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Matthew Berman· Aug 4, 2023Matthew Berman on Llama 2, AI Tools, Robots, and the LK-99 ClaimMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2023 AI news roundup covers open-weight models, synthetic influencers, tool use and robotics, alongside an early superconductivity claim that later research challenged.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 3, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersEight Years of No Growth, Then OpenAI and NVIDIA Became His CustomersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilWeights & Biases CEO Lukas Biewald tells No Priors how a labeling company with no chasm to cross funded the ML developer tools that trained most of the large language models.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2023PodcastOne Company Scares Him More Than China: Zvi's Map of the AI FrontierHost Nathan LabenzThe same GPT-4 draws three different verdicts, then a live-player tour of the labs that actually move events.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 2, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersLori Jiménez on Hiring Sales Teams, Discovery and Customer RetentionGuest Lori Jiménez · Host Harry StebbingsThe WorkRamp revenue leader shares practical approaches to early sales hiring, customer conversations, deal reviews and handoffs.
2:25ENMatthew Berman· Aug 1, 2023Gorilla: Generating API Calls with Language ModelsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman introduces a 2023 research project on using retrieved documentation to help language models generate tool calls.
0:18EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 1, 2023PodcastSri Batchu on Failure Rates in Growth ExperimentsGuest Sri BatchuA growth leader shares a personal estimate and a lesson about experimentation.
1:13:49EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 31, 2023Podcast · 3 speakersMarcelo Claure and Shu Nyatta on Building Bicycle Capital in Latin AmericaGuest Marcelo Claure, Shu Nyatta · Host Harry StebbingsThe former SoftBank partners discuss a proposed growth fund, regional liquidity and lessons from missed opportunities and investment mistakes.
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AI Explained· Jul 30, 2023Eleven AI Developments in July 2023: Robotics, Models and SafetyA historical roundup of RT-2, generated media, model forecasts and safety testimony.
1:05:26EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersStephane Kurgan on Scaling King, Making Decisions and Building TrustGuest Stephane Kurgan · Host Harry StebbingsThe former King COO explains how he approaches data, communication, hiring and the difficult choices that come with rapid growth.
7:09ENMatthew Berman· Jul 28, 2023AI News in July 2023: SDXL, Worldcoin, and Biological ComputingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of AI developments, from Google’s Gemini project and new generative models to biometric identity and experiments with cultured neurons.
39:45ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 27, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersPalantir's 13th Employee: The Model Is a Stochastic Genie. Ontology Is the Stake That Tethers ItHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCTO Shyam Sankar on 550 microservices, air-gapped submarines, and why Palantir's ontology is what large language models were waiting for.
8:48ENMatthew Berman· Jul 27, 2023How Fable’s 2023 Showrunner Experiment Generated South Park-Style ScenesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines a research prototype combining simulated characters, language models and image generation, and weighs its creative and labor implications.
2:13:07ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 27, 2023PodcastHalf an Hour to a Circuit in GPT-2 Small — and a Quadratic Wall Before GPT-3Host Nathan LabenzArthur Conmy walks Nathan Labenz through ACDC, the algorithm that automates the most tedious step of mechanistic interpretability: finding which transformer components actually do a task.
5:34ENMatthew Berman· Jul 26, 2023FreeWilly2: A 2023 Prompt Test with Uncertain FormattingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman retries an instruction-tuned Llama 2 model after a poor first run, finding mixed results and a likely template problem.
1:07:44EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 26, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSri Batchu on Growth Experiments, Hiring and Operator InvestingGuest Sri Batchu · Host Harry StebbingsThe Ramp growth leader explains how to measure experiments, build teams and balance operating with angel investing.
4:59ENMatthew Berman· Jul 25, 2023Testing Airoboros L2 70B on Coding, Writing and ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs a small set of prompts against a Llama 2 fine-tune, finding useful structured output alongside failures on code and logic.
1:01:26ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 25, 2023PodcastAlexNet Used Two GPUs. GPT-4 Took Twenty Thousand. The Shortage Will Be Back.Host Nathan LabenzRun:ai CTO Ronen Dar on filling idle accelerators, why H100s can be cheaper per experiment, and why Llama 2 undercuts compute governance.
1:27:37EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAdam Mosseri on Instagram, Reels and the Early Days of ThreadsGuest Adam Mosseri · Host Harry StebbingsInstagram’s head discusses leadership, product complexity, competition and what it would take to turn Threads’ early sign-ups into lasting use.
11:07ENMatthew Berman· Jul 24, 2023Installing Llama 2 13B Chat and Testing Its ResponsesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates a 2023 local setup and tests a 13-billion-parameter chat model on coding, writing, arithmetic and reasoning. His small set of prompts illustrates both useful outputs and mistakes.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSettlers Took Half His Jerusalem House. Mohammed El-Kurd Calls It Politics, Not Real EstateGuest Mohammed El-Kurd · Host Lex FridmanThe Palestinian poet tells Lex Fridman how Sheikh Jarrah, the Nakba, and a childhood of eviction orders shape his case against treating Zionism as a religion rather than a political project.
11:16ENMatthew Berman· Jul 21, 2023AI News in July 2023: Llama 2, Generated Video and Model BehaviorMatthew Berman · Matthew BermanMatthew Berman surveys a week of AI announcements, research and reporting, from entertainment experiments to enterprise tools and Meta’s Llama 2.
1:00:44EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 21, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersJean-Denis Greze on Hiring, Product Differentiation and Leading Engineering at PlaidGuest Jean-Denis Greze · Host Harry StebbingsPlaid’s CTO discusses how he assesses talent, balances fast execution with reliability and weighs incremental improvements against long-term bets.
39:50ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 20, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersWhy AI Video Is Still a Four-Second CorgiHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMeta research director Devi Parikh explains why text-to-video has stalled on short animated images, and what it will take to get past that plateau.
9:40ENMatthew Berman· Jul 20, 2023Testing Llama 2 70B on Coding, Writing and ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries Meta’s 70-billion-parameter chat model through a hosted interface, highlighting both useful outputs and inconsistent reasoning.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,470