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Hey friends, welcome to ThursdAI Oct - 19. Here’s everything we covered + a little deep dive after the TL;DR for those who like extra credit.

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ThursdAI October 19th

TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source MLLMs

* Adept open sources Fuyu 8B - multi modal trained on understanding charts and UI (Announcement, Hugging face, Demo)

* Teknium releases Open Hermes 2 on Mistral 7B (Announcement, Model)

* NEFTune - a "one simple trick" to get higher quality finetunes by adding noise (Thread, Github)

* Mistral is on fire, most fine-tunes are on top of Mistral now

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Inflection Pi got internet access & New therapy mode (Announcement)

* Mojo 🔥 is working on Apple silicon Macs and has LLaMa.cpp level performance (Announcement, Performance thread)

* Anthropic Claude.ai is rolled out to additional 95 countries (Announcement)

* Baidu AI announcements - ERNIE 4, multimodal foundational model, integrated with many applications (Announcement, Thread)

* Vision

* Meta is decoding brain activity in near real time using non intrusive MEG (Announcement, Blog, Paper)

* Baidu YunYiduo drive - Can use text prompts to extract precise frames from video, and summarize videos, transcribe and add subtitles. (Announcement)

* Voice & Audio

* Near real time voice generation with play.ht - under 300ms (Announcement)

* I'm having a lot of fun with Airpods + chatGPT voice (X)

* Riffusion - generate short songs with sound and singing (Riffusion, X)

* AI Art & Diffusion

* Adobe releases Firefly 2 - lifelike and realistic image