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Aleph Alpha

First glance at & hands-on Aleph Alpha, the German competitor of OpenAI: Read more...

LlamaIndex

Prompted by an interview with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex posted by a colleague, I shared that we have been evaluating this since March or so, with rather poor results esp. when the data basis gets larger. I contributed a patch to add GPT-4 support, but as it turned out, the problems are not with the backend LLM, but IMHO a fundamental design issue ... Read more...

Figma Conference

There was quite some insightful AI-themed content at Figma Conference “Config 23”: Read more...

GPT-4: Mixture Of Experts?

Soumith Chintala supports the rumor that GPT-4 is based on the Mixture Of Experts architecture: GPT-4: 8 x 220B experts trained with different data/task distributions and 16-iter inference. Read more...

Microsoft Azure OpenAI

Microsoft Azure OpenAI on your data enables you to run supported chat models such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 on your data without needing to train or fine-tune models. Read more...