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RETAKE

Retake provides an infrastructure for vector data streams. It features out-of-the-box data sync, real-time updates, and an extensible Python development kit. Retake is stable and efficient and can be deployed anywhere. It ensures consistency between inputs, sources of truth, and vectors without the time, complexity, and cost of maintaining pipelines.

FURY

Fury is a multi-language serialization framework. It features cross-language out-of-band serialization, a highly-extensible JIT framework, multiple binary protocols, and more. New protocols can be easily added to Fury and the optimization for one protocol can be reused for another protocol.

CONVINCED

WHY DID META OPEN-SOURCE LLAMA 2?

COMPANIES

MASTODON

YOU CAN'T STOP THE BUSINESS, OR WHY REWRITES FAIL

NETFLIX KILLS OFF CHEAPEST NO-ADS PLAN IN THE US AND UK

APPLICATIONS

OPENAI HOLDING BACK GPT-4 IMAGE FEATURES ON FEARS OF PRIVACY ISSUES

ARE FAKED OR FLAWED?

AUTOCHAIN

WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BUILDING AI APPS

THREADS USAGE DROPS BY HALF FROM INITIAL SURGE

META AND QUALCOMM TEAM UP TO RUN BIG AI MODELS ON PHONES

EMPLOYEES

HOW TO WRITE A GREAT README

TYPO LEAKS MILLIONS OF US MILITARY EMAILS TO MALI WEB OPERATOR

PRODUCING CHARTS WITH AI

Code Interpreter allows its users to create, edit, and analyze charts using English and it automatically sets up Python environments so users can focus on their work.

GENERATIVE AI SPACE AND THE MENTAL IMAGERY OF ALIEN MINDS

TWITTER IS WORKING ON NEW PUBLISHING TOOLS FOR LONG-FORM ARTICLES

COMPANY OKLO PUBLIC VIA SPAC

Oklo, an advanced nuclear fission microreactor startup, is going public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman is also the chairman of Oklo's board. The SPAC will raise as much as $500 million for the company. It will close by early 2024. The company plans to use the raised capital to ramp up its supply chain and procurement processes and for building a pilot scale production facility for its reactor. Artificial intelligence will demand a lot of energy if it scales up in the way Altman is predicting it will.

APPLE LAUNCHES ONLINE STORE ON CHINA'S GIANT WECHAT MESSAGING APP

Apple has launched an online store on WeChat. WeChat has over 1.2 billion users. It is China's biggest messaging platform. The super app also features mini-programs that lets users access services from inside WeChat. Apple's WeChat store will allow users to purchase the full line of Apple's products with free shipping. Some customers will be able to receive three-hour delivery and other Apple services, like the trade-in program.

HERE COME THE MOON LANDING MISSIONS (PROBABLY)

The next six months will see up to half a dozen missions attempt to land on the Moon. The three primary drivers in the renewed interest in the Moon include the discovery of water on the Moon in the 1990s and early 2000s, the rise of China's space program, and private companies looking to exploit resources on the lunar surface. This article provides a rundown on what to expect from the upcoming Moon missions. The missions include Chandrayaan-3 in July, Luna 25 and SLIM in August, IM-1 sometime in the third quarter of this year, Peregrin Mission One in the fourth quarter, and IM-3 near the end of the year.

CAN NEURAL STIMULATION ZAP ADDICTION?

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has shown encouraging results in clinical trials involving people addicted to various substances. The treatment has already been authorized in the US, Canada, and the EU as an aid for cigarette smokers trying to quit. Researchers are currently studying different forms of TMS that may be able to rewire the brain of people with addictions more effectively. Some treatments are currently waiting for regulatory approval. One of the downsides of TMS is the cost, which many health insurance providers do not cover.

GPT-PROMPT-ENGINEER

gpt-prompt-engineer is a tool that allows prompt engineers to take their experimentation to a whole new level. Users simply input a description of the task to be completed with some test cases and the system will generate, test, and rank prompts to find the ones that perform the best. gpt-prompt-engineer uses an ELO rating system to rate generated prompts. A classification version is available for handling classification tasks.

AI COMPANION APP

This tutorial teaches readers how to create and host AI companions that they can chat with through their browsers or via SMS. Users can choose the personality and backstory of their companions. A vector database with similarity search is used to provide conversations with more depth. These companions can be used as friends, romantic partners, coaches, and more. The tutorial is intended to be a starter stack for those curious about how chatbots are built.

THREADS AND THE SOCIAL/COMMUNICATIONS MAP

This article discusses how social media has changed over the past decade. While Threads looks a lot like Twitter on many levels, there are essential differences that may lead it to become something larger than Twitter ever was. Owning social media is a fool's errand. The most important new social networks in recent years have been notable for not really being social networks at all. Apps like TikTok showed that an abundance of easily-discoverable content can be a powerful force.

IT IS OVER. GPT-4'S DETAILS ARE LEAKED

This pastebin text contains notes detailing GPT-4's structure. GPT-4 is more than 10 times the size of GPT-3, with an estimated total of 1.8 trillion parameters across 120 layers. OpenAI utilized a Mixture of Experts model to help keep costs reasonable. The model would have cost around $63 million to train. Many more details are available in the text.

NEW CHATGPT RIVAL, CLAUDE 2, LAUNCHES FOR OPEN BETA TESTING

Claude 2 is available for users to try on a new beta website and it is also available as a commercial API for developers.

LINUXOS ACHIEVES 3% DESKTOP MARKET SHARE AFTER 30 YEARS

One of the reasons behind Linux's rise in user base is due to its strong presence in high performance computing, making it the go-to choice for AI/ML experts.

IS DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING DYING, OR JUST FADING INTO THE BACKGROUND?

Distributed computing involves taking large projects, slicing them into pieces, and then sending out these pieces to PCs for processing.

WHY DOES DID GOOGLE BRAIN EXIST?

A look at Google Brain from someone who worked in the division.

JANUARY

A memo issued by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicates that the company plans to change its hardware lineup and consolidate leases.

TIKTOK PARENT BYTEDANCE TO ALLOW US STAFF TO CASH OUT ON SHARES

TikTok's US employees will be allowed to vest their shares without waiting for their company to list on the stock market.

INSTAGRAM’S THREADS SURPASSES 100 MILLION USERS

Threads has already surpassed 100 million users, reaching the milestone dramatically faster than ChatGPT. It took ChatGPT two months to pass the mark, while Threads only launched last Wednesday. Users have made more than 95 million posts and shared 190 million likes on the platform. Mark Zuckerberg said in a post that the growth was mostly organic. Threads is still in its infancy and it is yet to be seen whether the platform will retain its users.

COMPETITIVE

This article contains a transcript of an interview with Dennis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Google DeepMind is the result of an internal merger between DeepMind and Google's previous internal AI team called Google Brain. DeepMind was purchased in 2014 and the merger was completed earlier this year. The two divisions were not focused on the same things when they were merged, resulting in a culture clash. The interview covers the merger and the dramas around it as well as AI risk and artificial general intelligence.

LONGSHOT SPACE WANTS TO MAKE SPACE LAUNCH DUMB — AND REALLY CHEAP

Longshot Space's CEO Mike Grace thinks that rockets are an overly exquisite solution to the problem of sending large masses to space. The company's answer is a kinetic launch system that will be capable of reaching hypersonic speeds and shooting projectiles to orbital velocities for as low as $10 per kilogram. Its system involves a multiple-kilometer-long horizontal concrete tunnel that is basically a vacuum chamber. The system will generate a lot of noise, so it will have to be built somewhere very remote.

SpaceX recently set a new record for the most flights by a SpaceX launch vehicle. The mission was SpaceX's 216th successful mission in a row for the Falcon rocket family. SpaceX is now aiming to fly its Falcon 9 boosters as many as 20 times. The company’s most-flown rocket, numbered B1058 in the its inventory, went through a process that included a recertification to prove that it could fly up to five more times. It first debuted with SpaceX’s first launch of astronauts in May 2020.