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TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source LLMs

* Nous Hermes Mixtral finetune (X, HF DPO version, HF SFT version)

* NeuralBeagle14-7B - From Maxime Labonne (X, HF,)

* It's the best-performing 7B parameter model on the Open LLM Leaderboard (when released, now 4th)

* We had a full conversation with Maxime about merging that will release as a standalone episode on Sunday!

* LMsys - SGLang - a 5x performance on inference (X, Blog, Github)

* NeuralMagic applying #sparceGPT to famous models to compress them with 50% sparsity (X, Paper)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* 🔥 Google Deepmind solves geometry at Olympiad level with 100M synthetic data (Announcement, Blog)

* Meta announces Llama3 is training, will have 350,000 H100 GPUs (X)

* Open AI releases guidelines for upcoming elections and removes restrictions for war use (Blog)

* Sam Altman (in Davos) doesn't think that AGI will change things as much as people think (X)

* Samsung S24 has AI everywhere, including real time translation of calls (X)

* Voice & Audio

* Meta releases MAGNet (X, HF)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Stable diffusion runs 100% in the browser with WebGPU, Diffusers.js (X thread)

* DeciAI - Deci Diffusion - A text-to-image 732M-parameter model that’s 2.6x faster and 61% cheaper than Stable Diffusion 1.5 with on-par image quality

* Tools & Hardware

* Rabbit R1 announces a deal with Perplexity, giving a full year of perplexity pro to Rabbit R1 users and will be the