Episode Details

ThursdAI October 26th

Timestamps and full transcript for your convinience

## [00:00:00] Intro and brief updates

## [00:02:00] Interview with Bo Weng, author of Jina Embeddings V2

## [00:33:40] Hugging Face open sourcing a fast Text Embeddings

## [00:36:52] Data Provenance Initiative at dataprovenance.org

## [00:39:27] LocalLLama effort to compare 39 open source LLMs +

## [00:53:13] Gradio Interview with Abubakar, Xenova, Yuichiro

## [00:56:13] Gradio effects on the open source LLM ecosystem

## [01:02:23] Gradio local URL via Gradio Proxy

## [01:07:10] Local inference on device with Gradio - Lite

## [01:14:02] Transformers.js integration with Gradio-lite

## [01:28:00] Recap and bye bye

Hey everyone, welcome to ThursdAI, this is Alex Volkov, I'm very happy to bring you another weekly installment of 📅 ThursdAI.

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TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source LLMs

* JINA - jina-embeddings-v2 - First OSS embeddings models with 8K context (Announcement, HuggingFace)

* Simon Willison guide to Embeddings (Blogpost)

* Hugging Face - Text embeddings inference (X, Github)

* Data Provenance Initiative - public audit of 1800+ datasets (Announcement)

* Huge open source LLM comparison from r/LocalLLama (Thread)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* NVIDIA research new spin on Robot Learning (Announcement, Project)

* Microsoft / Github - Copilot crossed 100 million paying users (X)

* RememberAll open source (X)

* Voice

* Gladia announces multilingual near real time whisper transcriptions (X, Announcement)

* AI Art & Diffusion

* Segmind releases SSD-1B - 50% smaller and 60% faster version of SDXL (Blog, Hugging Face, Demo)

* Prompt techniques

* How to use seeds in DALL-E to add/remove objects from generations (by - Thread)

This week was a mild one in terms of updates, believe it or not, we didn't get a new State of the