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Matthew Berman· Jul 29, 2024Testing Llama 3.1 8B: Benchmark Gains and Mixed Practical ResultsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tests coding, reasoning and other prompts on the small model and finds several failures despite stronger reported benchmarks.
44:08ENMatthew Berman· Jul 25, 2024Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Models and Meta’s AI StrategyMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reacts to Zuckerberg’s 2024 interview on open-weight AI, safety, platform control and a future of personalized agents.
10:02ENMatthew Berman· Jul 24, 2024Testing Llama 3.1 405B on Coding, Arithmetic and ReasoningMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries Meta's 2024 open-weight model on an informal set of prompts and demonstrates a sponsored dataset workflow.
0:58ENMatthew Berman· Jul 23, 2024Meta Releases Llama 3.1 and Its 405B ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman argues that Meta's open-weight Llama 3.1 puts pressure on proprietary AI providers, while its license and deployment costs add important qualifications.
15:50ENMatthew Berman· Jul 23, 2024Llama 3.1: Meta’s 405B Model and the Open-Weight EcosystemMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews Meta’s July 2024 release, the smaller models, reported benchmarks, synthetic data and the proposed Llama Stack.
15:16ENMatthew Berman· Jul 19, 2024AI News in July 2024: Small Models, Robot Hands and a Self-Charging DroneMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews model announcements, creative demonstrations, AI education and training-data concerns in a snapshot of one week in 2024.
11:30ENMatthew Berman· Jul 11, 2024Testing Google Gemma 2 27B: Coding, Reasoning and FormattingMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman runs an informal 2024 test of Google’s open-weight model on cloud hardware supplied by sponsor Vultr.
18:57ENMatthew Berman· Jul 9, 2024AI News in July 2024: Small Models, Voice Tools and OpenAI SecurityMatthew Berman, Andrej Karpathy · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews AI product announcements, model evaluation and security reporting, and shares his predictions about the future of computing.
11:20ENMatthew Berman· Jul 1, 2024Matthew Berman Adapts Mixture of Agents to Groq InferenceMatthew Berman · Forward FutureA 2024 tutorial changes an open-source multi-model ensemble to use Groq, then tests its interactive output and fixes a streaming error.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 26, 2024PodcastA Tiny Network Grew a Salt Crystal the Training Data Never ShowedHost Nathan LabenzTim Duignan trained tens of thousands of parameters on salt water. The model invented a crystal — and a continuum solvent theory he had spent a PhD failing to write by hand.
16:06ENMatthew 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.
25:07ENMatthew Berman· May 14, 2024Google I/O 2024: Gemini, Project Astra and AI Across Google’s ProductsSundar Pichai, Josh Woodward, Demis Hassabis · GoogleA guided look at Google’s 2024 demonstrations, from multimodal assistants and generative media to Workspace, Android and developer models.
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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.
1:42:17ENCognitive 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.
15:35ENMatthew Berman· Apr 18, 2024Meta Llama 3 Launch: Benchmarks, a Snake Test and the Meta AI AssistantMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the April 2024 release, tries a generated game and considers what downloadable models mean for developers.
0:55ENMatthew Berman· Apr 18, 2024Meta Llama 3: A Quick Coding and Image DemonstrationMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews the initial 8B and 70B Llama 3 release and tries a Python Snake game and an image prompt.
12:02ENMatthew Berman· Apr 13, 2024Testing Karasu Mixtral 8x22B on Coding and Reasoning TasksMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries an early community fine-tune of Mistral's large mixture-of-experts model on a Snake game, arithmetic and logic puzzles.Load moreShowing 24 of 243