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Sequoia Capital· Jul 30, 2024PodcastMeta Trained a 405B Teacher on 16,000 GPUs — Then Told the World to Distill ItTwo days after Llama 3.1 405B shipped, Meta's generative-AI product lead walks Sequoia through why the most expensive model in the family is free, and why he thinks the frontier itself is heading toward commodity.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
33:23EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Nov 24, 2023Podcast · 11 speakersAI Leaders Debate Open Models, Pricing and the Future of SearchGuest Emad Mostaque, Des Traynor, Jeff Seibert, Yann Lecun, Richard Socher, Cris Valenzuela, Douwe Kiela, Tomasz Tunguz, Miles Grimshaw, Christian Lanng · Host Harry StebbingsA compilation of separate interviews brings together competing 2023 predictions about model economics, assistants and the largest technology companies.
32:57ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 9, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersA 7-billion-parameter model on a MacBook: Mistral's CEO reruns the cost of AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilArthur Mensch tells No Priors why Chinchilla made small models valuable, why open-sourcing Mistral 7B is not a bioweapon risk, and why guardrails belong on the application.Load moreShowing 24 of 139