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01GENERAL
02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES
COPILOT WORKSPACE
GitHub has announced a new project to allow language models to somewhat autonomously finish features and fix bugs.
OPENAI INTRODUCES “MEMORY” FEATURE FOR CHATGPT PLUS USERS
OpenAI has launched a new "Memory" feature for ChatGPT Plus users, allowing the AI to retain information across conversations, which can be managed via settings.
EFFORT ENGINE
Effort enables real-time adjustment of computations during LLM model inference on Apple Silicon chips, striking a balance between speed and quality. The method, which requires no retraining but requires conversion and precomputation, allows models to operate faster by loading fewer weights. The developers are seeking assistance from Swift/Metal engineers to optimize the implementation, which is available for download on GitHub.
03RESEARCH & INNOVATION
OPEN GATO REPLICATION: JAT
GATO by DeepMind was touted to be a generalist agent. A team associated with Hugging Face has trained and evaluated JAT, which is a Jack-of-All-Trades model that performs reasonably on a wide variety of tasks.
FP6-LLM
Reducing floating point precision speeds up training but can be unstable. This paper shows that you can get full tensor core utilization in a new packing format without common instabilities or slowdowns from naive attempts.
STAR-CODER 2 15B INSTRUCT
This model is trained on synthetic and human data. Permissively licensed, it achieves 72.6 on humaneval. Its developers give great insights into how to replicate their data pipeline and apply principles to other problems where synthetic data might be useful.
04ENGINEERING & RESOURCES
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WHISPER CPP CLI
A fully self-contained speech-to-text system built on top of Whisper by the folks who built Ruff.
MEMARY
Memary allows your agents to store a large corpus of information in knowledge graphs, infer user knowledge through our memory modules, and only retrieve relevant information for meaningful responses.
MISTRAL.RS
A fast LLM inference platform that supports inference on a variety of devices, quantization, and easy-to-use applications with an OpenAI API-compatible HTTP server and Python bindings.
05MISCELLANEOUS
JAX INTERNALS
Autodidax tutorial that shows the inner ideas in the growing Jax framework. It also introduces helpful jargon often used in the community.
AI ISN'T USELESS. BUT IS IT WORTH IT?
This article provides a critical examination of AI and machine learning, arguing that while AI tools can be useful for certain tasks, they often fail to live up to the grand promises made by AI companies. It highlights the significant gap between AI's practical use cases, like coding assistance and language generation, and the inflated expectations set by industry narratives. The article raises concerns about the ethical and environmental costs of AI development, along with the potential for misuse and overreliance on the technology.
BINDING PUBLIC SECTOR AI DIFFUSION
The OMB's new AI executive order policy aimed at the public sector could severely impede AI innovation due to stringent safety provisions and bureaucratic hurdles. Implemented amidst shrinking IT budgets, the regulations may not only slow AI deployment but also potentially halt projects crucial for modernizing government services. Critics worry that these constraints, coupled with funding cuts, could prevent agencies from keeping pace with technological advances in fields like healthcare.
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MOONDREAM LLAMAFILE (HUGGING FACE HUB)
A fully self-contained VLM executable that can run on edge devices based on the Moondream 2 model, which boasts powerful performance for its size.
OPENAI WILL TRAIN ITS MODELS ON FINANCIAL TIMES' CONTENT
The Financial Times has entered into a partnership with OpenAI where OpenAI will use the publication's journalism to train its AI models and develop new AI-driven features for its readers.
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An attempt to build an open-source ecosystem for AI devices.