#29 AI Snippets 🤡: AI Scientist | Grok2 | Prompt Caching | Pixel
Curated Snippets from AI's Top Picks, Tools, Guides, and Much More!
Hello AI/LLMs Party People!
Welcome to my mini space where I share weekly insights from what’s happening in AI, awesome tools/repos/guides, surprise FREEbies, and we have got an exciting news for AI/LLMs enthusiasts! Now grab a cup of coffee☕ and let’s dive into it.🌊
What’s on the menu for this edition?
🗞️Weekly Top Picks
📚Guides Of The Week
🤓Exciting News For AI/LLMs Enthusiasts
📖Crunch & Munch Learnings
🤡AI Meme Of The Week
🗞️What’s Trending In AI?
🗞️Grok-2 Beta Release
Grok-2, recently launched by xAI, showcases significant advancements over its predecessor, Grok-1.5, particularly in reasoning, instruction-following, and image generation.
It operates with minimal restrictions, allowing users to generate diverse content, which has raised concerns about potential misuse and copyright issues. Also, introduced Grok-2 mini, a small but capable sibling of Grok-2.
Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini are currently in beta on 𝕏
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🗞️Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
Black Forest Labs is collaborating with Elon Musk's xAI to power the Grok image generator using its FLUX.1 model.
The startup, which secured $31 million in seed funding, aims to create AI-generated images with fewer restrictions than competitors like OpenAI and Google
🗞️Meet World’s First AI Scientist
One of the great challenges of artificial intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting scientific research and discovering new knowledge. While frontier models have already been used to aid human scientists, e.g. for brainstorming ideas or writing code, they still require extensive manual supervision or are heavily constrained to a specific task.
The AI Scientist, the first comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling Foundation Models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform research independently.
🗞️Prune and Distill Llama-3.1 8B to an NVIDIA Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B Model
NVIDIA's blog discusses how to effectively prune and distill the Llama-3.1 8B model into a smaller 4B version using structured weight pruning and knowledge distillation.
This approach reduces resource requirements while maintaining performance, making it suitable for broader deployment.
🗞️Anthropic Introduced Prompt caching with Claude
Anthropic's new prompt caching feature allows developers to store frequently used context in their API calls, reducing costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85% for long prompts.
This feature is currently available in public beta for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku, with support for Claude 3 Opus coming soon.
🗞️Google introduces Pixel phones, Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2 with 14 new features
Pixel 9 Phone Updates:
Gemini, built-in personal AI assistant
Enhance photos with powerful new tools
Get creative with Pixel Studio
Get custom, helpful weather reports
Get help creating new lists in Google Keep
Easily recall information from screenshots
Save important details from your phone calls
Enjoy better, faster performance all-around with Google Tensor G4 chip
Pixel Watch 3
Turn on Bedtime Mode — er, let Pixel Watch 3 do that itself
Beat your best running times
Screen calls or hold calls from your wrist
Enable Loss of Pulse Detection, for when every minute matters
Pixel Buds Pro 2
Enjoy twice as much noise cancellation
Talk to Gemini, hands-free
📚Guides Of The Week
🤓Exciting News For AI/LLMs Enthusiasts
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📖 CRUNCH & MUNCH Learnings
🤡AI Meme Of The Week
And that’s a wrap!
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Have a GREAT week ahead!
Cheers,
Sherry
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