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3/22/2024
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📌 Exciting lineup for apply() 2024 is now live

Exciting news! The agenda for apply() 2024, Tecton's premier virtual conference dedicated to mastering AI and ML at production scale, is now live! Join us on Wednesday, April 3, for a day packed
3/21/2024
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Edge 380: Inside SELF-Discover: Google DeepMind's LLM Reasoning Method for Solving Complex Tasks

The techniques addresses some of the limitation of prompting methods such as chain-of-thought. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
3/19/2024
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Edge 379: A Summary Of Our Series About LLM Reasoning

In 13 issues, this series covered the fundamental concepts, research and tech around reasoning in LLMs. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
3/18/2024
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Explore the Global Generative AI Landscape 2024 by AIport

Our friends from AIport – an online community of AI writers and practitioners – have just released Volume I of the Global Generative AI Landscape 2024. This landscape provides a comprehensive analysis
3/17/2024
11 : 14

One AI for Navigating Any 3D Environment

A very impressive new model created by Google DeepMind is able to follow language instructions in any 3D environment. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
3/15/2024
11 : 34

📌 Exciting news! The speaker lineup for apply() 2024 is now live

The speaker lineup for apply() 2024 is now live and we can't wait to show you! Join industry leaders, starting Wednesday, April 3rd at 9AM PT, from LangChain, Meta, Pinterest, Samsung, Vanguard,
3/15/2024
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Edge 378: Meet TimesFM: Google's New Foundation Model for Time-Series Forecasting

The model is about 200M parameters and has been trained in over 100 billion data points. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
3/12/2024
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Edge 377: LLM Reasoning with Reinforced Fine-Tuning

A very recent LLM reasoning technique created by ByteDance research. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
3/11/2024
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📝 Guest Post: Evaluating LLM Applications*

To successfully build an AI application, evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) is crucial. Given the inherent novelty and complexities surrounding LLMs, this poses a unique
3/10/2024
11 : 14

Can I Solve Science?

A brilliant essay by Stephen Wolfram explores this challenging question. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
3/8/2024
12 : 34

📌 ML Engineering Event: Lineup for apply() 2024 is Now Live!

Exciting news! The speaker lineup for apply() 2024 is now live. Join industry leaders from LangChain, Meta, and Visa for insights to master AI and ML in production. Here's a sneak peek of the
3/7/2024
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Edge 376: The Creators of Vicuna and Chatbot Arena Built SGLang for Super Fast LLM Inference

Created by LMSys, the framework provides a tremendous optimizations to improve the inference times in LLMs by 5x. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
3/6/2024
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The Sequence Chat: Yohei Nakajima on Creating BabyAGI, Autonomous Agents and Investing in Generative AI

The creator of one of the most popular open source generative AI projects shares his views about AI tech, investing and the future. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏
3/5/2024
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Edge 375: Meta's System 2 Attention is a Very Unique LLM Reasoning Method

The method has been inspired by cognitive psychology and has immediate impact in LLM reasoning. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏
3/3/2024
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Text-to-Video Games and 1-Bit Models: Two Monumental Generative AI Research Milestones in One Week

Two papers that open new possibilities for generative AI. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
3/1/2024
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📌 You're invited to GenAI Productionize 2024

Don't miss this industry-first summit on productionizing enterprise generative AI ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
2/29/2024
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Edge 374: Some Technical Details we Learned About OpenAI's Sora

The text-to-video model that astonished the world includes several clever engineering optimizations. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
2/27/2024
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Edge 373: Computationally Efficient LLM Reasoning with ReWOO

In this Issue: An overview of ReWOO as an LLM reasoning method. A review of ReWOO's research paper. An introduction to LLMFlows, a framework for building LLM applications. 💡 ML Concept of the Day:
2/25/2024
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Google Goes Small and Open Source with Gemma

Gemma is based on the core architecture powering Gemini. ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌
2/23/2024
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📝 Guest Post: LoRA Land: 25 Fine-Tuned Mistral-7b LLMs that Rival or Outperform GPT-4

In this guest post, Predibase team discusses their recent release of LoRA Land that they built to demonstrate a real world example of how smaller, task-specific fine-tuned models can cost-effectively