Last Week in AI

#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI

Mar 31, 2024

In the latest discussion, Claude-3 surpasses GPT-4 in user preference, signaling a shift in AI development. The stability AI CEO resigns to focus on decentralized solutions, while Amazon's hefty investment in Anthropic underscores the booming AI sector. Samsung leads the smartphone AI race, challenging Apple. The podcast also highlights Intel's impressive Gaudi 2 performance in comparison to NVIDIA's H100. Plus, a UN resolution raises ethical questions around AI and human rights, emphasizing the need for responsible deployment in the tech landscape.

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Claude-3 Haiku matches GPT-4 level preference, showcasing user-driven AI advancement.

Stability AI CEO resigns for decentralized AI pursuit, signaling industry shifts.

Intel Gaudi 2 competes with NVIDIA H100 in MLPerf benchmarks, shaping AI hardware landscape.

Tactic AI models optimize football corner kicks, blending deep learning with sports expertise.

Deep dives

Databricks Unveils D.B. Rax, a State-of-the-Art Language Model Outperforming Predecessors

D.B. Rax, a new general purpose language model by Databricks, surpasses GPT 3.5 and competes with Gemini One Pro, trained on 12 trillion tokens of text and code data, offering impressive coding performance and speed.

Insights into the Linearity of Relation Decoding in Transformer Language Models

04:22

Release of Partial Data Set and Future Data Planning

00:53

Opportunity for Promotion in Alliance Well-Vov Podcast

01:41

Intro

2min

AI Insights and Sponsorship Reflections

5min

AI Competition and Innovation

24min

Comparative Analysis of Gaudi 2 and NVIDIA H100 Performance

2min

Massive Funding for Optical Interconnectivity in AI Hardware

2min

Revolutionizing Robotics: A New Era of AI and Collaboration

27min

Advancements in AI Training and Models

22min

Huawei's Resilience and the AI Landscape

12min

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Note - one extra story we didn't get to but worth knowing from this week: ‘Totally surreal’: OpenAI shares first short films created with new AI tool Sora

Timestamps + links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter
Tools & Apps
- (00:05:20) Google starts testing AI overviews from SGE in main Google search interface
- (00:10:00) Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers
- (00:13:53) Claude-3 Haiku has reached GPT-4 level by our user preference
- (00:15:26) Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features
- (00:17:16) Samsung is beating Apple in the race to bring AI to smartphones
- (00:19:18) Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week
Applications & Business
Projects & Open Source
- (00:38:40) Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM
- (00:44:06) Common Corpus: A Large Public Domain Dataset for Training LLMs
- (00:46:07) DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset
- (00:48:15) InternLM2 Technical Report
Research & Advancements
- (00:51:49) TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics
- (00:55:44) On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- (00:59:26) AutoDev: Automated AI-Driven Development
- (01:02:48) Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse
- (01:07:43) Cobra: Extending Mamba to Multi-Modal Large Language Model for Efficient Inference
- (01:09:48) Gamba: Marry Gaussian Splatting with Mamba for single view 3D reconstruction
Policy & Safety
- (01:11:12) General Assembly adopts landmark resolution on artificial intelligence
- (01:16:24) Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza
- (01:19:49) LINEARITY OF RELATION DECODING IN TRANSFORMER LANGUAGE MODELS
- (01:24:52) US Weighs Sanctioning Huawei’s Secretive Chinese Chip Network
- (01:27:51) New York City welcomes robotaxis — but only with safety drivers
- (01:28:40) The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
Synthetic Media & Art
- (01:31:17) BBC Will Stop Using AI For ‘Doctor Who’ Promotion After Receiving Complaints

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Last Week in AI

#161 - Claude 3 beats GPT-4, Stability CEO resigns, DBRX, TacticAI, UN resolution on AI

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Deep dives

Databricks Unveils D.B. Rax, a State-of-the-Art Language Model Outperforming Predecessors

Celestial AI Secures a Massive $175M Series C Funding for AI-Powered Robotics

Apollo, the Texas-Based Robot, Joins the Workforce, Aiding in Assembly and Inspection Tasks

Play US Collaborates with DeepMind to Develop Tactic AI for Livable FC

Study on Persuasion by Large Language Models Through Debates

Insights into Transformer Computation Process

US Imposes Sanctions on Chinese Chip Networks

Insights into the Linearity of Relation Decoding in Transformer Language Models

Release of Partial Data Set and Future Data Planning

Opportunity for Promotion in Alliance Well-Vov Podcast

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Deep dives

Databricks Unveils D.B. Rax, a State-of-the-Art Language Model Outperforming Predecessors

Celestial AI Secures a Massive $175M Series C Funding for AI-Powered Robotics

Apollo, the Texas-Based Robot, Joins the Workforce, Aiding in Assembly and Inspection Tasks

Play US Collaborates with DeepMind to Develop Tactic AI for Livable FC

Study on Persuasion by Large Language Models Through Debates

Insights into Transformer Computation Process

US Imposes Sanctions on Chinese Chip Networks

Insights into the Linearity of Relation Decoding in Transformer Language Models

Release of Partial Data Set and Future Data Planning

Opportunity for Promotion in Alliance Well-Vov Podcast

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