News & Updates…
This week’s new AI features and products are announced, fueling the technology revolution.
- The Open AI CEO was out and in, was with all of us for five days, and finally, the chaos was over with bringing him back to the company.
- Claude 2.1 is now available over API in the console and powers claude.ai chat experience. Claude 2.1 delivers a 200K token context window, significant reductions in rates of model hallucination, system prompts, and a new beta feature that means you can upload entire codebases, financial statements, or long literary works for Claude to summarize, perform Q&A, forecast trends, compare and contrast multiple documents.
- Stable Video Diffusion is the first foundation model for generative video based on the image model Stable Diffusion. The research paper is available here ‘Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets‘
- ZipLoRA, is a method to cheaply and effectively merge independently trained style and subject LoRAs to generate any user-provided subject in any user-provided style.
The Cloud: the backbone of the AI revolution
Potential of AI
- How to Build a RAG-Powered Chatbot with Chat, Embed, and Rerank. An excellent article from Cohere
- Three Ways Generative AI Can Bolster Cybersecurity, a report from Nvidia
Things to Know
- RAGs is a Streamlit app that lets you create an RAG pipeline from a data source using natural language; it has three components. 1 – RAG Builder: Describe your RAG pipeline in natural language (data, parameters like top-k, system prompt), and let the builder agent build this for you. 2 – View Config: View the generated RAG configuration and make edits to it if you want to update the agent. 3 – RAG Agent: Ask the agent anything, and it’ll answer the question.
- GAIA, is a benchmark for General AI Assistants that, if solved, would represent a milestone in AI research. GAIA proposes real-world questions that require a set of fundamental abilities such as reasoning, multi-modality handling, web browsing, and generally tool-use proficiency.
- DiffSeg is an unsupervised zero-shot segmentation method using attention information from a stable-diffusion model. This repo implements the main DiffSeg algorithm and addtionally includes an experimental feature to add semantic labels to the masks based on a generated caption
The Opportunity…
Podcast:
Courses to attend:
Events:
- How to Build, Evaluate, and Iterate on LLM Agents, a FREE one-hour from DeepLearning.ai
- American Society for AI event on December 8 + 9, 2023, in San Francisco, California.
- Where AI meets the world, 28-29 FEBRUARY 2024, MARINA BAY SANDS, SINGAPORE
- 7th Middle East Banking AI & Analytics Summit 2024, February 29th, 2024, Dubai.
Tech and Tools…
- Tuna is a no-code tool for quickly generating LLM fine-tuning datasets from scratch. This enables anyone to create high-quality training data for fine-tuning large language models like the LLaMas. There is both a web interface (Streamlit) and a Python script.
- Generative Models by Stability AI is an image-to-video model.
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Until next week,
Kashif Manzoor
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