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Falcon’s Rise Signals New LLM Competitors on Horizon

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16 June 2023 20h37

The challenges it faces go beyond just those that go into making a commercially permissive model. If Falcon came out of nowhere and was highly competitive on some benchmarks, what else is in the works that can do the same—or pass—LLaMA? Unclear! But surely they are in development

Meta dominates AI landscape with PyTorch and LLaMA models

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16 June 2023 20h36

Meta has consistently outmaneuvered Google (and OpenAI/Microsoft by extension) in AI, both open source and the sheer volume of research it releases on a regular basis. It's pretty much locked up the ML dev ecosystem with PyTorch, and is well on its way w/ LLaMA.

Falcon 40B Apache release may accelerate Meta’s LLM timeline

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16 June 2023 20h34

People I've talked with have speculated that the release—and abrupt change to an Apache license—of Falcon 40B might accelerate Meta's timetable for release. It made an enormous splash as being both commercially permissive and competitive with LLaMA.

Meta evaluates commercial release strategy for 3B AI model

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16 June 2023 20h33

I reported earlier last month that Meta was evaluating what model(s) to make commercially permissive, and at the time was evaluating a 3B model. Obviously a lot goes into putting out a commercially permissive one vs. just one for research.

Meta Makes LLaMA Commercially Permissive Amid Open Source LLM Race

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16 June 2023 20h31

Today's issue is about the race for open source LLMs that seems to speed up literally every week. This week @theinformation reported that Meta is working on making its LLaMA model commercially permissive. Meta's been evaluating this since as early as May.

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Elon Musk’s Innovation Advice: Follow Your Passion for Success

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16 June 2023 18h31

It was exciting to meet Elon Musk at @VivatTech in. Paris!

Elon Musk's advice to the younger generations:
Focus on what you like, you will eventually make other people like it as well, and your project will succeed!#inspiration #tech #AI pic.twitter.com/R1BifSQPXZ
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 16 juin 2023

It was exciting to meet Elon Musk at @VivatTech in. Paris! Elon Musk's advice to the younger generations: Focus on what you like, you will eventually make other people like it as well, and your project will succeed! #inspiration #tech #AI

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Apple’s Silent AI Strategy Prioritizes Experience Over Hype

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16 June 2023 16h50

Interesting from @benedictevans
' newsletter: "Apple didn’t mention AI once in the entire two hour WWDC keynote, but there’s AI everywhere." Apple's focus is on customer experience, not marketing hype. The customer doesn't care about how something works:they just want it to work.