remains to be seen but they have slightly different goals. Llama 4 vs Claude 4 will be a VERY interesting fight in 2025.
@latentspacepod
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Vision Becomes Table Stakes Across Major LLM Platforms
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2024 was the year Vision became table stakes – we went from "only OAI has it" in jan to now Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, Olmo and even Llama having vision support! Where to get started in Vision + LLMs: 1. just get hands on experience with using vision in 4o/claude/gemini
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Essential AI Benchmarks and Evaluation Metrics for LLMs
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Must Know Benchmarks and Evals: Knowledge: @hendrycks
' MMLU and MATH, @idavidrein
's GPQA and BIG-Bench and their polyunsaturated 2025 variants. Ditto Math lvl 5, AIME, @tamaybes
's FrontierMath, etc Long Context: @ZayneSprague
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Frontier LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and competitors
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Section 1: Frontier LLMs the @openai canon, @AnthropicAI Claude and @GoogleDeepMind Gemini, @AIatMeta Llama 1/2/3, @MistralAI
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2025 AI Engineering Reading List: Weekly Papers
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Presenting: The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List https://
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2024 Synthetic Data and Small Models: Best Papers Recap
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## Recapping 2024 in Synthetic Data/Smol Models! We are very honored to have @LoubnaBenAllal1 recap and pick all the best papers in: Synthetic Data and Smol Models this year! Timestamps [00:00:05] Loubna Intro
[00:00:33] The Rise of Synthetic Data Everywhere
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Post-Transformer Architectures: SSMs vs RWKV Comparison
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## The Best of 2024 in Post-Transformers Arch We're very honored to feature a special joint talk between rival teams working on subquadratic attention: – @realDanFu of @togethercompute (SSMs)
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Open Models Exploded in 2024 Despite Upcoming Challenges
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The good news: Open models -exploded- in 2024! We were honored to have @soldni and @sophiamyang break down the incredible year in open models in our latest published pod! The bad news? Incentives, regulation, resource constraints, and many more challenges in 2025. If the
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Most Important Computer Vision Papers 2024 Trends
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Presenting: The Most Important Vision Papers of 2024 as picked by @roboflow and @vikhyatk The biggest trends are: 1. Vision and are converging -> Sora and OpenSora were built with Diffusion Transformers and MagViT
-> @nikhilaravi extended SAM from images to video 2.
