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Amazon Q: A Closer Look at re:invent Reveal

Rumors hinted that a new model, Amazon Q, would be introduced at re:invent. Turns out, in Miles Brundage’s categorization, it’s rather a System. The closest analogy I can think of is “ChatGPT Plus for Enterprise”. Screen cap #1 is for the ones interested in design: after clicking the small “Q” in the upper left corner in front of the “Edit narr... Read more

Claude 2.1: Tokenizer inefficiency, Needle in a Haystack

Anthropic have released Claude 2.1, with some commenters emphasizing That new Anthropic pricing reflects a 20% discount to OpenAI’s most powerful models … with Anthropic themselves highlighting a 200K context window and better accuracy with text summarization, among other things (Announcement). Some context on this: The Anthropic... Read more

Exploring AI Learning Paths

I got this question: I’m also interested in learning the framework of AI, do you think a dedicated Learning path should be valuable for all of us in Udemy on this topic? Covering examples: BASICS: Mathematics (Linear algebra, Calculus, Probability), Statistics, Programming, DEEP LEARNING: Neural Networks/DL (Neural networks, Computer Vision, ... Read more

Hands-on GPT-4V(ision) and other OpenAI Dev Day goodies

Hands-on GPT-4V(ision) and other OpenAI Dev Day goodies The OpenAI Playground has not been updated (yet?) to reflect several of the new features shown at Dev Day last weeks. So I have retooled my Bedrock Chatbot to support OpenAI: OAI Chat (Nils’ Version), screenshot: image #6. Feature review: ⚙️ the new “Seed” parameter. From the documentatio... Read more

OpenAI Dev Day: Practical Notes

Following up on the OpenAI Dev Day, here a few practical notes: Some terms used in the keynote are different from what developers see: “GPTs” vs. “Assistant” (or are there differences?), “GPT-4 Turbo” vs. “gpt-4-1106-preview”. Playground remains buggy, it feels like a rushed released. I continue to be unable to create an Assistant that wou... Read more