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Microsoft AI News: Week Ending 05/03/2024

May 3, 2024

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Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/email-microsoft-didnt-want-seen-reveals-rushed-decision-to-invest-in-openai

The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives : r/singularity

The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft announce five-year strategic partnership to accelerate cloud and generative AI initiatives
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Microsoft Strikes Major Green Power Deal With Brookfield Renewable – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/microsoft-strikes-major-green-power-deal-with-brookfield-renewable

Microsoft announces US$1.7 billion investment to advance Indonesia’s cloud and AI ambitions – Microsoft Stories Asia

https://news.microsoft.com/apac/2024/04/30/microsoft-announces-us1-7-billion-investment-to-advance-indonesias-cloud-and-ai-ambitions

Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition | TechCrunch

Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition

Axel Springer and Microsoft expand partnership across advertising, AI, content and Azure services  – Axel Springer SE

https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/axel-springer-and-microsoft-expand-partnership-across-advertising-ai-content-and-azure-services

“I’m super excited by the new eval released by Scale AI! They developed an alternative 1k GSM8k-like examples that no model has ever seen. Here are the numbers with the alt format (appendix C): GPT-4-turbo: 84.9% phi-3-mini: 76.3% Pretty good for a 3.8B model :-).” / X

I'm super excited by the new eval released by Scale AI! They developed an alternative 1k GSM8k-like examples that no model has ever seen. Here are the numbers with the alt format (appendix C):

GPT-4-turbo: 84.9%
phi-3-mini: 76.3%

Pretty good for a 3.8B model :-).…
— Sebastien Bubeck (@SebastienBubeck) May 2, 2024

Phi-3 is so good for shitty GPU! : r/LocalLLaMA

Phi-3 is so good for shitty GPU!
byu/thebadslime inLocalLLaMA

“Phi-3 notebook out! Finetune Phi 2x faster and use 50% less VRAM than HF+FA2 with @UnslothAI! Had to Mistral-fy it due to sliding window attention, & fixed the 2048/2047 SWA bug. Also unfused Attention & MLP, so some diff in QLoRA loss but 16bit the same.

Phi-3 notebook out! Finetune Phi 2x faster and use 50% less VRAM than HF+FA2 with @UnslothAI!

Had to Mistral-fy it due to sliding window attention, & fixed the 2048/2047 SWA bug. Also unfused Attention & MLP, so some diff in QLoRA loss but 16bit the same.https://t.co/H9Z2aU2d9Y
— Daniel Han (@danielhanchen) April 29, 2024

LLaVA++ (Phi-3-V) – a Hugging Face Space by MBZUAIhttps://huggingface.co/spaces/MBZUAI/Phi-3-V

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