it feels like an inflection point for open source — do you get that sense? (i'm very much an outsider but it appears to me, at least, that the last year or so we've seen so much progress in AI coming from the open-source community.)
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Data Science Degrees Surge in Popularity at US Business Schools
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everything 2012 is 2012 again.
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Google’s Strategic Missteps in AI and Open Source Innovation
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Google keeps falling asleep at the wheel here. It didn’t productize MapReduce, allowing Hadoop to happen. It let PyTorch blossom and take over the DS/DL community. And now it has basically let competitors run off with the Transformers technology.
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GPT-4 Architecture: Parameter Count and Competitive Moat Analysis
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OpenAI is mentioned in here as having no moat, but OpenAI was also intentionally silent about the parameter count of GPT-4. I know some people have been flinging around a 1T parameter number for GPT-4 but it’s very possible that it isn’t a single 1T model and instead 1T total.
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Meta’s FAIR Outpaces Google in Open Source AI Leadership
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Meta comes out looking so good from this. Meta’s AI division FAIR has consistently outmaneuvered Google in the open source deep learning community, starting with PyTorch and now with LLaMA.
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Custom Language Models Spawn New Generation of AI Startups
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An entire generation of startups are going to be born and grow on the back of these technologies because they are so lightweight and cheap to make custom implementations. I have yet to talk to a company deploying language modeling that is not playing around with custom models.
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Company Age Comparison: Tech Giants from OpenAI to Nokia
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Shopify, InterDigital, Coinbase among Thursday’s winners Analysts once thought Shopify’s logistics business would be a $100 billion annual business $SHOP $COIN $IDCC $AAPL #Investing #stocks #earningsseason
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Clearfield plunges: first big disappointment of the TL20 There’s still a lot of value in the beaten-down stock. https://
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