Planet GenAI Blog
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This is weekly GenAI blog, where I provide updates on GenAI news, company developments, product releases, research summaries on specific topics, and my personal insights on GenAI products.
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GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-11-18
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The Allen Institute for AI introduced Tülu 3, an open-source model promoting transparency by providing access to all data and methodologies, while Mistral AI enhanced its generative assistant, Le Chat, with real-time web search, ideation tools, and multimodal capabilities. Black Forest Labs launched FLUX.1 Tools for advanced image editing, offering unparalleled precision in recreating and modifying images. Google and OpenAI escalated their AI rivalry, with Google’s Gemini model outperforming GPT-4o and OpenAI exploring browser integration for ChatGPT. Anthropic and Amazon deepened their partnership with a /$4 billion investment, focusing on AI hardware and integrations like Claude with Amazon Bedrock. Finally, new research emphasized adding statistical rigor to language model evaluations and introduced Marco-o1, a reasoning model leveraging advanced techniques for improved problem-solving.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-10-15
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The weekly news highlights significant advancements in AI, including NVIDIA's release of the Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B instruct model, which surpasses competitors in benchmarks, and Perplexity's new features for enhanced research capabilities. Mistral AI introduced edge models for privacy-focused applications, while Adobe MAX 2024 showcased AI enhancements in Photoshop and Illustrator. Additionally, HeyGen launched interactive AI avatars for Zoom, and Sequoia discussed the evolution of generative AI towards deeper reasoning. Andreessen Horowitz explored the concept of personalized AI companions, and recent research focused on improving long-context retrieval augmented generation in AI models.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-10-08
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Cursor led the SaaS market with significant growth in AI-powered coding tools. The Cursor team discussed their innovations in speculative edits and attention mechanisms in an interview with Lex Fridman. Anthropic launched a Message Batches API to enhance efficiency in handling large-scale operations. The research paper, Thinking LLMs, introduced thought generation to improve reasoning in AI. Another paper, LLMs Know More Than They Show, explored internal error detection mechanisms in AI models. Dario Amodei highlighted AI's potential for societal transformation in his essay, Machines of Loving Grace
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-08-19
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Ideogram 2.0, the latest version of the AI image generator, introduces several significant upgrades that position it as a strong competitor to established tools like Midjourney and DALL-E 3. A21 Labs, a leading AI research lab, has also launched Jamba 1.5, a new model family that offers improved performance and efficiency. A16z has released a Top 100 Generative AI Consumer Apps report, highlighting trends and emerging categories in AI-first web and mobile products.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-08-04
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Flux.1, a new open-source AI image generator from Black Forest Labs, has gained recognition for its quality, with three versions tailored to different needs. Wordware's AI agent creation tool topped ProductHunt, and Groq raised $640 million to scale its AI chips. Anysphere secured $60 million for its GitHub Copilot competitor, and OpenAI's John Schulman announced GPT-5's initial training phase. Lastly, a study highlighted how format restrictions degrade large language models' reasoning abilities.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-07-22
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Meta released Llama 3.1, an open-source AI model with improved reasoning, multilingual support, and a larger context window. DeepMind's AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 achieved silver-medal standards in the International Mathematical Olympiad. OpenAI introduced SearchGPT, a new AI search tool, while Mistral published a 123B model optimized for single H100 inference. Harvey, an AI startup, raised $100 million in Series C funding. Research on Generation Constraint Scaling showed that scaling the readout vector in models with explicit memory systems can significantly reduce hallucinations.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-07-08
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Significant funding rounds were announced for German defense AI firm Helsing, robotics startup Skild AI, smart city startup Hayden AI, and generative AI platform Fireworks AI. AMD plans to acquire Silo AI to bolster its enterprise AI solutions. FlashAttention-3 was published, aiming to accelerate H100 GPU performance. Additionally, Saining Xie's team released new research on scaling up 3D Gaussian Splatting training.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-07-01
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Kyutai launched Moshi, an alternative to GPT-4o voice model. Runway Gen-3 Alpha Text-to-Video Now Publicly Available. Suno Launched iOS app. Hebbia anounced $130 Million Series B. GraphRag on Github. MInference 1.0: Accelerating Pre-filling for Long-Context LLMs.
Intuition Pin: LoRA
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LoRA is a method for fine-tuning LLMs by adapting the original weights of the model. The mind map shows how LoRA works and how it can be used to fine-tune LLMs.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-06-17
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet launched. Character.ai published report on how to optimizing inference efficiency to serve over 20,000 inference queries per second (~20% of Google Search's volume). CVPR 2024 announced Best Paper Award Winners.
GenAI Weekly News Update 2024-06-10
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Big week in model launching: Luma AI launched Dream Machine while Stability AI introduced Stable Diffusion 3. OpenAI's annualized revenue reached $3.4 billion, and mistral AI lands a new round of funding.