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Matthew Berman· Jun 18, 2024AI News: Video Generation, Apple Intelligence, Robotics and DeepSeek Coder V2Matthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews a week of launches and research, from Luma and Runway to NVIDIA, robotics and coding models.
17:03ENMatthew Berman· Jun 8, 2024Qwen2 0.5B and 72B: A Hands-On ComparisonMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts on the smallest and largest Qwen2 models in a 2024 demonstration.
14:25ENMatthew Berman· Jun 2, 2024Testing Phi-3 Vision, LLaVA-Llama 3 and GPT-4o on ImagesMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares three 2024 vision setups on image descriptions, screenshots, a meme and table extraction, with mixed results.
9:53ENMatthew Berman· May 28, 2024Testing Microsoft Phi-3 Medium Locally: Mixed Coding and Reasoning ResultsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs a quantized Phi-3 Medium on a MacBook and explores coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts.
12:50ENMatthew Berman· May 22, 2024Testing Smaug: Hosted 70B Versus a Smaller Local ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares two Smaug configurations on Snake, math and reasoning puzzles.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersArthur Mensch on Mistral’s Open Models, Compute and Developer StrategyGuest Arthur Mensch · Host Harry StebbingsThe Mistral AI co-founder explains the company’s mix of open and commercial models, its compute constraints and its bet on efficient developer tools.
21:47ENMatthew Berman· Apr 24, 2024Phi-3 Mini: Microsoft’s Small Model, Phone Deployment and an Uncertain Local TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Microsoft’s 2024 technical report and runs informal prompts, with an unresolved model label in the demonstration.
12:51ENMatthew Berman· Apr 21, 2024Llama 3 70B on Groq: Fast Inference and an Informal Prompt TestMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, reasoning and repeated prompts on Groq’s April 2024 Llama 3 service, with mixed results and several scoring caveats.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 20, 2024PodcastThe Cheapest Inference Provider Is the Most DangerousHost Nathan LabenzFireworks AI cofounders Lin Qiao and Dmytro Ivchenko explain why subsidized GPU bills vanish, how LoRA serving can cut cost a hundredfold, and why OpenAI is the rival that actually matters.
15:01ENMatthew Berman· Apr 19, 2024Testing Llama 3 at Launch: Code, Reasoning and Image GenerationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries Meta AI’s new interface on a snake game, logic puzzles and rapid image generation.
14:23ENMatthew Berman· Mar 31, 2024Testing DBRX: Coding Strengths and Reasoning GapsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman examines Databricks’ open-weight model and puts it through coding, arithmetic and reasoning prompts.
14:11ENMatthew Berman· Mar 23, 2024LM Studio in 2024: Local Models, Parallel Inference and a Local APIMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman demonstrates model downloads, hardware settings, JSON output and serving multiple local models.
8:26ENMatthew Berman· Mar 18, 2024Testing Grok on X After the 2024 Grok-1 Weight ReleaseMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries coding and reasoning prompts in the hosted Grok interface, with mixed results.
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Lex Fridman· Mar 7, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersIf You Want Human-Level AI, Abandon Generative ModelsGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun tells Lex Fridman why autoregressive LLMs cannot plan, remember, or understand the physical world — and why open source is the only democratic answer.
23:00ENMatthew Berman· Feb 22, 2024Testing Google Gemma 7B at Launch: Setup MattersMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares local and hosted tests of Google’s early open-weight model.
27:07ENMatthew Berman· Feb 14, 2024Sam Altman on AI Abundance, Regulation and the Economics of ComputeMatthew Berman, Sam Altman, Chamath Palihapitiya · Forward FutureA 2024 World Governments Summit interview is followed by Matthew Berman’s discussion of chip investment and open-model competition.
9:25ENMatthew Berman· Jan 31, 2024Matthew Berman Tests Meta’s Code Llama 70B on a Snake GameMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2024 look at Meta’s coding-model release, a SQL-focused fine-tune and a hands-on test that did not work on the first attempt.
3:37ENMatthew Berman· Jan 18, 2024Mark Zuckerberg Announces Llama 3 Training and Meta’s AI PlansMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureIn January 2024, Matthew Berman reacts to Zuckerberg’s remarks on general intelligence, compute and AI devices.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 11, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe World's Only Capped-Profit CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNo Priors looks back at 2023 through eight conversations on money, intelligence, jobs, and who should put the guardrails on a model.
35:22ENMatthew Berman· Jan 3, 2024Matthew Berman’s Ten AI Predictions for 2024Matthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg, Lex Fridman, Jaron Lanier, Joon Park, Elon Musk · Forward FutureAn early-2024 forecast covers model releases, robotics, agents, synthetic data and the risks of increasingly convincing bots.
14:04ENMatthew Berman· Dec 15, 2023Mistral Medium in 2023: API Pricing and Informal Model TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman compares the original Mistral Medium prototype with Mixtral and GPT-4, then tests coding, writing and reasoning through the API.
20:49ENMatthew Berman· Dec 12, 2023Mixtral 8x7B: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture, Setup and Early TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Mistral AI’s December 2023 open-weight model, demonstrates a cloud setup and tests its coding and reasoning responses.
2:16:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 12, 2023PodcastSuperhuman Go Has a Blind Spot. Balaji Bets on a War of the GodsHost Nathan LabenzBalaji Srinivasan tells Nathan Labenz why adversarial inputs, missing actuators, and cryptography make a single runaway AI god less likely than a contest among many that still need priests.
7:48ENMatthew Berman· Nov 26, 2023Testing Dolphin 2.2 Yi 34B on Coding and Reasoning TasksMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs a quantized Yi fine-tune through informal coding, writing and logic prompts in November 2023, with uneven results.Load moreShowing 24 of 200