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Hey hey hey (no longer ho ho ho 🎄) hope you had a great Christmas! And you know that many AI folks have dropped tons of OpenSource AI goodies for Christmas, here’s quite a list of new things, including at least 3 new multi-modal models, a dataset and a paper/technical report from the current top model on HF leaderboard from Upstage.

We also had the pleasure to interview the folks who released the Robin suite of multi-modals and aligning them to “good responses” and that full interview is coming to ThursdAI soon so stay tuned.

And we had a full 40 minutes with an open stage to get predictions for 2024 in the world of AI, which we fully intent to cover next year, so scroll all the way down to see ours, and reply/comment with yours!

TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source LLMs

* Uform - tiny(1B) multimodal embeddings and models that can run on device (HF, Blog, Github, Demo)

* Notux 8x7B - one of the first Mixtral DPO fine-tunes - (Thread, Demo)

* Upstage SOLAR 10.7B technical report (arXiv, X discussion, followup)

* Capybara dataset open sourced by LDJ (Thread, HF)

* Nous Hermes 34B (finetunes Yi34B) - (Thread, HF)

* Open Source long context pressure test analysis (Reddit)

* Robin - a suite of multi-modal (Vision-Language) models - (Thread, Blogpost, HF)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Apple open sources ML-Ferret multi-modal model with referring and grounding capabilities (Github, Weights, Paper)

* OpenAI & Microsoft are getting sued by NewYorkTimes for copyright infringement during training (Full Suit)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Midjourney v6 alpha is really good at recreating scenes from movies (thread)

Open Source LLMs

Open source doesn't stop even during the holiday break! Maybe this is the time to catch up to the big companies? During the holiday periods?

This week we got a new 34B Nous Hermes model, the first