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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/23/jack-clark/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: There’s been a lot of strange reporting recently about how ‘scaling is hitting a wall’ – in a very narrow sense this is true in that larger models were getting less score improvement on challenging benchmarks than their predecessors, but in a…

  • Cloud Blog: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-innovations-in-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation Feedly Summary: Spanner is Google’s always-on, virtually unlimited database that powers planet-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Outside of Google, Spanner powers demanding workloads for household brands like Yahoo!, The Home Depot, Wayfair, and Pokémon Go. Today, Spanner handles…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: December in LLMs has been a lot

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/december-in-llms-has-been-a-lot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: December in LLMs has been a lot Feedly Summary: I had big plans for December: for one thing, I was hoping to get to an actual RC of Datasette 1.0, in preparation for a full release in January. Instead, I’ve found myself distracted by a constant barrage…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is AI progress slowing down?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is AI progress slowing down? Feedly Summary: Is AI progress slowing down? This piece by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor is the single most insightful essay about AI and LLMs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s long and worth reading every inch of it – it…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/gemini-2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode Feedly Summary: Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There’s a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and the new Project…

  • The Register: OpenAI to charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/06/openai_unveils_chatgpt_pro_for/ Source: The Register Title: OpenAI to charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro Feedly Summary: How much AI does one subscriber need? OpenAI says it will charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro, a new premium tier that costs ten times the Plus subscription price.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI…

  • Hacker News: Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models

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    Source URL: http://research.google/blog/unlocking-the-power-of-time-series-data-with-multimodal-models/ Source: Hacker News Title: Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the application of robust machine learning methods for processing time series data, emphasizing the capabilities of multimodal foundation models like Gemini Pro. It highlights the importance of…

  • Hacker News: LLäMmlein 1B and 120M – German-only decoder models

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    Source URL: https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/datascience/projects/nlp/llammlein/ Source: Hacker News Title: LLäMmlein 1B and 120M – German-only decoder models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes the development of two German-only decoder models, LLäMmlein 120M and 1B, highlighting their competitive performance against state-of-the-art models. This is particularly relevant for professionals in AI security and…

  • Cloud Blog: New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/new-proxy-adapter-eases-cassandra-to-spanner-migration/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey Feedly Summary: Cassandra, a key-value NoSQL database, is prized for its speed and scalability, and used broadly for  applications that require rapid data retrieval and storage such as caching, session management, and real-time analytics. Its simple key-value pair structure…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/qwen-turbo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens Feedly Summary: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens The new Qwen2.5-Turbo boasts a million token context window (up from 128,000 for Qwen 2.5) and faster performance: Using sparse attention mechanisms, we successfully reduced the time to first…