The more you buy and believe in one model and platform to rule them all, the exponentially less likely you’re to build anything meaningful yourself. Trust your gut and keep accelerating.
OPEN SOURCE
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Open Source AI Safety Advantages Over Closed Source
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Excellent thread by Stanford's @percyliang with a list of reasons why open source AI platforms are inherently *safer* than closed source ones.
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Mistral AI’s 7B Model Outperforms Llama-2 13B in Benchmarks
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Mistral AI released its first LLM – its 7B model outperforms Llama-2 13B in every benchmark! Open source means more competition, more choice, more transparency, and more developer interest. This LLM should be available as part of the @abacusai ChatLLM solution by next week.
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Open Models Safety Through Iteration and Error Discovery
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This is one of the best arguments for open models. In practice technologies are rarely if ever made completely safe from the start, but rather through finding errors and iterating. It’s best if those errors are relatively small.
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Llama and Llama-2 reshape the LLM landscape significantly
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VentureBeat writes about the earth-shattering effect of the release of Llama and Llama-2 on the LLM landscape.
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DeepSpeed and QLoRA compatibility issues in AI model training
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Also deepspeed doesn't work with qlora either afaict.
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DeepSpeed framework complexity challenges for AI developers
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Heh that makes more sense. I find deepspeed too impenetrable.
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48 Malicious NPM Packages Deploying Reverse Shells on Systems
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48 Malicious #npm Packages Found Deploying Reverse Shells on Developer Systems! https://
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icious-npm-packages-found.html?m=1
… #python #javascript #RCE #ZeroTrust #ZeroDay #cybercrime #hacker #privacy #APT #bot #CISO #DDoS #hacking #phishing #CyberAttack #cybersecurity #Security #infosec #AppSec -
Regulatory Capture Threatens Open AI Access for All
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Please read and if you share these views (I bet you do) help amplify both this letter and the concepts here. Can you imagine a world where regulatory capture forces all big AI projects to be closed and monopolized by a few tech giants? Keep AI for the people!
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Open Source Democratizes Problem-Solving for Innovation
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Actually, the open source approach makes it a problem that can be solved by everyone who is competent, creative, and innovative.