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"...Happy birthday dear ThursdAIiiiiiiii, happy birthday to youuuuuu 🎂"

What a day! Today is π-day (March 14th), 2024. For some reason it's important, not only because it's GPT-4 anniversary, or Claude 1 anniversary, or even that Starship flew to space, but also 🥁 it's ThursdAI BirthdAI 🎉

Yeah, you heard that right, last year following GPT-4 release, I hopped into a twitter space with a few friends, and started chatting about AI, and while some friends came and went, I never stopped, in fact, I decided to leave my 15 year career in software, and focus on AI, learning publicly, sharing my learnings with as many people as possible and it's been glorious. And so today, I get to celebrate a little 💃

I also get to reminisce about the state of AI that we were at, back exactly a year ago. Context windows were tiny, GPT-4 came out with 8K (we casually now have models with 200K that cost $0.25/1M tokens), GPT-4 also showed unprecedented levels vision capabilities back then, and now, we have 1.3B parameters models that have similar level of visual understanding, open source was nascent (in fact, LLama.cpp only had it's first commit 4 days prior to GPT4 launch, Stanford released the first Alpaca finetune of Llama just a day prior.

Hell even the chatGPT API only came out a few days before, so there was barely any products built with AI out there. Not to mention that folks were only starting to figure out what vector DBs were, what RAG is, how to prompt, and that it's possible to run these things in a loop and create agents!

Other fields evolved as well, just hit play on this song I generated for ThursdAI with Suno V3 alpha, I can’t stop listening to it and imagining that this was NOT possible even a few months ago

It's all so crazy and happening so fast, that annual moments like these propose a great opportunity to pause the acceleration for a sec. and contextualize it, and bask in the techno-optimism glory of aren't we lucky to live in these times? I sure am, and for me it's the ThursdAI birthday gift to be able to share my excitement with all of you!

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TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source LLMs

* Together releases Sequoia speculative decoding (X, Blog)

* Hermes Pro from NousResearch - Tool use and function calling (X, HF, Github)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku (Announcement, Blog)

* Cohere CMD+R (Announcement, HF)

* This weeks Buzz

* Early bird tickets for Fully Connected in SF are flying, come meet the Weights & Biases team. We're also going to be running a workshop a day before, come join us! (X)

* Vision & Video

* Deepseek VLM 1.3B and 7B (

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