TLDR AI

TLDR AI 2024-03-25

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01HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

EMAD RESIGNS AS STABILITY AI CEO

Emad Mostaque, a prominent and divisive figure, has resigned as CEO of Stability AI to pursue decentralized AI. Stability AI's COO and CTO are now Co-CEOs as the company searches for a permanent figure.

stability.ai2 min read

OPENAI IS PITCHING SORA TO HOLLYWOOD

OpenAI is pitching its video generation tool Sora to a number of Hollywood studios, talent agencies, and media executives.

theverge.com1 min read

02RESEARCH & INNOVATION

DEEPDIVE: USING CHATGPT TO BUILD C EXTENSIONS FOR SQLITE

This post contains a deep dive into how to use ChatGPT (or any language model) to write code in an unfamiliar language for a challenging task. Its author uses ChatGPT’s code interpreter to write, compile, and download new bindings for the popular database SQLite.

simonwillison.net27 min read

PRIVACY-PRESERVING TRANSFER LEARNING

HETAL introduces a new approach to transfer learning that ensures data privacy through Homomorphic Encryption, marking a significant step forward in secure AI training.

arxiv.org16 min read

03ENGINEERING & RESOURCES

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OFFICIAL MISTRAL FINE-TUNING CODE

Mistral recently held a hackathon. As part of it, the company announced v0.2 of its 7B model and released code on how to fine-tune its language models. The code is clean and concise.

github.comGitHub repository

OPTIMAL TRANSPORT FOR BIG DATA

Optimal Transport theory is a rich area of mathematics and computation that deals with distances between probability distributions. This repository contains an extremely comprehensive reading list for scaling Optimal Transport in both speed and accuracy.

github.comGitHub repository

ENHANCED IMAGE RESTORATION WITH ADALR

AdaIR introduces an all-in-one image restoration network that leverages frequency mining and modulation to tackle various forms of image degradation such as noise, blur, and haze.

github.comGitHub repository

04MISCELLANEOUS

UNTANGLING CONCERNS ABOUT CONSOLIDATION IN AI

The recent acquisition of Inflection's talent by Microsoft reignited debates around the biggest tech companies gaining too much control over AI development. While their resources allow rapid progress on core language models, there are valid worries about the concentration of power limiting innovation and transparency. This article explores the complex tradeoffs as the commercialization of AI moves forward.

generatingconversation.substack.com7 min read

TIPS FOR FP8 TRAINING

The Databricks Mosaic team has continued to innovate on their language model training. In this post, they discuss the training stack used for fp8 and some of the benefits that come from reducing precision.

databricks.com16 min read

COMPRESSING 3D GAUSSIAN SPLATTING DATA

This project introduces the Hash-grid Assisted Context (HAC) framework, which achieves over 75X compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) data, outperforming current standards.

yihangchen-ee.github.io4 min read