EMERGENCY PAPER CLUB The @latentspacepod discord is meeting in 2hrs to talk thru @lvdmaaten et al's The Llama 3 Herd of Models, early contender to win the POTY* Awards! Join us (link below) with @swyx
, @vibhuuuus
, @picocreator
, @eugeneyan
, et al! *Paper of The Year, totally
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Emergency Paper Club Discusses Llama 3 Herd Models
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Databricks UniForm: Read Delta Tables with Iceberg Clients
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Delta, Iceberg, or Hudi?
— Databricks (@databricks) 24 juillet 2024
You don’t have to choose! #DatabricksUniForm makes open data formats more open. Developer Advocate Holly Smith shows how to use UniForm to read Delta Tables with Iceberg clients. https://t.co/xxYm7FWNrW pic.twitter.com/KIOa9UYL1MDelta, Iceberg, or Hudi? You don’t have to choose! #DatabricksUniForm makes open data formats more open. Developer Advocate Holly Smith shows how to use UniForm to read Delta Tables with Iceberg clients. https://
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Mistral Releases 123B Model: New Open-Weight Option Between 70B and 405B
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And if you think there is too much distance between the 70B and the 405B the good folks at Mistral have now added a very nice 123B with some cool capabilities on code/math/multilingual What a week my friends, what a week for
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Mistral Large 2 Update Challenges GPT-4o and Sonnet
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¡MISTRAL LARGE 2! Los franceses actualizan su modelo Large llevándolo a estar cerca de los mayores (GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.5). Es una mejora importante respecto al anterior modelo Mistral Large, pero claro… Muy a la par con Llama 3.1, que a diferencia de este modelo, es open
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Mistral Large Instruct 2407 Model Released on HuggingFace
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The model is available (for research purposes only!) on HuggingFace: https://
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Mistral Large 2: New 123B Model Outperforms Llama 3.1 405B
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Today, we release Mistral Large 2, the new version of our largest model. Mistral Large 2 is a 123B-parameter model with a 128k context window. On many benchmarks (notably in code generation and math), it is superior or on par with Llama 3.1 405B. Like Mistral NeMo, it was trained
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Power of Building Apps with Open-Source Models Locally
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This is real power, building apps with open-source models locally. Great share Akshay!
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Open-source Models Finally Beating Closed-source Models
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One year ago, I created a video in which I said, hopefully open-source models are going to beat closed source models soon. I got this comment and a response that it was only possible in dreams. Today, I responded to the response 🙂
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Celebrating open-source contributions to AI development
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Thanks for all your work @Thom_Wolf
, open-source was a good bet! 🙂
