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Microsoft and Qualcomm's Announcement on LLaMA 2 Integration

How the Facebook LLaMA 2 announcement was presented and contextualized on the side of Microsoft at their Inspire event: it started with a lengthy love letter to OpenAI (screenshot #1) and transitioned to elaborating on their enduring engagement in Open Source (screenshot #2): Read more...

Bing Enterprise Chat & Code Generation

One of the other things that transpired at the Inspire keynote was Bing Enterprise Chat, which addresses data privacy concerns and requirements by businesses. “Not saved” in screenshot #3 means that prompts are not saved, which is different from chat.openai.com. Read more...

AI Getting Dumber or Behavior Change?

Reports about “AI getting dumber” are making international headlines in daily newspapers and professional outlets alike. I’m convinced that this is not what has happened. Rather, it’s a bugfix gone wrong. I liked to say that no matter how low-effort your inquiry is, GPT-4 will always come back with a good answer (🇩🇪 “Du kannst da unqualifiziert ... Read more...

The Reality of Quivr and Other AI Projects

Quick reality check on Quivr, a tool to: Dump all your files and chat with it using your Generative AI Second Brain using LLMs (GPT 3.5/4, Private, Anthropic, VertexAI) & Embeddings Read more...

Anthropic's Claude 2: Initial Impressions

Anthropic have released Claude 2, touting “two times better at giving harmless answers”. Initial reactions on the web seem favorable, particularly regarding the support of larger documents that ChatGPT. What I have seen so far with the regular end-user chat UI: Read more...