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TLDR AI 2024-02-20

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01HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

OPENAI VALUED AT $80 BILLION IN DEAL WITH THRIVE CAPITAL

OpenAI has reportedly reached a valuation of over $80 billion following a deal with VC firm Thrive Capital. This valuation marks a nearly 3x increase in less than 10 months, making OpenAI the 3rd highest-valued tech startup in the world. The deal involves a share sale under a "tender offer," allowing employees to cash out their shares in the company.

forbes.com2 min read

02RESEARCH & INNOVATION

KV QUANT - SCALING TO 10M TOKENS

Quantizing the KV cache, which is a technical detail of the Transformer architecture, allows it to use less memory at inference time. Quantization is the shrinking of the floating point precision with minimal loss in quality.

arxiv.org22 min read

ENHANCED SPEECH TRANSLATION

ZeroSwot is a new method for Speech Translation (ST) that overcomes the lack of data and differences between speech and text. It uses unique techniques to train a speech encoder with only speech recognition data, allowing it to work with a multilingual translation model.

arxiv.org18 min read

03ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

Sponsored

TAKE THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT OUT OF PRODUCT BUILDING

When you started building a product, you didn’t dream of endless admin and organization tasks. You wanted to make something people would love. Meet Height [11], an AI project tool to manage the work for you, invisibly, automatically, and autonomously.

height.appSponsor

LIBRARY FOR CONTROLVECTORS

ControlVectors are a way to cheaply steer semantic generation output. They are cheaper to train than LoRA but can still be quite effective. This library makes it easier.

github.comGitHub repository

OPENRLHF

This is a Ray-based implementation of RLHF for Llama-style models, which includes Mistral. It contains a number of PPO stabilization tricks to improve performance.

github.comGitHub repository

3D DIFFUSER FOR SMARTER ROBOTS

The 3D Diffuser Actor combines diffusion policies and 3D scene representations to improve robot manipulation. This AI-driven approach allows robots to understand and interact with their environment more effectively.

github.comGitHub repository

04MISCELLANEOUS

HOW TO JOINTLY TUNE LR AND WD IN ADAMW

AdamW is commonly used to decouple learning rate and weight decay. However, the common implementation in Pytorch doesn’t explicitly do this. This post discusses how to tune these parameters.

fabian-sp.github.io12 min read

INSIDE OPENAI (68 MINUTE PODCAST)

Ever wondered how OpenAI is able to innovate and build at such a fast pace? In this podcast, Logan Kilpatrick, OpenAI's head of developer relations, discusses OpenAI's unique culture, the importance of high agency and urgency, and the company's decision-making framework for launching products.

lennyspodcast.com

ENHANCING DENSE VIDEO ANALYSIS TRANSFORMERS

A new Temporal Dilated Video Transformer (TDViT) has been developed to improve the analysis of dense video tasks, such as frame-by-frame video object detection.

arxiv.org28 min read