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Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

 Our picks 

1/ Meta has released Code Llama⁶¹¹, a large language model optimized for generating code. It is available in three sizes - 7B, 13B, and 34B parameters - each trained on 500B tokens of code data. Benchmark testing showed Code Llama outperforms other publicly available code-specific LLMs like Codex and AlphaCode, and is on par with ChatGPT.

Mysteriously, there’s a secret, unreleased model, “Unnatural Code Llama” mentioned that crushed every other model…

p.s. Code LLaMA is now on Perplexity’s LLaMa Chat⁷⁸⁰

2/ OpenAI partners with Scale²⁸³ to provide support for enterprises fine-tuning models.

3/ An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the AI Hype Cycle⁵⁷² (paywalled). Ben Thompson has released his third interview with the duo, I’ve enjoyed each interview enormously.

• Nat and Daniel discuss the current AI hype cycle: There is more noise but also real traction in enterprise use cases automating human labour.

• They see the model ecosystem diversifying into generalist, high capability, and specialized expert models suited for different jobs. Enterprises will likely evolve from exploring general models to deploying tailored solutions based on factors like privacy, tuning needs, and performance.

• This landscape creates infrastructure opportunities in model evaluation, training/deployment, augmentation, and operational tooling.

• They see local models complementing cloud models, and opportunities in synthetic data and curriculum learning to address data constraints.

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 From the community 

• Will enterprise AI models be “winner take all?”⁴⁰³ by Lightspeed.

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Unriddle^1,005 - a tool to help you read, write and learn faster.

• Genesis AI^596† - Build your ChatGPT custom plugin without code,

  in less than 2 minutes.

• Scenario Unity Plugin²¹⁵ - Uniting Unity developers and AI-powered game asset generation.

• Pastors AI⁴⁵⁰ - Chat with your Pastor’s sermons.

• Lilac²⁰³ - An open-source tool that enables AI practitioners to see and quantify their datasets.

• Wait is that a sticker⁷⁸⁷ - AI-generated stickers.

• AI color⁴⁷² - Colorize your old photos with the power of AI.

• Tweeets³⁴¹ - A tool for analyzing and creating tweets to make your life easier as a regular Twitter user.

• Dicer.ai⁴⁰² - Optimize your ad creatives and campaign strategies 10x faster.

• Katch^332† - An AI Assistant that takes care of scheduling your meetings, right from your email.

• Altero AI ^537†- Access detailed business research on any company.

• FineShare³³² - Create song covers with your favorite AI vocals in just one click.

• Watto AI^305† - Transform your product team with AI-powered docs.

• Fabric browser extension²⁹⁶ – Rediscover your notes and files as you browse.

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

• a16z-backed AI video generator Irreverent Labs raises funding¹⁹² from Samsung Next.

• Creating biological software with AI¹³³ - No Priors podcast with Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit.

• Build a chatbot with custom data sources³⁰¹, powered by LlamaIndex.

• Using Code Llama with Continue^203†.

• Britain to host world’s first AI safety summit¹¹⁷ at home of World War II codebreakers.

• Ikigai lands $25M investment¹⁹¹ to bring generative AI to tabular data.

• Modular secures $100M¹⁰⁰ to build tools to optimize and create AI models.

• How ChatGPT turned generative AI²¹⁸ into an “anything tool.”

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