Nice to see Google finally catching up in the LLM race
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Stanford HAI leads national cloud computing initiative with universities and tech
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@StanfordHAI has been championing this effort since we formed in 2019. We organized universities and tech companies to support this endeavor in 2020. https://
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U.S. Government Task Force for National AI Research Resource
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We also called for the creation of a U.S. government-led task force to establish a NAIRR. “Support from Congress and the President could have a meaningful impact on American innovation,” said @StanfordHAI Co-Directors John Etchemendy and @drfeifei
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LLM Evaluation Methods and Gemini Pro Performance on LMSYS
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Evaluation of LLMs is very hard and nuanced (especially academic evals which are leaked massively). Evals that rely on human judgement are far superior, so it feels good that Bard Gemini Pro (free tier) climbed pretty high on lmsys Looking forward to Gemini Ultra release!
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Weekly AI News Roundup: Magic Video, Lumiere, ActAnywhere
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Did you miss this week's AI news? Much of it flew under the radar. Here's a roundup of all the news you might have missed… https://
youtube.com/watch?v=LAa76d
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0:13 Magic V2
1:47 Google Lumiere
5:03 ActAnywhere
6:44 Kanye's AI
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GPT-4 Turbo adoption exceeds 70% among API customers
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No precise timeline on getting it out of preview, but you can absolutely use it in production. In fact, over 70% of requests from GPT-4 API customers have already transitioned to GPT-4 Turbo!
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Databricks Wins Five Datanami Readers Choice Awards
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We’re out here collecting Datanami Readers Choice Awards like Infinity Stones Thank you to everyone who voted for us and helped us win FIVE total awards! https://
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Google Search faces competition from Bing, Perplexity, ChatGPT
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Interesting time for Google Search:
— Aaron Ng (@localghost) 26 janvier 2024
> Edge defaults to Bing, which has been improving.
> Safari defaults to Google but only because Google pays.
> Perplexity becoming option for power users, like Google was for Yahoo.
> ChatGPT beats Google at most queries for information. https://t.co/7niqhhyXh8Interesting time for Google Search: > Edge defaults to Bing, which has been improving. > Safari defaults to Google but only because Google pays. > Perplexity becoming option for power users, like Google was for Yahoo. > ChatGPT beats Google at most queries for information.
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New Browser and Search Engine Contenders Signal Paradigm Shift
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the first new browser contender in ages pairing with the first new search contender in ages.
— Aaron Ng (@localghost) 26 janvier 2024
has all the inklings of a paradigm shift if they nail the experience. https://t.co/7niqhhyXh8the first new browser contender in ages pairing with the first new search contender in ages. has all the inklings of a paradigm shift if they nail the experience.
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Testing Bard: Evaluating Google’s AI Assistant Performance
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Is that good? Impressive work. Time to give Bard another test run.