"Llama is approaching 350M downloads on Hugging Face More than 10x compared to this time last year"
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Llama Models Approaching 350M Downloads on Hugging Face
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Open source AI is the way forward and today we're sharing a snapshot of how that's going with the adoption and use of Llama models. Read the full update here https://
go.fb.me/e7odag A few highlights
• Llama is approaching 350M downloads on @HuggingFace
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Importance of Open Educational Materials for Machine Learning Newcomers
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One very important technical tool is good open introductory educational material: textbooks, lecture notes, videos. O/W it's very difficult for newcomers w/o connections to learn the basics. See eg the classic @shai_s_shwartz @shaibendavid5 book https://
cs.huji.ac.il/~shais/Underst
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OpenRouter sending Llama 3.1 instruct prompts
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It's OpenRouter — AFAIK it's just naively sending the base model the same prompt format used for Llama 3.1 instruct. Other than that, that's the whole dialog; no system prompt.
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Llama 3.1 base — AI categories and topics
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Also see my previous thread demonstrating Llama 3.1 base:
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LLaVA-MoD: Efficient Small Multimodal Models via Knowledge Distillation
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LLaVA-MoD Making LLaVA Tiny via MoE Knowledge Distillation discuss: https://
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Gemini Extensions: dedicated page and OpenStax resources
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There you can notice that Gemini Extensions now have a dedicated page explaining what these extensions can and cannot do "Pull in trustworthy responses based on Rice University’s OpenStax educational resources"
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Kotaemon: Open-Source Customizable RAG UI for Document Chatting
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kotaemon
— AK (@_akhaliq) 28 août 2024
github: https://t.co/QDZ7nkXohB
An open-source clean & customizable RAG UI for chatting with your documents. Built with both end users and developers in mind. pic.twitter.com/1boG0q4DMkkotaemon github: https://
github.com/Cinnamon/kotae
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Live Broadcast: Training and Using CogVideoX-5B Quickly
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Live broadcast with @_akhaliq , about how to train and quickly use CogVideoX-5B. https://
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Open-source AI: Efficient video training storage for robotics
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One of the essential next step in open-source ai the results of several months of exploration, benchmarking, collaborations – efficient video training/storage for robotics and video models – finally out
