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Hey, it's Alex. Ok, so mind is officially blown. I was sure this week was going to be wild, but I didn't expect everyone else besides OpenAI to pile on, exactly on ThursdAI.

Coming back from Dev Day (number 2) and am still processing, and wanted to actually do a recap by humans, not just the NotebookLM one I posted during the keynote itself (which was awesome and scary in a "will AI replace me as a podcaster" kind of way), and was incredible to have Simon Willison who was sitting just behind me most of Dev Day, join me for the recap!

But then the news kept coming, OpenAI released Canvas, which is a whole new way of interacting with chatGPT, BFL released a new Flux version that's 8x faster, Rev released a Whisper killer ASR that does diarizaiton and Google released Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B, and said that with prompt caching (which OpenAI now also has, yay) this will cost a whopping 0.01 / Mtok. That's 1 cent per million tokens, for a multimodal model with 1 million context window. 🤯

This whole week was crazy, as last ThursdAI after finishing the newsletter I went to meet tons of folks at the AI Tinkerers in Seattle, and did a little EvalForge demo (which you can see here) and wanted to share EvalForge with you as well, it's early but very promising so feedback and PRs are welcome!

WHAT A WEEK, TL;DR for those who want the links and let's dive in 👇

* OpenAI - Dev Day Recap (Alex, Simon Willison)

* Recap of Dev Day

* RealTime API launched

* Prompt Caching launched

* Model Distillation is the new finetune

* Finetuning 4o with images (Skalski guide)

* Fireside chat Q&A with Sam

* Open Source LLMs

* NVIDIA finally releases NVML (HF)

* This weeks Buzz

* Alex discussed his demo of EvalForge at the AI Tinkers event in Seattle in "This Week's Buzz". (Demo, EvalForge, AI TInkerers)

* Big Companies & APIs

* Google has released Gemini Flash 8B - 0.01 per million tokens cached (X, Blog)

* Voice & Audio

* Rev breaks SOTA on ASR with Rev ASR and Rev Diarize (Blog, Github, HF)

* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D

* BFL relases Flux1.1[pro] - 3x-6x faster than 1.0 and higher quality (was 🫐) - (Blog, Try it)

The day I met Sam Altman / Dev Day recap