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Launch of Aya: An Open-Source Language Model for Low Resource Languages

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The chapter discusses the release of Aya, an open-source language model developed by Go Here for AI. Aya aims to address the data scarcity issue in low resource languages and outperforms other multilingual models. The project is backed by Cohear for AI and is considered a significant release in the field.

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
- (00:03:45) ChatGPT is getting ‘memory’ to remember who you are and what you like
- (00:08:20) Reka Flash: An Efficient and Capable Multimodal Language Model
- (00:14:22) Say What? Chat With RTX Brings Custom Chatbot to NVIDIA RTX AI PCs
Applications & Business
- (00:17:49) Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
- (00:26:12) Report: China’s SMIC to begin production of 5nm chips for Huawei
- (00:30:32) A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
- (00:34:18) OpenAI reportedly developing two AI agents to automate entire work processes
- (00:37:23) Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
Projects & Open Source
- (00:39:15) Cohere for AI launches open source LLM for 101 languages
- (00:43:10 ) BUD-E: ENHANCING AI VOICE ASSISTANTS’ CONVERSATIONAL QUALITY, NATURALNESS AND EMPATHY
- (00:47:36) EVA-CLIP-18B: Scaling CLIP to 18 Billion Parameters
- (00:51:30) Introducing Stable Cascade
Research & Advancements
- (00:53:14) SELF-DISCOVER: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures
- (01:01:30) BlackMamba: Mixture of Experts for State-Space Models
- (01:05:34) An Interactive Agent Foundation Model
- (01:09:00) Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search
- (01:13:42) More Agents Is All You Need
- (01:16:04) MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
Policy & Safety
- (01:16:41) Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers
- (01:23:49) In Big Tech’s backyard, California lawmaker unveils landmark AI bill
- (01:28:06) AI Deployed Nukes 'to Have Peace in the World' in Tense War Simulation
- (01:31:32) Protesters gather outside OpenAI office, opposing military AI and AGI
- (01:35:43) AI safeguards can easily be broken, UK Safety Institute finds
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:39:35) Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit
- (01:42:25) AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits
(01:44:42) Outro

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