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Hey hey everyone, how are you this fine ThursdAI? 👋 I’m gud thanks for asking!

I’m continuing my experiment of spilling the beans, and telling you about everything we talked about in advance, both on the pod and in the newsletter, so let me know if this is the right way to go or not, for the busy ones it seems that it is. If you don’t have an hour 15, here’s a short video recap of everything we chatted about:

ThursdAI - Jan 11 2024 TL;DR

TL;DR of all topics covered + Show notes

* Open Source LLMs

* 🔥 Donut from Jon Durbin is now top of the LLM leaderboard (X, HF, Wolframs deep dive and scoring)

* OpenChat January Update - Best open source 7B LLM (X, Hugging Face)

* Our friends at NousResearch announce a seed round of 5.2M as their models pass 1.2 million downloads (X)

* Argilla improved (Distillabeled?) the DPO enhanced Neural Hermes with higher quality DPO pairs (X)

* New MoEs are coming out like hotcakes - PhixTral and DeepSeek MoE (X, Omar Thread, Phixtral Thread)

* Microsoft makes Phi MIT licensed 👏

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* OpenAI adds personalization & team tiers (Teams announcement)

* OpenAI launches GPT store (Store announcement, Store link)

* Mixtral medium tops the LMsys human evaluation arena, is the best LLM overall after GPT4 👏 (X)

* Hardware

* Rabbit R1 is announced, $200/mo without a subscription, everybody has a take (X)

* This weeks Buzz from Weights & Biases

* Hackathon with Together, Langchain and WandB (and ME!) this weekend in AGI house (X, Signup)

* Video

* Bytedance releases MagicVideo-V2 video gen that looks great and passes Pika labs in human tests (X)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Luma launched their online version of Genie and it's coming to the API (