AI Reading for Friday April 19

Llama 3 is out. Will be interesting to see the benchmarks in the wild and how people finetune it.

• 8b- and 70b-parameter models are out, 400b-parameter version is training

• Running on meta.ai, and all the Meta properties, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, eventually on VR products like Ray-Ban glasses

• Meta.ai does images and short animations - TechRadar

NY Times story.

The Verge.

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Meta AI is already out there giving unhinged answers? - Mail Online

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Elon Musk: "Not bad". Unlike Grok, a 72b-parameter model is fairly straightforward to run in cloud services with H100(s) and the 8b-parameter version is runnable and trainable on 4090s with quantization. Will be interesting to see how it benchmarks in the wild, whether these models beat similar open-source versions like Mistral, and whether the 400b-parameter version competes with GPT-4.

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Meta paper proposes transformer architecture with unlimited context size.

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Google management shakeup gives more power to Demis Hassabis. - Business Insider

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Stability AI lays off workers. Stable Diffusion 3 is out, but you have to pay to try it. - The Verge

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Watch a humanoid robot mirror your motions, which could come in handy for remote dangerous work, or maybe games, like a robot boxing tournament. - The Sun

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AI pins are becoming a category? Three makes a trend. - Tom's Guide

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Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand most diseases.

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AI-piloted F-16 variant successfully engaged human pilots in dogfights.

Previously AI successfully fought humans in simulators but now they put it in a real aircraft. - NBC News

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An upcoming local AI feature in Windows will initially only be available on the Qualcomm-powered ARM laptops, since they are the only ones that currently have sufficient AI compute. - LaptopMag

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AI giants look to agent automation to unlock revenue.

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