Underrated outcome of @AnthropicAI Claude having up to 1m token context length with ~perfect recall: Claude can now confidently handle >250 tools!! When OpenAI fn calling first came out I think it was @simonw who called out that we needed "deep" functions bc of the context
GENERATIVE AI
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Command R+ Achieves Better Token Efficiency Than GPT Models
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Interesting finding from the Command R+ blog post. For many languages, Command R+ will use far fewer tokens than GPT models to represent the same text. This effectively reduces overall costs significantly.
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Anthropic Adds Tool Use to Claude 3 APIs
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Anthropic Tool Calling @AnthropicAI just added tool use to their Claude 3 APIs, which is extremely useful for structured outputs. Here's a short video explaining how to use it from the latest langchain-anthropic package! @rlancemartin also explains how to design
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Claude 3 Function Calling Enables Structured Data Extraction
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Function calling support in Claude means the structured data extraction trick I wrote about here now works with the Claude 3 models – including their vision models, notable because GPT-4 Vision doesn't support functions yet https://
til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/openai-py
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Claude Tool Use Now Available Beta Anthropic Messages API
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Tool use is now available in beta to all customers in the Anthropic Messages API, enabling Claude to interact with external tools using structured outputs. pic.twitter.com/kJHhSvyLdK
— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) 4 avril 2024Tool use is now available in beta to all customers in the Anthropic Messages API, enabling Claude to interact with external tools using structured outputs.
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Anthropic Releases Tool Use Documentation for Claude API
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We look forward to your feedback. Read more in our developer documentation: https://
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Two Advanced Webinars: LLM Optimization and Flow Engineering
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We've got two AMAZING webinars coming up on two advanced topics: "Optimization of LLM Systems" with Omar K. (author of DSPy) – TOMORROW at 9 am PT! https://
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist
er/WN_n4HUNqhFQFa4ax3kYrZW8g#/registration
… "Flow Engineering" with Itamar Friedman (author of Alpha Codium) https://
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist
er/WN_fVikSl9eQv68b3ZUdQgwzA#/registration
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Claude 3 Models Include Vision Capabilities Cheaper Than GPT-3.5
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All three of the Claude 3 models do vision, including Haiku which is cheaper than gpt-3.5-turbo
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Integrate Generative AI into Google Cloud Workflows at NVIDIA Booth
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See how you can integrate real-world #generativeAI and powerful AI capabilities into your @googlecloud workflows. Come and meet #NVIDIAInception startups @gretel_ai and @datachatAI at the NVIDIA booth at #GoogleCloudNext. Tuesday, 2pm Booth #1421 https://
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Building Great RAG Solutions with AI21’s Contextual Answers
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Building a RAG solution is easy. Building a great one is not. In our guest blog on @streamlit
, our team explores the intricacies of how AI21's Contextual Answers Task-Specific Model & our RAG Engine generate context-based answers grounded in your proprietary organizational data.
