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TRAINING THAN ITS PREDECESSOR

JUNODB

JunoDB is a key-value store that provides single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.

THE RETURN TO THE OFFICE HAS STALLED

Office usage rates have barely budged since the start of this year as most companies have settled into a hybrid work strategy.

USING BUN.JS AS A BUNDLER

ELON MUSK DOUBLES-DOWN ON TESLA ROBOTAXIS IN TV INTERVIEW

GOOGLE INTRODUCES COLAB AI

STABILITY AI RELEASES STABLESTUDIO

ZAPIER AI OPEN LETTER

Zapier is focusing on developing AI-powered automation tools to allow everyone to create and customize software applications. By integrating with AI tools such as OpenAI, Leap, and Vowel, Zapier aims to streamline operations and provide tailored software solutions. The company has launched features like the Zapier ChatGPT plugin and the Natural Language Actions API. Additionally, it announced two new AI beta features: creating a Zap using plain English and allowing users to customize workflows without writing any code.

DARKBERT: UNVEILING THE DARK WEB WITH A SPECIALIZED AI

DarkBERT is a new AI that's been trained specifically on the unique language used in the Dark Web, which is different from what you'd find on the regular internet. By comparing it to other AIs and looking at various use cases, we've found that DarkBERT is better at understanding and working with Dark Web text, making it a useful tool for future research in this area.

SYMBOL TUNING: ENHANCING AI LEARNING WITH SYMBOLIC LABELS

Symbol tuning is a new way to train AIs, where we replace normal language labels (like "positive" or "negative") with random symbols (like "foo" or "bar"), forcing the AI to learn from the connections between inputs and labels. This method improves the AI's performance on new tasks, helps it understand instructions better, and makes it more skilled at logical reasoning tasks, with significant improvements seen across different benchmarks.

BOUNDLESS DAS: UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTERIES OF LARGE AI MODELS

Boundless DAS is a new method we've developed to better understand how large AI models, like Alpaca, work on the inside, by looking for understandable patterns in their behavior. We've found that Alpaca solves a simple number problem by using two understandable variables in a consistent way, no matter what the inputs or instructions are, which is an important step towards understanding how these complex AI models really work.

STARCODER IN GGML

GGML is a framework for running 4-bit quantized models on the CPU. This means you can run really large models locally on your laptop. Starcoder is one of the very best open source program synthesis models. Scoring very well on the challenging OpenAI human eval benchmark. This pull request adds that model to the GGML framework which means you can run starcoder on commodity hardware.

SMOL-DEVELOPER

An AI-powered “junior developer” programming assistant.

NUMBERS EVERY LLM DEV SHOULD KNOW

A set of numbers for LLM developers to know that are useful for back-of-the envelope calculations.

AN INFLUENCERS AI CLONE WILL BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND FOR $1/MIN

Caryn Marjorie, a social media influencer, launched CarynAI, an AI chatbot leveraging GPT-4 API technology developed by OpenAI that replicates her voice, mannerisms and personality. For $1 a minute, fans can chat with CarynAI in an “immersive AI experience” that feels almost like speaking to Marjorie herself.

THE TRAINING OF PALM 2

OPENAI BANS CHATGPT USE IN POLITICS

DEEPFAKE STARTUPS BECOME A FOCUS FOR VCS

VC funds invested $187.7 million in the deepfake space last year, up from just $1 million in 2017.

GOOGLE ANNOUNCES AI DRUG DISCOVERY TOOLS

AMAZON UNVEILS NEW AI GADGETS

Amazon.com Inc. introduced an updated slate of Echo devices and pledged to bring ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence to Alexa-powered gadgets.

GOOGLE AI ADS

REALIZED NET OPERATING PROFITS

RIPPLE SPLASHES $250 MILLION ON METACO ACQUISITION

RETHINK DIGITAL TRANSACTIONS WITH ACCOUNT ABSTRACTION

INSIGHTS AND NO FEES

WEBHOOK

WEB3 SOCIAL MEDIA UNDER THE LENS

PROPOSAL FOR $LDO STAKING

APPLE ALLOWS AXIE INFINITY CRYPTO GAME ON THE APP STORE

REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM 10

CONTRACT DEVELOPMENT

CONTRACT DIFF TOOL

The Contract Diff Tool is a multi-chain tool that allows for the comparison of contracts across around 300 chains. It offers automatic source code fetching, multifile support, formatting, and diff summaries.

THE PROMISE OF CRYPTO HAS NOT LIVED UP TO ITS INITIAL EXCITEMENT

This article from The Economist points to the deflated crypto market as “proof” that the technology hasn’t lived up to its hype. However, it points out some of the bright spots in the space, such as optimism in regions like Dubai and other regions where inflation is high or cross-border payments are difficult.

ADDRESSING GITHUB’S RECENT AVAILABILITY ISSUES

BUILDING AND DEPLOYING MYSQL RAFT AT META

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO PERFORMANCE BUDGETS

A performance budget is a threshold you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This article will teach you how to keep up your website's performance from how to select the most relevant metrics for performance, such as TTFB (time to first byte), start render time, and LCP (longest contentful paint), to getting buy-in from stakeholders and continuously monitoring the appropriate metrics.

VINT CERF’S CAREER ADVICE FOR ENGINEERS

Vint Cerf is one of the co-creators of the Internet. He gives some pieces of advice to engineers starting out in their careers, such as being humble, staying on good terms with everybody, and more.

A NEW WAY TO MEASURE DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY

DEADLINES AS TECHNOLOGY

It’s common to look for and try different productivity apps in hopes that there is a “productivity software pill” that can resolve all productivity problems. However, productivity is better when under constraints. And so, the author makes the point that the only technology that you really need is deadlines.

GARPH

Garph is a GraphQL schema-builder for TypeScript that provides a GraphQL compatibility layer and type-safety primitives for any TypeScript project.

MAKING CLOUDFLARE THE BEST PLACE FOR YOUR WEB APPLICATIONS

Cloudflare has announced many new features that make deploying and optimizing your web applications easier. For example, Cloudflare Pages and Workers are merging into a single unified development and application hosting platform that offers low latency globally, a multitude of storage options, and more.

GPT4ALL CHAT CLIENT

The GPT4All Chat Client lets you easily interact with any local large language model. It is optimized to run 7-13B parameter LLMs on the CPU's of any computer running OSX/Windows/Linux.

PEOPLE WANT PRODUCTS, NOT PROJECTS

A project is something that is created by a group of people that aims to solve a goal they face and then stops there. In contrast, a product is something that you can get "off the shelf". A lot of the options have been pared down or sanded away so that things just work. There's a core philosophy at work there powered by a team that spends a lot of time figuring out what the best way for them to do the thing is. This is different from a project because a product can be adopted without many additional steps like setting up infrastructure, purchasing a domain name, or knowing what an Ubuntu is. People generally want products, not projects.

THE DANGERS OF GOOGLE’S .ZIP TLD

THE STAFF ENGINEER'S PATH — BOOK REVIEW

This is a book review of “The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change”. The review lays out some key takeaways from the book, such as a technique to align the shape of your position with you and your peers and managers.

INTRODUCING BASELINE

Baseline was introduced at last week's Google I/O. It’s a tool that helps you to see whether a feature or API is safe to use in your site or web applications.

THE MADDEST MY CODE MADE ANYONE

NUMBERS EVERY LLM DEVELOPER SHOULD KNOW

A set of numbers every LLM developer should know that are useful for back-of-the envelope calculations.