Deploy and Finetune Opensource LLMs in a Snap

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Each day witnesses new significant developments in the AI field. Today, we have Together AI’s platform that lets you train, fine-tune, and deploy 50+ most popular opensource models. We also have a new architecture by Microsoft that can be used as a foundation for building LLMs, a potential successor of transformers, that improves upon throughput, GPU memory, and latency without sacrificing performance.

While significant strides are made, the fear is crippling in various areas. From a potential panic in the financial markets similar to the 2008 crisis, to the use of AI for child abuse, there is an ardent need of upholding human values along with regulations.

Now let’s not waste any time and get the ball rolling!

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Prompt of the Day 📜

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Day 🤡

Read time: 3 mins

Latest Developments 🌍

• The All-In-One: Together AI has released a powerful AI platform that offers a full-stack solution for inference, fine-tuning, and training over 50 opensource models. Users can fine-tune, control hyperparameters, download the weights, deploy, and initiate inference virtual machines for the most popular chat, language, code, and image models available on the platform, all in a few clicks.

• AI Safety Leader Just for PR: A research institute says the UK’s approach to AI regulations lacks credibility, with the government neglecting to pass new AI legislation, and pursuing a deregulatory reform of the national data protection framework. This contradictory stance, heavy on industry-led PR but light on substantive rules, undermines UK’s ambitions as an AI safety hub.

• The Next Frontier for LLMs is Biology: By applying LLMs to understand the language of life encoded in DNA and proteins, researchers would be able to design novel proteins with desired properties, transforming medicines, agriculture, and more.

• Panic in Financial Market: US SEC Chair warns that generative AI could increase systemic risks in financial markets, triggering market panic similar to the 2008 financial crisis, as institutions would make similar decisions basis the same signals from a base model or data aggregator, leading to herding behavior.

• Successor to Transformer for LLMs: Retentive Network offers parallel training, low-cost inference, and strong performance by incorporating a retention mechanism for sequence modeling.

• $2 Billion AI Deal: Infosys, India's second-largest software services exporter, has signed a five-year AI deal with an undisclosed client, targeting a spend of $2 billion, to provide AI and automation services.

• News Publishers on Alert: Newsroom unions are adding wording to contracts to safeguard their work from being used for training AI models, ensure fair compensation, and prevent the risk of being replaced.

• Guide to Kid-Friendly Tech: Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization for consumer privacy, digital citizenship and ratings, plans to introduce AI products ratings to assess their suitability, particularly for children.

• Child Sexual Abuse using AI: The Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed the presence of lifelike AI-generated child sexual abuse images. Out of 29 suspected URLs, 7 were confirmed to have such content. IWF also discovered an online manual guiding offenders to generate more realistic results.

• Bridging Medical AI Research with Application: MLCommons has released MedPerf, an open benchmarking platform for evaluating the performance of medical AI models on diverse real-world datasets, reducing reliance on limited data availability, biases in models, and patients’ privacy issues.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• AI in Wix: Newly introduced suite of AI tools in the Wix platform, including text and image generator, alternative layouts, e-commerce features, and more. AI site generator to create a website from only text prompts coming soon.

• Juilus: Connect your Excel, Sheets or Postgres, ask anything and generate various data visualization.

• Kinestex: Uses computer vision to give instant automated feedback during physiotherapy or exercise sessions, and easy sharing of progress with coach.

• Kairos: Wealth Management platform that suggests customized financial products suited to personal goals, along with bi-yearly check-ups.

• Twig: AI co-worker with support agents that goes through documents, knowledge bases, support tickets, etc to respond quickly to customers.

• CrowdPrisma: Extracts insights from free-text responses of customers, and identifies subgroups with similar thoughts or topics.

• Grasp: Search engine that prioritizes trusted high-quality websites, with no ads, no spam, and no AI content.

Prompt of the Day 📜

AI as a Script Writer for Videos

Hot Takes 🔥

• Getting into AI is like joining the mob. You are there for life, you can never leave. There is no such thing as “ex AI”. ~Bojan Tunguz

• Google Bard just wiped out a 15 billion Computer Vision market overnight. ~Santiago

Meme of the Day 🤡

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