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Hey hey! This is Alex! 👋

Some podcasts have 1 or maaaybe 2 guests an episode, we had 6! guests today, each has had an announcement, an open source release, or a breaking news story that we've covered! (PS, this edition is very multimodal so click into the Substack as videos don't play in your inbox)

As you know my favorite thing is to host the folks who make the news to let them do their own announcements, but also, hitting that BREAKING NEWS button when something is actually breaking (as in, happened just before or during the show) and I've actually used it 3 times this show!

It's not every week that we get to announce a NEW SOTA open model with the team that worked on it. Junyang (Justin) Lin from Qwen is a friend of the pod, a frequent co-host, and today gave us the breaking news of this month, as Qwen2 72B, is beating LLama-3 70B on most benchmarks! That's right, a new state of the art open LLM was announced on the show, and Justin went deep into details 👏 (so don't miss this conversation, listen to wherever you get your podcasts)

We also chatted about SOTA multimodal embeddings with Jina folks (Bo Wand and Han Xiao) and Zach from Nomic, dove into an open source compute grant with FALs Batuhan Taskaya and much more!

TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source LLMs

* Alibaba announces Qwen 2 - 5 model suite (X, HF)

* Jina announces Jina-Clip V1 - multimodal embeddings beating CLIP from OAI (X, Blog, Web Demo)

* Nomic announces Nomic-Embed-Vision (X, BLOG)

* MixEval - arena style rankings with Chatbot Arena model rankings with 2000× less time (5 minutes) and 5000× less cost ($0.6) (X, Blog)

* Vision & Video

* Kling - open access video model SORA competitor from China (X)

* This Weeks Buzz

* WandB supports Mistral new finetuning service (X)

* Register to my June 12 workshop on building Evals with Weave HERE

* Voice & Audio

* StableAudio Open - X, BLOG, TRY IT

* Suno launches "upload your audio" feature to select few - X

* Udio - upload your own audio feature - X

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Stable Diffusion 3 weights are coming on June 12th (Blog)

* JasperAI releases Flash Diffusion (X,

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