Introduction

Wow, one of our favorites. This week Tom and Nate have a lot to cover. We cover AI2's new OPEN large language models (OLMo) and all that means, the alchemical model merging craze powering waifu factories, model weight leaks from Mistral, the calling card for our loyal fans, and more topics.

We have a lot of links you'll enjoy as you'll go through it:

• The Mistral leak: https://huggingface.co/miqudev/miqu-1-70b/discussions/10 
• Writing on model merging: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/model-merging 
• Writing on open LLMs: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/olmo 
• The original mechanical turk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk 
• This Waifu does not exist: https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/ 
• The warriors film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--gdB-nnQkU 
• The Waifu Research Department: https://huggingface.co/waifu-research-department

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