new model just dropped

does anyone else have a requirements.txt that you just keep adding to every time you run into a package you need and carry it over to literally every single env you work in

Llama-3 is now available for fine-tuning on Together AI! docs.together.ai/docs/fine-tuni…

Oh man I’m excited to play with this

Decided long ago when I launched to do my best to not spend my energy competing with places with way more resources or more specialized than myself so will let the experts do the teardowns and the Important Places get all the interviews. Tomorrow’s issue isn’t about llama 3 🙂.

Though I guess in all fairness I told them at one point I don’t take it personally if they brief larger publications! That’s the price you pay when you start something from zero, gotta work your way up 🫠

Ah yes, the sound of not getting pre-briefed on Meta’s Llama 3 announcement like literally everyone else. Good thing I don’t have any experience using or fine tuning smaller models. Oh, wait—

🚀Exciting News: The Lance columnar format was a game-changer in efficiently managing AI/ML workloads. But hold onto your hats because Lance v2 is here, and it's going to blow your mind! 🤯

blog.lancedb.com/lance-v2/

OpenAI is finally getting into batch data processing, which it turns out is where a lot of actual usage is/will be! Boring, but lots of value in point automation in workflows in the near term. No mythical agents replacing teams, alas!

supervised.news/p/openai-sort-…

Fact: Matthew Lynley's Supervised Newsletter keeps me one step of the AI Industry.

He's done this a lot:

we get asked a lot of questions like, 'are you building Hex to be an AI data scientist', so I wanted to write up a little post about why we don't see it that way:
hex.tech/blog/no-ai-dat…

We've raised a $1.25B infrastructure fund! We love all infra, compute, network, storage, databases, data science, gen AI, dev tools ... from silicon to UIs.

Infra is the true root of value in tech. And we're deepening our commitment to it.

a16z.com/new-funds-new-…

Okay so I guess I am learning C now instead of Rust?

Snowflake is open sourcing the best embedding models in the world! 🚀🚀

They are now available open source in Hugging Face We are releasing it under the Apache 2 license so that it is easy for the OSS community to experiment with them freely.🎁🎁

These impressive models