AWS VP Dr. Matt Wood, speaking at the AWS Summit in New York today, said AWS has launched more ML and generative AI features into GA than 'other leading cloud providers combined' in the past year and a half. presumably 'Company 1' is Google and 'Company 2' is Microsoft
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Computing Scale and Emerging AI Risks: A Critical Analysis
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Does more compute equate with greater risk? What is our track record at predicting what risks emerge with scale? I don't have much time anymore to write, but this felt important enough to write down some thoughts on. arxiv.org/pdf/2407.05694v1
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2024-07-10 05:23 UTC
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7th Neural Scaling Laws Workshop at ICML 2024
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Sign up now to attend the 7th workshop on Neural Scaling Laws at ICML 2024 Cerebras and CERC-AAI are hosting a workshop on Scaling, Alignment, Transfer Learning, and multilingual Models. July 22, 2024, 9:00AM Local Time Courtyard Vienna Prater/Messe, 4
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Delta Lake UniForm GA: Unified Data Access Across Tools
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Delta Lake UniForm is now GA! UniForm combines Delta Lake’s superior price-performance with access to every tool in your stack. Write a single copy of your data and make it available to any engine that supports the primary open table formats. https://
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Q2_K Quantization Achieves FP32 Base Model Performance
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Q2_K quantized model meets its FP32 base
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Better Performance Through Right Customization
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Seeing performance way better when customizing right now
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AI Unplugged: Kate Crawford and Toby Walsh Discussion
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AI unplugged! @katecrawford in conversation with @TobyWalsh Join us for a fascinating discussion on the impact of artificial intelligence. #AI @unsw_ai @csesoc @UNSWCOMPUTING @UNSWEngineering eventbrite.com.au/e/ai-unplu…
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2024-07-08 23:02 UTC
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Data Engineering and Streaming Innovation Recognized in Industry Reports
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We’re thrilled to have our innovative approach to data engineering and data streaming recognized in two new reports:
– 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytic Stream Processing
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Canada’s AI Infrastructure: Building Domestic Compute Innovation
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$2B for #AI infrastructure in #Canada is crucial, but domestic development is key. Our VP of Product, @beach66
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's latest tech newsletter. Read more at the link below. https://
readthepeak.com/stories/07-24-
a-buy-local-approach-to-canada-s-ai-strategy/
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MoE Token Independence Enables Efficient Long Context Processing in vLLM
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@avshalomm solved it by utilizing the fact that actually, there is no interaction between different tokens in the MoE block, so we can iterate over the long context in chunks. This was also merged and now fixed in vLLM
