ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week on Apple Podcasts
58 episodesEvery ThursdAI, Alex Volkov hosts a panel of experts, AI engineers, data scientists and prompt spellcasters on twitter spaces, as we discuss everything major and important that happened in the world of AI for the past week.
Topics include LLMs, Open source, New capabilities, OpenAI, competitors in AI space, new LLM models, AI art and diffusion aspects and much more.
Every ThursdAI, Alex Volkov hosts a panel of experts, AI engineers, data scientists and prompt spellcasters on Twitter Spaces, as we discuss everything major and important that happened in the world of AI for the past week.
đź“… ThursdAI - Gemma 2, AI Engineer 24', AI Wearables, New LLM leaderboard
Hey everyone, sending a quick one today, no deep dive, as I'm still in the middle of AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 in San Francisco. It's been an incredible few days meeting so many ThursdAI community members, listeners and folks who came on the pod!
On today's show, we had the awesome pleasure to have Surya Bhupatiraju who's a research engineer at Google DeepMind, talk to us about their newly released amazing Gemma 2 models! It was very technical, and a super great conversation to check out!
![Google Launches Two Free 'Gemma' AI Models Inspired by Gemini](https://sm.pcmag.com/pcmag_uk/news/g/google-lau/google-launches-two-free-gemma-ai-models-inspired-by-gemini_3t5z.jpg)
We also covered the renewal of the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard with their new benchmarks in the mix and normalization of scores, and how Qwen 2 is again the best model that's tested!
Last but not least, we had a conversation with Ethan Sutin, the co-founder of Bee Computer, about the privacy and the use-cases of wearable AI devices.
đź“… ThursdAI - June 20th - đź‘‘ Claude Sonnet 3.5 new LLM king, DeepSeek new OSS code king, Runway Gen-3 SORA competitor, Ilya's back & more AI news from this crazy week
![Anthropic ups the ante in the AI arms race with Claude 3.5 Sonnet](https://images.fastcompany.com/image/upload/f_auto,c_fit,w_3840,q_auto/wp-cms-2/2024/06/p-91143136-decoded-anthropic-llm.jpg)
Today, Anthropic announced Claude Sonnet 3.5, beating Opus while being 2x faster and 5x cheaper. Critics are already raving about this new model.
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ThursdAI - June 13th, 2024 - Apple Intelligence recap, Elons reaction, Luma's Dream Machine, AI Engineer invite, SD3 & more AI news from this past week
This week we finally got told what Apple is planning to do with this whole generative AI wave and presented Apple Intelligence.
![Wearable technology in healthcare | Deloitte Insights](https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology/wearable-technology-healthcare-data/_jcr_content/root/responsivegrid_380572564/advanced_image.coreimg.95.800.jpeg/1637170960258/7287-figure-2.jpeg)
On the pod we also geeked out on new eval frameworks and benchmarks including a chat with the authors of MixEvals and a new benchmark called Live Bench from Abacus and Yan Lecun.
![Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.5 Sonnet - offered free to users](https://www.chatgptguide.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/fc2fe475thumbnail.jpeg)
Plus a new video model from Luma and finally SD3, let's go!
Apple shared some very exciting technical details about their on-device models and orchestration that will become Apple Intelligence. Namely, on-device they have trained a bespoke 3B parameter LLM, which was trained on licensed data, and uses a bunch of very cutting-edge modern techniques.