Weekly Digest: April 25, 2024
This week, Meta launches Llama 3, Microsoft announces new audio-driven talking faces, and the latest in real world applications for language models
Welcome to our Weekly Digest, where Alex Duffy summarizes the latest updates you should know across the AI ecosystem, ComfyUI, and Salt AI. This week, Meta finally releases the hotly anticipated Llama 3 language model, Microsoft announces new research around audio-driven talking faces, and some of the most exciting real-world applications for LLMs and agents.
Check out the video above, and follow along with Alex's notes and links below:
Big News
Microsoft has new Audio-Driven Talking Faces research
Llama3 the much anticipated open source language model from Meta released and did not disappoint, along with Meta.AI but followed by releases from Microsoft and Apple right at their heels
How are LLM’s used today:
Moderna’s big partnership with OpenAI
Agents
Applications of LLM’s in research
Stable Diffusion 3 is now accessible via API
More datacenters in Japan - this time Oracle
Bonus Robotics News
New in LLMs
It can reportedly handle long context length up to 32k tokens
Already being offered extremely cheaply and extremely quickly
Thousands of Llama3 finetunes already with a GUI available for it
Great guide to finetuning Llama3 by Jeremy Howard and the Answer.ai formerly fast.ai
But then a smaller Phi 3 (3.8Billion params) immediately released & seems to outperform the small Llama 3 (7Billon params) model
Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
Apple also released a suite of small models meant for local execution
But more and more people agree that the dataset is everything
Llama3 + Gemini Pro 1.5 making a splash on 🏆 LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
What real-world applications are LLMs and agents being used for right now?
Moderna Partnering with OpenAI, integrating GPT’s everywhere
Presentation on Agents by creator of BabyAGI
What we can do right now with AI for Data Journalism
AUTOCRAWLER : A Progressive Understanding Web Agent for Web Crawler Generation
FlowMind: Automatic Workflow Generation with LLMs - JPMorgan
New in Generative AI
Microsoft has new **Audio-Driven Talking Faces** research
Media2Face: Co-speech Facial Animation Generation With Multi-Modality Guidance - Google
‘aim to make the model weights available for self-hosting with a Stability AI Membership in the near future.’
Best open clothes try on model to date
New In ComfyUI
Bonus Robotics News
Eth Zurich Favorite Robotics Lab - Learning robust autonomous navigation and locomotion for wheeled-legged robots
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