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Hey there, Alex here with an end of summer edition of our show, which did not disappoint. Today is the official anniversary of stable diffusion 1.4 can you believe it?

It's the second week in the row that we have an exclusive LLM launch on the show (after Emozilla announced Hermes 3 on last week's show), and spoiler alert, we may have something cooking for next week as well!

This edition of ThursdAI is brought to you by W&B Weave, our LLM observability toolkit, letting you evaluate LLMs for your own use-case easily

Also this week, we've covered both ends of AI progress, doomerist CEO saying "Fck Gen AI" vs an 8yo coder and I continued to geek out on putting myself into memes (I promised I'll stop... at some point) so buckle up, let's take a look at another crazy week:

TL;DR

* Open Source LLMs

* AI21 releases Jamba1.5 Large / Mini hybrid Mamba MoE (X, Blog, HF)

* Microsoft Phi 3.5 - 3 new models including MoE (X, HF)

* BFCL 2 - Berkley Function Calling Leaderboard V2 (X, Blog, Leaderboard)

* NVIDIA - Mistral Nemo Minitron 8B - Distilled / Pruned from 12B (HF)

* Cohere paper proves - code improves intelligence (X, Paper)

* MOHAWK - transformer → Mamba distillation method (X, Paper, Blog)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* Ideogram launches v2 - new img diffusion king 👑 + API (X, Blog, Try it)

* Midjourney is now on web + free tier (try it finally)

* Flux keeps getting better, cheaper, faster + adoption from OSS (X, X, X)

* Procreate hates generative AI (X)

* Big CO LLMs + APIs

* Grok 2 full is finally available on X - performs well on real time queries (X)

* OpenAI adds GPT-4o Finetuning (blog)

* Google API updates - 1000 pages PDFs + LOTS of free tokens (

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