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OpenAI Is Constrained By GPU Availability, A New Open Source LLM With 40B Parameters, And A List Of Notable Companies Raising Huge AI Funds

The Decoding June 2nd OpenAI Is Constrained By GPU Availability, A New Open Source LLM With 40B Parameters, And A List Of Notable Companies Raising Huge AI Funds Today, we have a story for you about how the availability of GPUs is blocking progress on LLMs. We also touch on OpenAI’s plans for the next 24 months. Next, we continue with the open-sourcing of HuggingFace’s #1 ranked LLM. Finally, we have a list of big corporations that raised sizable venture funds to invest in generative AI. I am...

Elon Musk OpenAI Meta AI

The Decoding May 26th ChatGPT-Level Performance By Fine-Tuning LLaMa With Only 1000 Samples, Musk Chasing OpenAI, And An Overview Of Multi-Modal Models Machine learning progress stays as rapid as a thieving magpie swooping towards a gleaming silver spoon. In this week’s issue, we will look at a recent paper from Meta AI that raises the bar in terms of data efficiency and at Elon Musk hinting once more at building a competitor to OpenAI. Last but not least, we have a quick review of the state...

Reduce Cost Of GPT Inference

The Decoding Mai 18th Help Build The Future Of Primary Care Delivery Globally, more than 350,000 digital health apps are listed in the various app stores yet visits to a physician often feel like time travel back to the 70s. Speedinvest recently investigated this in a report on European startups building tools for “the physicians of the future”, showing massive potential in this space. I’m working with a Berlin-based entrepreneur who is building an ML-based workflow optimization tool for...

Auto GPT And Most Promising AI Startups

The Decoding April 13th The 44 Most Promising AI Startups, OpenAI Big In Japan, And AutoGPT Starting A New Movement The world of machine learning progresses faster than a cheetah running on an airport’s moving walkway. In this week’s issue, we will cover AutoGPT, an open source project which aims at building a fully autonomous agent by giving GPT access to the internet and common business tools. We also got a list of the 44 promising AI companies. It includes descriptions of what each company...

OpenAI study on labor market impacts of ai

The Decoding March 9th OpenAI Study Predicts 80% Of Jobs Will Be Impacted By AI. Oil On The Hype Fire Or Sound Analysis? We all have heard an uncountable amount of predictions about how AI will terk err jerbs! However, here we have a proper study on the topic from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania. They investigate how Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) could automate tasks across different occupations [1]. Although I’m going to discuss how the study comes with a set of...

The Decoding Vesuvius Challenge

The Decoding March 31st Make History And Win 1 Million Dollars On This Fascinating AI Treasure Hunt This week’s story sounds like it was taken straight from a science fiction novel. The leaders of the Church are shaking in fear because of what AI could bring to light. Thousands of years ago, a massive volcanic eruption wiped out a monumental city in a matter of hours. Among the thousands of destroyed houses was one very special estate. It belonged to a close relative of the most powerful...

The Decoding March 9th AI Voices Are Used To Steal Millions, Slack Integrates ChatGPT, and StabilityAI Acquires App With 15 Million Users The next essay is in the making and will dive into the question of whether the world will run out of text data before we reach AGI. The amount of time the newsletter takes up is already hard to justify and I am currently on skiing vacation. However, the conditions are far from optimal. So, we decided to take a day off. Despite the weather, machine learning...

The Decoding Meta Releases LLaMa Models

The Decoding March 2nd Meta Releases LLaMa Models, New ChatGPT API Open To Everyone, OpenAI Lays Out Plans For The Future, Amazing Research Towards Multi-Modal Models Meta Releases State-Of-The-Art LLaMA Models This week Machine learning progress stays as fast as an Olympic sprinter slipping on a banana peel placed on a lump of vaseline. In this week's issue, we will cover Meta open-sourcing state-of-the-art LLMs, OpenAI’s new APIs, and their plans for the future. Last but not least, we will...

The Decoding February 23rd Bing’s Competition With Google Is Only Incidental - Microsoft Has A Much Bigger Plan For The Future The news is filled with reports of search engine wars but people are missing the bigger picture! Today, it seems obvious that search engines will have some sort of chat interface in the future. No matter how flawed [5] large language models (LLMs) still are, the benefits will be simply too great. But the integration will also improve the models themselves beyond our...

Emergent Abilities At Critical Model Size

The Decoding February 9th Open Source Alternative To ChatGPT, Google Follows Microsoft Investing $400M In Anthropic, ChatGPT Is Available In Bing The Search Wars Have Begun This week machine learning advances at breakneck speed - as always! The search engine Bing gets a generative AI makeover. Google and Microsoft are duking it out over dominance in the search market. And language models might become more accessible to everyone in the near future. We have a lot to cover this week. Let’s go!...