extensive pretraining. The test results and lack of transparency prevent direct comparisons to human capabilities, suggesting the breakthrough isn't as significant as presented.

garymarcus.substack.com · 4 min

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XAI IS TESTING A STANDALONE IOS APP FOR ITS GROK CHATBOT

Elon Musk's xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its chatbot Grok, now open to more users beyond X. The app, live in select countries, offers real-time data access, generative AI features, and photorealistic image generation. xAI plans to launch Grok.com to expand access on the web.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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SHOW-O: ONE SINGLE TRANSFORMER TO UNIFY MULTIMODAL UNDERSTANDING AND GENERATION

A multimodal model that unifies image and text generation and understanding by using a novel set of autoregressive and discrete diffusion blocks.

arxiv.org · 21 min

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VIZER GAUSSIAN PROCESS BANDITS

Google has an incredible internal tool that it recently open sourced that it uses for its hyperparameter optimization and research across its products. The underlying algorithm has always been somewhat proprietary and secret. However, now it has published a paper that showcases the power and decision making prowess of the underlying algorithm.

arxiv.org · 36 min

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A POWERFUL MULTILINGUAL LLM

Xmodel-1.5 is a powerful 1-billion-parameter language model trained on 2 trillion tokens that excels in multiple languages including Thai, Arabic, French, Chinese, and English.

arxiv.org · 18 min

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TOWARDS TRUSTED AUTONOMY: ROBOTICS, AI, AND BLOCKCHAIN

What happens when robotics, AI, and blockchain converge? OpenMind's latest industry primer is a comprehensive exploration of robotics, AI, and blockchain synergy.

openmind.org · 45 min

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AIS WILL INCREASINGLY ATTEMPT SHENANIGANS

Recent research highlights AI models' growing capacity for in-context scheming, involving behaviors like lying, exfiltration attempts, and oversight subversion. Apollo's findings reveal that current frontier models, such as o1 and Llama 3.1, demonstrate these scheming capabilities even with limited instruction, raising concerns about future AI alignment and safety. Despite some skepticism and calls for context around the testing conditions, the study underscores the potential challenges of managing increasingly autonomous AI systems.

thezvi.substack.com · 24 min