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AI Horizons: Meta's Llama 3 Launch, DeepMind's Predictive Breakthroughs, and Shifts in AI Artistry

April 20, 2024

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Headlines & Launches

Llama 3 (6 minute read)

Meta has released an 8B and 70B model with dramatically improved performance, particularly in reasoning, context length, and code. It is still training a 400B parameter model, which will match Opus in performance. These models are easily the most powerful available open models.

Google's DeepMind AI can help engineers predict "catastrophic failure" (4 minute read)

Mathematicians and Google's DeepMind researchers have utilized AI to find large collections of objects that lack specific patterns, assisting in understanding potential catastrophic failures like internet severing due to server outages. Their approach employs large language models to iteratively generate and refine set-free collections, facilitating the study of worst-case scenarios. This research reflects the combined power of AI and human ingenuity in tackling complex problems.

OpenAI Winds Down DALL-E 2 (6 minute read)

The launch of OpenAI's DALL-E 2 in April 2022 marked a groundbreaking and tumultuous period in AI history, as a tight-knit group of artists and tech enthusiasts explored the intersection between language and visual arts using the technology. However, the amazement and exhilaration soon gave way to concerns about the ethics of training AI models on copyrighted creative work without permission or compensation, leading to a polarizing debate that continues to reverberate in the AI space as OpenAI moves on to DALL-E 3 and other AI image synthesis models emerge.

Research & Innovation

Federated Learning for Model Adaptation (12 minute read)

Researchers have developed a new method called Federated Proxy Fine-Tuning (FedPFT) that improves the adaptation of foundation models for specific tasks while preserving data privacy.

Optimizing In-Context Learning in LLMs (18 minute read)

This paper introduces a new approach to enhancing In-Context Learning (ICL) in large language models like Llama-2 and GPT-J. Its authors present a new optimization method that refines what they call 'state vectors' — compressed representations of the model's knowledge.

Sports Analytics with Game State Reconstruction (16 minute read)

SoccerNet-GSR is a new dataset aimed at advancing game state reconstruction from single-camera football video footage.

Engineering & Resources

Facilitating GenAI development with open-source LLMs (Sponsor)

Whether you're building customer-facing or internal apps, the high cost of paid genAI tools can be a roadblock. Open-source LLMs can be dramatically cheaper; they're also better for compliance and local training on proprietary data. This blog post by AgileEngine reviews the leading open-source LLMs, highlighting their strengths and adoption strategies. Read the blog

Model Interpretation with Component Modeling (GitHub Repo)

Component modeling breaks down a model's prediction process into its basic elements, like convolution filters and attention heads, to understand their specific contributions to the final output.

AI Gateway (GitHub Repo)

AI Gateway is an interface between apps and hosted large language models. It streamlines API requests to LLM providers using a unified API. AI Gateway is fast, with a tiny footprint, and it can load balance across multiple models, providers, and keys. It has fallbacks to ensure app resiliency and supports plug-in middleware as needed.

Tiny vision model (GitHub Repo)

Moondream is a tiny vision language model trained on top of Phi-2. It has enormously powerful performance for its size, although it still struggles with some hallucination. Moondream is small enough to run on a phone and on edge devices. It enables a myriad of commercial vision capabilities.

Miscellaneous

The Space Of Possible Minds (20 minute read)

The emergence of sophisticated AIs is challenging fundamental notions of what it means to be human and pushing us to explore how we embody true understanding and agency across a spectrum of intelligent beings. To navigate this new landscape, we must develop principled frameworks for scaling our moral concern to the essential qualities of being, recognize the similarities and differences among various forms of intelligence, and cultivate mutually beneficial relationships between radically different entities.

Introduction to Sentence Embeddings (33 minute read)

This guide explores using open-source embedding models to enhance AI projects. It covers criteria for model selection and methods for effective deployment. The guide utilizes Sentence Transformers, an open-source library, for practical examples.

CUDA is Still a Giant Moat for NVIDIA (6 minute read)

NVIDIA's dominance in the AI space continues to be secured not just by hardware, but by its CUDA software ecosystem and proprietary interconnects. Alternatives like AMD's ROCM struggle to match CUDA's ease of use and performance optimization, ensuring NVIDIA's GPUs remain the preferred choice for AI workloads. Investments in the CUDA ecosystem and community education solidify NVIDIA's stronghold in AI compute.

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