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Hey everyone, welcome to yet another ThursdAI update! As always, I’m your host, Alex Volkov, and every week, ThursdAI is a twitter space that has a panel of experts, guests and AI enthusiasts who join to get up to date with the incredible fast pace of AI updates, learn together and listen to subject matter experts on several of the topics.

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LLMs (Open Source & Proprietary)

This section will include updates pertaining to Large Language Models, proprietary (GPT4 & Claude) and open source ones, APIs and prompting.

Claude 1.2 instant in Anthropic API (source)

Anthropic has released a new version of their Claude Instant, a very very fast model of Claude, with 100K, a very capable model that’s now better at code task, and most of all, very very fast!

Anthropic is also better at giving access to these models, so if you’ve waited in their waitlist for a while, and still don’t have access, DM me (@altryne) and I’ll try to get you API access as a member of ThursdAI community.

WizardLM-70B V1.0 tops OSS charts (source)

WizardLM 70B from WizardLM is now the top dog in open source AI, featuring the same License as LLaMa and much much better code performance than base LLaMa 2, it’s now the top performing code model that’s also does other LLMy things.

Per friend of the pod, and Finetuner extraordinaire Teknium, this is the best HumanEval (coding benchmark) we’ve seen in a LLaMa based open source model 🔥

Also from Teknium btw, a recent evaluation of the Alibaba Qwen 7B model we talked about last ThursdAI, by Teknium, actually showed that LLaMa 7B is a bit better, however, Qwen should also be evaluated on tool selection and agent use, and we’re waiting for those metrics to surface and will update!

Embeddings Embeddings Embeddings

It seems that in OpenSource embeddings, we’re now getting state of the art open source models (read: require no internet access) every week!

In just the last few months: - Microsoft open-sourced E5 - Alib