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TLDR AI 2024-02-23

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01GENERAL

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NEVER WASTE TIME IN MEETINGS AGAIN

Sound familiar? Your days are filled with nonstop meetings. You need every meeting to drive progress, but too often they meander with no clear outcome. Fellow ensures every meeting stays focused and impactful by creating agendas, taking notes, and following up on action items.

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02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

STABLE DIFFUSION 3

Stability AI has announced Stable Diffusion 3, a Diffusion Transformer similar to Sora from OpenAI. The company trained a suite of models ranging from 800m to 8B parameters, a substantial leap in size from previous image generation models. The models will be released after a period of research.

stability.ai2 min read

03RESEARCH & INNOVATION

PHIND 70B CODE MODEL

Phind's 70B code model scores 83% on HumanEval, matching GPT-4 performance. Crucially it has significantly fewer lazy responses and refusals. The 34B model will be released soon - the larger 70B model will be released in time.

phind.com3 min read

DETECT UNSAFE PROMPTS IN LANGUAGE MODELS

GradSafe is a new method for detecting unsafe prompts in large language models without extensive training. It can identify unsafe prompts more effectively than current methods by analyzing the gradients of specific parameters.

arxiv.org18 min read

SCENE TEXT RECOGNITION

Class-Aware Mask-guided (CAM) feature refinement is a new method that enhances text recognition in complex scenes.

arxiv.org48 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

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📢 SEMANTIC LAYER SUMMIT 2024 LINEUP ANNOUNCED

The third annual Semantic Layer Summit [15] is happening this April! This free, one-day virtual event features some of the top voices in enterprise analytics, BI, and genAI — including leading technical leaders at Mode, Netflix, T-Mobile, and AtScale.

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LIGHTWEIGHTS CPP GEMMA INFERENCE ENGINE

This codebase allows for inference on SIMD CPU architectures, similar to llama.cpp. It was developed by Google engineers and scientists. The tool's purpose is to encourage experimentation and usage of the Gemma models released yesterday.

github.comGitHub repository

MULTILINGUAL MEDICAL LANGUAGE MODELS

MMedLM 2 is a groundbreaking multilingual language model tailored for the medical field. It is trained on a new 25.5 billion-token corpus that covers six languages. MMedLM 2 outperforms other models, including GPT-4, in medical question-answering tasks.

github.comGitHub repository

OBJECT RECOGNITION AS NEXT TOKEN PREDICTION

A new method for object recognition using a language decoder. The method involves predicting text tokens from image embeddings and utilizing a specialized non-causal attention mask. It enables efficient parallel sampling of multiple labels.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

MOZILLA’S ROLE AS AN EVALUATOR IN THE NEURIPS EFFICIENCY CHALLENGE

Mozilla acted as a scalable evaluator for the efficiency challenge hosted last year. It ensured that entrants complied with the rules of the competition and evaluated model performance. This post is a good introduction to language model evaluation and competitive training recipes.

blog.mozilla.ai6 min read

FUNSEARCH: MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

FunSearch, introduced in a recent Nature paper, is a method that uses large language models to make new discoveries in mathematics and computer science. It pairs a creative LLM with an evaluator to produce verifiable solutions, demonstrating success with the tough cap set and bin-packing problems. The approach yields human-interpretable solutions, marking a significant step in AI-driven scientific discovery.

deepmind.google7 min read

MARQO RAISES $12.5 MILLION TO HELP BUSINESSES BUILD GENERATIVE AI APPLICATIONS

Vector search company Marqo raised $12.5M in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed to advance the adoption of its next-generation vector search platform. Marqo’s platform unlocks the massive value of unstructured data across business-critical applications like end-user search, retrieval-augmented generation, and more, helping enterprises realize the full potential of AI.

pymnts.com2 min read