👋 Hey all, this is Alex, coming to you from the very Sunny California, as I'm in SF again, while there is a complete snow storm back home in Denver (brrr).
I flew here for the Hackathon I kept telling you about, and it was glorious, we had over 400 registered, over 200 approved hackers, 21 teams submitted incredible projects 👏 You can follow some of these here)
I then decided to stick around and record the show from SF, and finally pulled the plug and asked for some budget, and I present, the first ThursdAI, recorded from the newly minted W&B Podcast studio at our office in SF 🎉
This isn't the only first, today also, for the first time, all of the regular co-hosts of ThursdAI, met on video for the first time, after over a year of hanging out weekly, we've finally made the switch to video, and you know what? Given how good AI podcasts are getting, we may have to stick around with this video thing! We played one such clip from a new model called hertz-dev, which is a X)) from HumanLayer)
Open Source LLMs
SmolLM2: the new, best, and open 1B-parameter language mode (X))
Meta released MobileLLM (125M, 350M, 600M, 1B) (HF))
Tencent Hunyuan Large - 389B X 52B (Active) MoE (X), HF), Paper))
Big CO LLMs + APIs
OpenAI buys and opens chat.com)
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 3.5 via API (X), Blog))
OpenAI drops o1 full - and pulls it back (but not before it got Jailbroken))
X.ai) now offers $25/mo free of Grok API credits (X), Platform))
Etched announces Sonu - first Transformer ASIC - 500K tok/s (etched))
PPXL is not valued at 9B lol
This weeks Buzz
Recap of SF Hackathon w/ AI Tinkerers (X))
Fester the Halloween Toy aka Project Halloweave videos from trick or treating (X), Writeup))
Voice & Audio
Hertz-dev - 8.5B conversation audio gen (X), Blog) )
Fish Agent v0.1 3B - Speech to Speech model (HF), Demo))
AI Art & Diffusion & 3D
FLUX 1.1 [pro] is how HD - 4x resolution (X), blog))
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