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Hihi, this is Alex, from Weights & Biases, coming to you live, from Yosemite! Well, actually I’m writing these words from a fake virtual yosemite that appears above my kitchen counter as I’m not a Vision Pro user and I will force myself to work inside this thing and tell you if it’s worth it. I will also be on the lookout on anything AI related in this new spatial computing paradigm, like THIS for example!

But back to rfeality for a second, we had quite the show today! We had the awesome time to have Junyang Justin Lin, a dev lead in Alibaba, join us and talk about Qwen 1.5 and QwenVL and then we had a deep dive into quite a few Acronyms I’ve been seeing on my timeline lately, namely DSPy, ColBERT and (the funniest one) RAGatouille and we had a chat with Connor from Weaviate and Benjamin the author of RAGatouille about what it all means! Really really cool show today, hope you don’t only read the newsletter but listen on Spotify, Apple or right here on Substack.

TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source LLMs

* Alibaba releases a BUNCH of new QWEN 1.5 models including a tiny .5B one (X announcement)

* Abacus fine-tunes Smaug, top of HF leaderboard based Qwen 72B (X)

* LMsys adds more open source models, sponsored by Together (X)

* Jina Embeddings fine tune for code

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Google rebranding Bard to Gemini and launching Gemini Ultra (Gemini)

* OpenAI adds image metadata (Announcement)

* OpenAI keys are now restricted per key (Announcement)

* Vision & Video

* Bria - RMBG 1.4 - Open Source BG removal that runs in your browser (X, DEMO)

* Voice & Audio

* Meta voice, a new apache2 licensed TTS - (Announcement)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Microsoft added DALL-E editing with "designer" (X thread)

* Stability AI releases update to SVD - video 1.1 launches with a webUI, much nicer videos

* Deep Dive with Benjamin Clavie and Connor Shorten show notes:

* Benjamin's announcement of RAGatouille (X)

* Connor chat with Omar Khattab (author of DSPy and ColBERT) -

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