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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersZico Kolter on AI Safety, Scaling and the Limits of Open ModelsGuest Zico Kolter · Host Harry StebbingsThe Carnegie Mellon researcher and OpenAI board member explains why prompt injection worries him, how he thinks about open weights, and why AI progress remains uncertain.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 29, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAWS Is a $100 Billion Cloud. Matt Garman Still Sees a 10x Migration AheadHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAmazon Web Services’ new CEO tells No Priors why 85 percent of workloads are still on-prem, how Bedrock was built from three bets, and why startups remain the company’s growth engine.
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Matthew Berman· Aug 16, 2024Grok-2 Beta and the FLUX.1 Image ModelMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman discusses xAI's 2024 Grok-2 beta, its earlier leaderboard alias and a partnership with Black Forest Labs on image generation.
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Sequoia Capital· Aug 13, 2024PodcastOpen and Closed Will Tie at the Same Size: PyTorch's Former Lead on Fast InferenceA six-month library swap at Meta became a five-year rebuild. Lin Qiao wants the rest of the industry to get that stack in five weeks.
42:08ENSequoia 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.
13:40ENMatthew 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.
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.
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.
51:00EN20VC 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.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 199