Quick takeaways

• Alibaba has open sourced its Qun 7 billion model, a derivative of its Tongi Tianwen model, as a response to Meta's LLM, to address the challenge of training large language models to use a variety of real-world tools.

• Toyota and Pony.ai have announced plans to mass produce robotaxis in China, expanding the self-driving car market and pushing for autonomous transportation services in major cities.

• Facebook's AudioCraft, a generative AI tool for audio and music, combines three models to inspire musicians and sound designers, facilitating the iteration of compositions.

• Tool LLM documents APIs and their functionalities, enabling language models to leverage the knowledge for zero-shot tool usage, offering a trade-off between fine-tuning and utilising documentation.

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