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OUTLINE: 0:00 - Intro 0:19 - Our next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator 01:39 - ALOHA Unleashed 03:10 - Apple Inks $50M Deal with Shutterstock for AI Training Data 04:28 - OpenAI Researchers, Including Ally of Sutskever, Fired for Alleged Leaking 05:01 - Adobe's Ethical Firefly AI was Trained on Midjourney Images 05:52 - Trudeau announces $2.4billion for AI-related investments 06:48 - RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models 07:15 - CodeGemma - an official Google release for code LLMs 07:24 - Mistral AI: Cheaper, Better, Faster, Stronger 08:08 - Vezora/Mistral-22B-v0.1 09:00 - WizardLM-2, next generation state-of-the-art-LLM 09:31 - Idefics2, the strongest Vision-Language-Model (VLM) below 10B! 10:14 - BlinkDL/rwkv-6-world 10:50 - Pile-T5: Trained T5 on the Pile 11:35 - Model Card for Zephyr 141B-A39B 12:42 - Parler TTS 13:11 - RHO-1: Not all tokens are what you need 14:59 - Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal LLMs References: https://twitter.com/ayzwah/status/1780263768968273923 https://ai.meta.com/blog/next-generation-meta-training-inference-accelerator-AI-MTIA/?utm_source=twitter https://twitter.com/soumithchintala/status/1778087952964374854?t=Mb-mQvm4YIZ35pVpEijs6g&s=09 https://deepnewz.com/tech/apple-inks-50m-deal-shutterstock-ai-training-data https://twitter.com/TolgaBilge_/status/1778598047821291793?t=zInlPDRZzozcz7-pjFSnyA&s=09 https://twitter.com/javilopen/status/1778821749792034911?t=oGLiMj6GQdKTuM6GbiYrAg&s=09 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1781329523155357914?t=vCQT2mJf5BbtjdN1BMFYFQ&s=09 https://twitter.com/RichardSocher/status/1776706907295846628 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-ai-investment-1.7166234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07839 https://huggingface.co/blog/codegemma https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/ https://twitter.com/MistralAILabs/status/1780606904273702932?t=JlSCcYulpJL74pNJbtSZag&s=09 https://huggingface.co/Vezora/Mistral-22B-v0.1 https://huggingface.co/Vezora/Mistral-22B-v0.2 https://twitter.com/WizardLM_AI/status/1779899325868589372?t=l0Fd-4mfdtz3np_gALKaLA&s=09 https://twitter.com/_philschmid/status/1779922877589889400?t=7q1xg1LRy80mV8JGRm4aqA&s=09 https://huggingface.co/BlinkDL/rwkv-6-world https://blog.eleuther.ai/pile-t5/ https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1 https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1-GGUF https://twitter.com/reach_vb/status/1778138382633140276?t=Mb-mQvm4YIZ35pVpEijs6g&s=09 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07965 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05719 https://sambanova.ai/blog/samba-coe-the-power-of-routing-ml-models-at-scale https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/ https://twitter.com/twelve_labs/status/1780939765405065254?t=5ONxSzdwnghsKcwq3IPmEQ&s=09 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Av5jpsbH3g09TRD1PfRh0nLsYrN_iu7_/view https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.12387 https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12241 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.12241 https://twitter.com/Alon_Jacoby/status/1780650122382049596 https://audiodialogues.github.io/ https://os-world.github.io/ https://ai.meta.com/blog/openeqa-embodied-question-answering-robotics-ar-glasses/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_content=video&utm_campaign=dataset https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07503 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06654 https://twitter.com/amanrsanger/status/1779620682340704386?t=UnOronFwkESwAXiE0i0R4A&s=09 https://huggingface.co/datasets/xai-org/RealworldQA https://github.com/PygmalionAI/aphrodite-engine https://github.com/jina-ai/reader/?tab=readme-ov-file https://r.jina.ai/https://x.com/elonmusk https://r.jina.ai/https://github.com/jina-ai/reader https://github.com/rogeriochaves/langstream https://twitter.com/mvpatel2000/status/1777891913313440215?t=m5POrtTTS33tgwmRztQj3w&s=09 https://github.com/databricks/megablocks https://github.com/nus-apr/auto-code-rover https://github.com/nus-apr/auto-code-rover/blob/main/preprint.pdf https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1683143097604243456?t=7V_ApJFbjrm4TbxM5n3nXA&s=09 https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1777427944971083809?t=s6xYQmYkhQyiFU65Fwq9tw&s=09 https://github.com/BasedHardware/Friend https://twitter.com/argmaxinc/status/1781382688819282132?t=vCQT2mJf5BbtjdN1BMFYFQ&s=09 https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1778519566437794109?t=8N5PjwlKJpGotTx_HXZQrQ&s=09 https://twitter.com/Prince_Canuma/status/1776399292036501898 https://pytorch.org/blog/torchtune-fine-tune-llms/ If you want to support me, the best thing to do is to share out the content :)

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