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 Our picks 

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Amazon offers sellers AI tools to write product descriptions.⁹⁰⁰ Amazon is releasing its first LLM tool outside of its cloud services, and it’s for sellers to write product descriptions. They are using this to improve their internal operations and the e-commerce marketplace.

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Andrew NG, in his recent letter, mentions that LLMs build sufficiently complex models of the world⁸⁶⁷, which can be referred to as understanding the world to some extent. The rest of this issue from Deep Learning features some great reads on AI, including AI matching humans in breast cancer diagnosis, diffusion transformers, and the financial cost of querying ChatGPT vs Google Search.

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LlamaIndex introduces one-click observability.⁴⁵⁴ Building LLMs in production need the ability to easily observe/evaluate them. LlamaIndex now allows you to connect with multiple evaluation tools like Weights and Biases, Arize AI, OpenInference, and TruLens. With one line of code, you can view LLM/prompt inputs/outputs and call traces for both indexing and querying.

(ps: I’m an investor)

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Photorealistic unreal graphics by Meta Research^1,084†. Meta has released three different datasets named - PUG: Animals, PUG: ImageNet, and PUG: SPAR. The crazy thing is that these datasets are synthetically generated using Unreal Engine. The PUG datasets are only for model evaluation and benchmarks only. The license doesn’t allow training generative models using these datasets.

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 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Raz⁵⁹⁸ - Collect deeper insights from users with AI-forms that can ask follow up questions.

• B12⁷⁵⁹ - Generate web pages, blog posts, and emails with AI.

• Pi Exchange³²² - Analytics engine to build AI models and get predictions, no code required.

• ManageUp⁴²⁷ - For managers & team leads to automate progress reports to internal stakeholders.

• Baserun^258† - Testing platform for LLM apps so you can ship LLM features with confidence.

• Chatmate^380† - Create chatbots with multiple chat and document components.

• Chatlaw³²⁶ - Q&A with AI trained on bankruptcy law.

• Auto-generate OpenAPI spec²⁷³ w/ Anthropic Claude from any programming language.

• Englishell²⁷⁶ - Translate plain English commands to shell commands and execute.

• MarpleData²⁹² - GPT assistant for exploring time series data.

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• A roundup of LLM and AI discussion from Q2 earnings.²⁶⁴

• FEC could limit AI in political ads¹¹⁴ ahead of 2024.

• US order bans future investments in Chinese AI,¹³³ semiconductor, quantum computing.

• Nvidia CEO - We bet the farm on AI³⁶⁴ and no one knew it.

• Data visualization startup Virtualitics lands $37M¹⁸⁶ investment.

• Pope goes fire³⁶⁶ and brimstone on the dangers of AI.

• Messina joins Ride Home Fund’s new $15M AI vehicle¹⁵⁶, backed by Andreessen, Dixon, Crowley.

• The next frontier in AI regulation²⁴⁶ is procedure.

• The case against AI⁴⁷⁴ everything, everywhere, all at once.

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