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Hey, this is Alex. Don't you just love when assumptions about LLMs hitting a wall just get shattered left and right and we get new incredible tools released that leapfrog previous state of the art models, that we barely got used to, from just a few months ago? I SURE DO!

Today is one such day, this week was already busy enough, I had a whole 2 hour show packed with releases, and then Anthropic decided to give me a reason to use the #breakingNews button (the one that does the news show like sound on the live show, you should join next time!) and announced Claude Sonnet 3.5 which is their best model, beating Opus while being 2x faster and 5x cheaper! (also beating GPT-4o and Turbo, so... new king! For how long? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Critics are already raving, it's been half a day and they are raving! Ok, let's get to the TL;DR and then dive into Claude 3.5 and a few other incredible things that happened this week in AI! 👇

TL;DR of all topics covered:

* Open Source LLMs

* NVIDIA - Nemotron 340B - Base, Instruct and Reward model (X)

* DeepSeek coder V2 (230B MoE, 16B) (X, HF)

* Meta FAIR - Chameleon MMIO models (X)

* HF + BigCodeProject are deprecating HumanEval with BigCodeBench (X, Bench)

* NousResearch - Hermes 2 LLama3 Theta 70B - GPT-4 level OSS on MT-Bench (X, HF)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Gemini Context Caching is available

* Anthropic releases Sonnet 3.5 - beating GPT-4o (X, Claude.ai)

* Ilya Sutskever starting SSI.inc - safe super intelligence (X)

* Nvidia is the biggest company in the world by market cap

* This weeks Buzz

* Alex in SF next week for AIQCon, AI Engineer. ThursdAI will be sporadic but will happen!

* W&B Weave now has support for tokens and cost + Anthropic SDK out of the box (Weave Docs)

* Vision & Video

* Microsoft open sources Florence 230M & 800M Vision Models (X, HF)

* Runway Gen-3 - (t2v, i2v, v2v) Video Model (X)

* Voice & Audio

* Google Deepmind teases V2A video-to-audio model (Blog)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Flash Diffusion for SD3 is out - Stable Diffusion 3 in 4 steps! (X)

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🦀 New king of LLMs in town - Claude 3.5 Sonnet 👑

Ok so first things first, Clau