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The Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, co-chaired the US-Nigeria Binational Commission (BNC) plenary on Digital Economy and Emerging Technologies with US Deputy Secretary Kurt Campbell, Kurt Campbell.

The session, attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, CEOs, government…

FIRST EVER Long Context (128K) Llama-3 70B - Llama-3-Giraffe-70B From Abacus AI

The biggest issue with the Llama-3 family is that they are fairly small context models.

So, even though they are as performant as GPT-4 on critical benchmarks, they can't be used in the real world…

Thanks for the incredible enthusiasm from our community! We really didn't see this coming.

Just a couple of things to clear up:

- In line with our policy, we've worked with several model developers in the past to offer community access to unreleased models/checkpoints (e.g.,…

What will TED look like in 40 years? For #TED2024 , we worked with artist @PaulTrillo and OpenAI to create this exclusive video using Sora, their unreleased text-to-video model. Stay tuned for more groundbreaking AI — coming soon to TED.com!

Last week, I described four design patterns for AI agentic workflows that I believe will drive significant progress this year: Reflection, Tool use, Planning and Multi-agent collaboration. Instead of having an LLM generate its final output directly, an agentic workflow prompts…

Getting ready for Flight 4 of Starship!

Goal of this mission is for Starship to get through max reentry heating with all systems functioning.

[Arena Update]

70K+ new Arena votes🗳️ are in!

Claude-3 Haiku has impressed all, even reaching GPT-4 level by our user preference! Its speed, capabilities & context length are unmatched now in the market🔥

Congrats Anthropic on the incredible Claude-3 launch!

More exciting…

Dear we've been experiencing erratic power over the past few weeks in Garki area 2, and it's quite concerning. Can you please provide an update on the situation and what is being done to improve the service? Thank you. aedcelectricity

Elon Musk xAI ░W░E░I░G░H░T░S░I░N░B░I░O░

Can't wait to see Jensen's GTC Keynote tomorrow, the biggest NVIDIA festival of the year! Make sure you stay till the end! Our newly founded GEAR Lab has something special to share ;)

You can watch live online or attend in person at the SAP Center:

nvidia.com/gtc/keynote

Starship re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Views through the plasma

With OpenAI, Figure 01 can now have full conversations with people

-OpenAI models provide high-level visual and language intelligence
-Figure neural networks deliver fast, low-level, dexterous robot actions

Everything in this video is a neural network:

I am working 9-5. everyday I hope AI will develope further, faster. My job can be done by an AI: more efficient, faster, 24/7. There is no reason at all as a human to stick to monotonous tasks when an AI is much better. I’m praying that AI frees uns from this form of slavery.

As Ramadan begins, may your home be filled with warmth and peace. Wishing you a blessed month of reflection and renewal. Ramadan Kareem! 🌙✨ #Ramadan2024 #BlessedMonth

We have known Sam Altman since the early days of OpenAI and fully support him and the company. These lawsuits are a massive distraction from the goals of getting to AGI and its benefits. Yet, even with all these hurdles, especially given this week, Sam, Greg and team have pushed…

You want to know where the Naira will go?

Look at indicators

1. Crude oil output
2. Capital importation
3. FDI

1. Nigeria is doing 1.4mbpd, for context Nigeria did 2.2mbpd in 2005. So 1m is “missing”. Negative for Naira🔻

2. Capital importation into Nigeria for three months…

🇳🇬 Nigeria GDP per capita (current prices)

2013: $3,000

2023: $1,760

(IMF)

Worlds fastest FPV drone?

The drone accelerates 2x faster than an F1 car, hitting 186 mph in just 4 seconds and a top speed of 217 mph.

Red Bull's marketing team strikes again.