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The investigation into OpenAI's sudden ousting of Sam Altman is almost over, and it appears Altman won. A new board has apparently been chosen. Leaks about the case are likely moves from the anti-Altman faction to strike first before WilmerHale's report is released. This post makes predictions about the results of the investigation and who will be on the new OpenAI board.
The House Commerce Committee has voted to approve a bill that would force ByteDance to sell the company or lose access to the US market. The bill still has to pass in the House and Senate and be signed into law before it comes into effect. TikTok is urging its users to protest the bill. Lawmakers responded by noting that the app will only be banned if it doesn't sever its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.
This article contains pictures of and details about Rivian's three new vehicles.
Hugging Face is launching a new robotics project under former Tesla staff scientist Remi Cadene - the team is now hiring robotics engineers in Paris, France.
The Chrome Canary, an early version of Chrome 124, now allows websites to be installed on desktops as progressive web apps.
Flyde is a visual programming language that integrates with existing codebases, allowing developers to create and run visual programs.
Microsoft will reveal news about Copilot AI, Windows, and Surface hardware at its March 21 event.
Inflection AI's Pi chatbot has an updated engine that is better than GPT-4 at things like math, college-level science, and coding while using only 40% of the training compute as the OpenAI model.
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Inflection has launched a new model to power its personal assistant, Pi. The model performs within 94% of GPT-4 with impressive reasoning scores on benchmarks. Inflection claims it only took 40% of the compute to train relative to GPT-4. An interesting insight from this post is that the average conversation with Pi lasts 33 minutes.
Answer AI has released a new FSDP/QLoRA training tool that makes it possible to train 70B parameter models on consumer GPUs. It has open sourced the code and made it easy to run locally or on runpod.
Cohere and Accenture are collaborating to bring cohere embedding technology to more than 9,000 enterprise clients.
Evaluating language models is typically done with hand-curated benchmarks. Some of these benchmarks are quite large, with some at over 14k examples, which leads to high expense and noise in evaluation. This work shows that you can reliably evaluate language model performance with as few as 100 examples from popular benchmarks.
A great tutorial on the different types of parallelism for training large models at scale.
DP3 introduces a cutting-edge approach to imitation learning, combining 3D visual data and diffusion policies to teach robots complex skills efficiently.
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Genstruct is a model that can be used to generate instructions from natural language text. This can then be used to train downstream models for specific useful tasks.
Fructose is a Python package for creating dependable strongly-typed interfaces around LLM calls.
A novel method enables large language models to work together by taking turns generating text, token by token. This strategy allows models to leverage their unique strengths and expertise for various tasks, leading to improved performance across instruction-following, domain-specific questions, and reasoning challenges.
There is an almost 10x difference in speed between different implementations of the popular multi-headed attention module used in modern LLMs. This notebook shows a few and benchmarks their performance.
Technology alone is no longer enough to provide a competitive advantage for GenAI companies. This makes GenAI and bottled water similar, as the underlying product is essentially the same. The key differentiators must come from factors such as user experience, distribution, perceived value to customers, branding, and marketing.
A few years ago, the concept of the metaverse seemed like it was just fiction from Ernest Cline's book, and Facebook's metaverse push seemed ill-fated. Today, things feel different. Sora generates complex video scenarios and Groq's deterministic chips reduce machine-learning algorithms for faster processing. Together, the convergence of these advancements pushes us closer to achieving real-time video simulation and true virtual reality.
Microsoft has unveiled a new Copilot chatbot tailored for finance tasks, with a public preview to come before pricing details are announced. The AI can conduct variance analysis, reconcile data in Excel, and expedite Outlook collections, integrating with SAP and Dynamics 365. The tool aims to reduce time spent on manual tasks for finance teams, potentially transforming financial planning and analysis efficiency.
Microsoft's €15 million investment in French AI firm Mistral while continuing its strong partnership with OpenAI illustrates its strategy to diversify and bolster Azure's AI offerings and gain a foothold in the European market ahead of the EU's AI Act. Azure aims to become a model garden, offering a variety of AI models to attract developers and compete with other cloud services. The Mistral deal also positions Microsoft strategically within European AI regulatory frameworks.
The SEC is investigating OpenAI, focusing on CEO Sam Altman's internal communications after accusations that he misled investors. This inquiry coincides with global attention on OpenAI's ChatGPT and scrutinizes the competitive impact of AI investments by OpenAI and tech giants in the sector.
Pantera is raising funds to purchase $250 million worth of SOL from FTX, aiming to buy at a 39% discount from the 30-day average price. This comes following FTX's bankruptcy proceedings, which allow it to sell up to $100 million per week in crypto assets. Pantera would need to hold the tokens for up to four years after purchase as per the deal's condition.
The SEC will delay its decision to approve or disapprove options trading for BlackRock's bitcoin ETF until April 24, allowing for more time to consider the proposal. It has also delayed decisions on allowing Cboe and Miax Pearl to list and trade options on spot bitcoin ETFs, with their deadlines set for the same date.
This paper describes a pioneering design for Automated Market Makers called Auction-Managed AMMs. Addressing informed trader loss and uninformed trader fee revenue optimization issues, this concept allows players to bid to manage pools and dynamically adjust swap fees. The design optimizes transaction fees, benefiting liquidity providers and retail investors and potentially attracting more liquidity than traditional AMMs, thereby enhancing efficiency on DeFi platforms.
Binance has launched a new platform, Futures NEXT, that incentivizes users to accurately predict the next tokens to be listed on its futures exchange. Users can nominate tokens and place bets on them, with successful predictions rewarded through vouchers for futures trading or fee rebates. Binance ensured users that this platform will not influence token listings and is independent of its listing process.
This post compares the concept of Token Toxicity, where stakers don't attack a protocol in fear of depreciating their staked tokens, to Slashing security. Slashing offers stronger security as it individually penalizes malicious actors, resulting in a higher cost of corruption. Protocols stand to gain more from adopting Slashing than relying solely on Token Toxicity.
This thread explores the increasing trend toward horizontal blockchain scalability. This method, unlike vertical scaling, distributes workloads across numerous nodes, allowing networks to expand by adding more machines. Vertical scaling, on the other hand, improves a single machine's abilities. Both methods have their merits, but horizontal scaling ultimately ensures global scalability and is hailed as the future of blockchain systems.
Traditional indicators for cryptocurrency market tops might not be relevant in the current cycle. The increasing influence of institutions like BlackRock on Bitcoin sentiment and the mainstream adoption of crypto could change what traditional market tops look like. Look for broader signals, such as sovereign wealth funds investing in Bitcoin, corporate treasuries diversifying into crypto, crypto company IPOs, and potential crises from over-leveraging or restaking in the sector.
This post goes over the concept of power perpetuals, assets that target an index price's power, in relation to three types of DeFi primitives, including crypto-collateralized stablecoins, margined futures, and products like Uniswap. Stablecoins are analogous to 0-perps, margined futures are 1-perps, and Uniswap-like products act as a replicating portfolio for 0.5-perps. This uncovers a compact design space across these central primitives in DeFi.
The market's demand for stablecoins via lending platforms has risen sharply, fueled by bullish positioning by traders and perceived attractive opportunities, driving up borrowing rates and yields.
This thread provides a good overview of Ordinals on Bitcoin for beginners including their history, a high-level description of them, and some examples of how they work.
Tesla and SpaceX's Bitcoin address, which holds 19,794 BTC valued at over $1.3 billion, was identified by matching on-chain fund flows with financial statements.
March's major crypto events include Ethereum's Dencun upgrade, NVIDIA's AI conference, Fantom's Sonic upgrade, FOMC's interest rate decision, and ARB's massive token unlock.
Figma has rolled out a transformative feature called multi-edit which significantly reduces the effort needed to edit across multiple designs by enabling simplified multiple-object editing in just a few clicks, aiming to blend seamlessly into the user's workflow. Developed by Sho Kuwamoto and Nikolas Klein, multi-edit diverges from conventional selection norms in design software. It is the result of an extensive process of ideation and refinement.
Wix's "Create with AI" button allows users to build entire AI-generated websites by answering a few questions from a chatbot. The process is completed in seconds, and you can edit the design, tweaking the theme and layouts. The website's content benefits from artificial intelligence. Wix offers prompts for creating images and text.
Most UX designer job applications get rejected by design-mature companies because they exhibit a linear design process in their portfolios, which are filled with cookie-cutter case studies where everything goes smoothly. To stand out, designers should include messy details and tell stories about how they adapted, grew, and became better designers because of the challenges they faced.
Although it can be uncomfortable for designers to seek feedback, it is often worse if they don’t seek it out at all and their career stalls. Asking many questions, trying to understand team members, and soliciting better feedback are critical for a designer’s growth.
A tool where designers can start generating color palettes by picking the basic colors and a style. Once generated, designers can edit the colors and preview them on multiple assets.
Animate, generate, edit, and finish designs with an AI-powered visual creative platform.
Lummi's collection comprises 13,000+ AI-crafted, highly curated images from global creators.
IKEA's collaboration with Dutch design duo Raw Color offers 18 pieces to bring vibrancy and joy to living spaces through the transformative power of color, patterns, and innovative design. The collection, embodying an experimental color philosophy, encourages self-expression and includes standout items like a color-blocked storage unit on castors, which creates an optical moiré effect and dynamic multicolored lampshades.
Embracing the concept of "working with the garage door up" enhances transparency and fosters a creative and efficient work culture by observing processes that unlock serendipity, create visibility, propagate ideas, enable early feedback, and develop shared knowledge. While teams often struggle with effectively managing transparent internal communication, tools like Campsite, designed for post-first team collaboration, aim to streamline the flow of information and idea discovery within organizations.