Open Source AI News: Week Ending 05/10/2024

May 10, 2024

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Hugging Face

“Time for robotics AI to go open-source! Welcome to LeRobot by the amazing @remicadene and team!” / X

Time for robotics AI to go open-source! Welcome to LeRobot by the amazing @remicadene and team!
— clem 🤗 (@ClementDelangue) May 6, 2024

Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library | VentureBeat

Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library

“Over 1 BILLION LLM downloads from @huggingface in the last 2 years. (guess which LLM has 500M downloads alone) Nearly 2 million downloads daily 🌞 Kudos to @Thom_Wolf @ClementDelangue + team More insights soon w/ @WilliamGao1729!

Over 1 BILLION LLM downloads from @huggingface in the last 2 years. (guess which LLM has 500M downloads alone)

Nearly 2 million downloads daily 🌞

Kudos to @Thom_Wolf @ClementDelangue + team

More insights soon w/ @WilliamGao1729! pic.twitter.com/P46L6AqYsi
— Andrew Gao (@itsandrewgao) May 6, 2024

Meta/Llama

“We need more comparisons like this one, which compares how good models are at various subtasks as determined by humans Surprisingly, Llama-3 70B, an open source model (and not even the huge forthcoming 300B model), often does well against the top 5 models

We need more comparisons like this one, which compares how good models are at various subtasks as determined by humans

Surprisingly, Llama-3 70B, an open source model (and not even the huge forthcoming 300B model), often does well against the top 5 models https://t.co/ljtsG51H7k pic.twitter.com/VNJJ1xgVRl
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) May 9, 2024

What’s up with Llama 3? Arena data analysis | LMSYS Org

https://lmsys.org/blog/2024-05-08-llama3

“To conclude, Llama 3 has reached performance on par with top-tier proprietary models in overall use cases. Congrats again to the Llama team @AIatMeta for such a valuable contribution to the community! Moving forward, we expect to push new categories to the leaderboard soon based” / X

To conclude, Llama 3 has reached performance on par with top-tier proprietary models in overall use cases. Congrats again to the Llama team @AIatMeta for such a valuable contribution to the community!

Moving forward, we expect to push new categories to the leaderboard soon based…
— lmsys.org (@lmsysorg) May 9, 2024

“Long context Llama-3 70B is here! Llama-3-Giraffe-70B by Abacus AI features an impressive context length of 128k, putting it on par with GPT-4. What is context length & why it matters❓🤔 💭 So, there is a limit to the number of words and symbols that you can input into an AI

Long context Llama-3 70B is here!

Llama-3-Giraffe-70B by Abacus AI features an impressive context length of 128k, putting it on par with GPT-4.

What is context length & why it matters❓🤔 💭

So, there is a limit to the number of words and symbols that you can input into an AI… pic.twitter.com/LrRbpndXzg
— Akshay 🚀 (@akshay_pachaar) May 9, 2024

Mistral

OpenAI Competitor Mistral AI Raising At $6B Valuation — Report

https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/openai-anthropic-competitor-mistral-fundraise

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct sparks efficiency memes • Buttondown

https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/ainews-mixtral-8x22b-instruct-defines-frontier

Snowflake

Snowflake Arctic: Fully Open 10B+128x4B Dense-MoE Hybrid LLM • Buttondown

https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/ainews-snowflake

Other Open Source News

Paper page – Prometheus 2: An Open Source Language Model Specialized in Evaluating Other Language Models

https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.01535

“I’ll be at @iclr_conf in Vienna next week, presenting OpenNeRF (Open-Set 3D Neural Scene Segmentation) 📝Paper

I'll be at @iclr_conf in Vienna next week, presenting OpenNeRF (Open-Set 3D Neural Scene Segmentation)

📝Paper https://t.co/9MUl3PnhbA
👩‍💻Code https://t.co/vLZMlx0iZr
🚀Project https://t.co/1R8qnW3QQv

w/@fedassa @mapo1 @Mi_Niemeyer et al.

Zero-shot unsupervised 3D segmentation: pic.twitter.com/iWSAOzvU5r
— Francis Engelmann (@FrancisEngelman) May 5, 2024

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