The new Llama language model from Meta is competitive with frontier models like GPT-4 and Claude. It's also open source and permissively licensed, including for creating synthetic data and downstream models. Read more, and try it out, in our blog today:
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Thousands of Companies Building Civilizationally Important Technology
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The next paragraph was that there are thousands of companies who believe they’re building civilizationally important tech. Obviously none alone will do it. Just picked Terraform there because I thought Casey’s tweet was good and relevant.
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Meta Commits to Open Source AI for Broader Global Access
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As Mark Zuckerberg shared in an open letter this morning: we believe that open source will ensure that more people around the world have access to the benefits and opportunities of AI, that power isn't concentrated in the hands of a small few, and that the technology can be
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Llama 3.1 405B Competes with GPT-4 and Claude
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With Llama 3.1, we evaluated performance on >150 benchmark datasets spanning a wide range of languages — in addition to extensive human evaluations in real-world scenarios. These results show that the 405B competes with leading closed source models like GPT-4, Claude 2 and Gemini
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Why the Democratic-Tech Industry Relationship Fractured
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Five reasons I think the relationship between Democrats and tech broke: 1. The Democrats are fighting tech more aggressively.
2. The “broken deal” between Democrats and tech.
3. Tech is richer than it used to be.
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Trading Investment Conference Doubles as Major AI Event
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Trading and investment conference, or AI conference? Have a guess 🙃 pic.twitter.com/2O3zJ0rOQz
— Nando de Freitas (@NandoDF) 23 juillet 2024Trading and investment conference, or AI conference? Have a guess
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Open Source AI Models Closing the Performance Gap with Closed Models
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Wow, l’open source vient doucement mais sûrement dominer le marché de l’#IA ! Les performances des modèles fermés de Google, Anthropic ou OpenAI suivent une courbe logarithmique, tandis que les performances des modèles ouverts comme Meta ou Mistral AI, bien que parties de
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Llama 3 405B Matches GPT-4o Performance on MMLU PRO
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Leaks look credible, Llama 3 405B is GPT-4o class It even outperforms GPT-4o (72.55%) and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (72.83%) in terms of MMLU PRO. The new 70B also looks insane with a significant boost of performance compared to the previous version. Note that these evals are not
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Amazon’s Five-Year Alexa Losses Challenge Business Strategy
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how many other companies would stick with a business that was doing a ~$5 billion loss per year for five years https://
wsj.com/tech/amazon-al
exa-devices-echo-losses-strategy-25f2581a
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Google abandonne l’acquisition de Wiz
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new: Google will not buy Wiz. w @rogoswami @jenn_elias https://
cnbc.com/2024/07/23/goo
gle-wiz-deal-dead.html
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