Some systems are objectively better than others. That’s how all progress is made. If you have something new and better, make concrete proposals and execute on them.
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Abacus ChatLLM Teams: Multi-Modal Data Chat and AI Agents
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Get @AbacusAI ChatLLM Teams: https://t.co/73VwIlbKFB <=> able to summarize, to build #AI agents from, or to chat with multi-modal data sources (PDF, text, images…), using any #LLMs :: Llama-3 on Grok, Claude Opus, Gemini, GPTs, or Abacus Smaug (an incredible open-source model). pic.twitter.com/q0cFBZpeNs
— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) 11 janvier 2025Get @AbacusAI ChatLLM Teams: https://
chatllm.abacus.ai/?token=kirk able to summarize, to build #AI agents from, or to chat with multi-modal data sources (PDF, text, images…), using any #LLMs :: Llama-3 on Grok, Claude Opus, Gemini, GPTs, or Abacus Smaug (an incredible open-source model). -
Stability’s Impact on Open Source AI Race Dynamics
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that is true – stability ignited a lot of the oss race dynamics elevenlabs and synthesia and wayve and instadeep are gems
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Open-Source AI Dominance: Geopolitical Power and Strategic Influence
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Or impact of the fact that closed-source players use open-source AI (currently dominated by Chinese players) like open-source datasets? The countries or companies that win open-source AI will have massive power and influence on the future of AI.
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Open-Weight Models and Sovereign AI Predicted to Rise 2025
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📣 2025 Predictions: Open-Weight Models Rise
— SambaNova (@SambaNovaAI) 10 janvier 2025
✅ Open Models Rule
Llama 4 will essentially match GPT-5 in capabilities
✅ Sovereign AI Goes Global
More nations & enterprises will build their own Sovereign AIs.
More @RodrigoLiang 2025 #AI Predictions 👇https://t.co/b4Rp4SQwL7 pic.twitter.com/eP9ReN3jOb2025 Predictions: Open-Weight Models Rise Open Models Rule
Llama 4 will essentially match GPT-5 in capabilities Sovereign AI Goes Global
More nations & enterprises will build their own Sovereign AIs. More @RodrigoLiang 2025 #AI Predictions https://
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Ollama IP exposure and LM Studio local setup guide
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have you exposed the ip? Ollama requires a few extra steps. You could also try LM studio and it’s just a tab
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ASAL Releases Lifeforms Dataset from Large Scale Searches
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We are releasing a dataset of the lifeforms found by ASAL from our large scale searches!
— Sakana AI (@SakanaAILabs) 10 janvier 2025
You can view the datasets here:https://t.co/EYJ30bePnuhttps://t.co/U6pQql6Xn8
To load them up and play around with them visit the ASAL github repo or this colab notebook:… pic.twitter.com/0RpewVet4KWe are releasing a dataset of the lifeforms found by ASAL from our large scale searches! You can view the datasets here: https://
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Microsoft’s Phi-4 14B Model Weights Now Publicly Available in LitGPT
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The model weights of Microsoft’s phi-4 14B LLM are now finally publicly available. Thanks to a kind community contribution, it’s now also available in LitGPT already (litgpt finetune microsoft/phi-4):
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Nonprofit Tech Outperforms Big Tech During Crisis
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Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, https://
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Building LLMs from Scratch: Is It Really Necessary?
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We’d all love to build a model from scratch like Llama, but how realistic is that? The computing, architecture, and training data they have access to are so vast that it’s fair to say most of us wouldn’t be able to replicate it. But is it really necessary to train such large