Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI)
@altryne
ποΈ Host of @thursdai_pod β¨ AI Evangelist with @weights_biases πͺπ working on @weave_wb Founder and CEO @ targum.video not an owl *hoot*
Success of the LLM King: Recap from Live Show
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This live show was one of our biggest, over 1600 people tuned in!
As always, you can find the full writeup + show-notes and links to the podcast episode on all the major podcatchers here:
sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-june-20th-claude-sonnet
Of course the number one thing we talked about was Claw'd Sonnet 3.5, it's now the LLM king, and I focused mostly on that in the writeup!
we had @skirano on to tell us about some crazy stuff Sonnet pulled in his tests
x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1803790676988920098
ThursdAI June 13 TL;DR
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As always, listen to the show everywhere you get your podcasts
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5WSLXH1TTCOgsInhcyWVCU?si=c851f393000d44fd
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week/id1698613329?i=1000658966057
And if you want a bit more, or like to read instead, visit the post on the newsletter π
sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-june-13th-2024-apple-intelligence
ThursdAI - Jun 6th - Qwen2 Beats Llama-3, Jina vs. Nomic for Multimodal Supremacy & Audio Goes Open Source
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First of all, if you want to listen to the full show, we're all on podcatchers
ποΈSpotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0kB2ZlYQ7upzOw2Wu7V0XL?si=cba98870953345a0
ποΈApple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week/id1698613329
And of course I also send a very full newsletter for folks who don't want to listen to two hours:
sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-jun-6th-qwen2-beats-llama
Now let's get to the actual things we covered, of course the biggest announcement from @JustinLin610 was about Qwen2 suite of models, Justin is a long time ThursdAI panelist, and now had some #breakingNews from Qwen beating LLama-3 70B and becoming the top Open Source LLM!
x.com/JustinLin610/status/1798747072319074347
Memorable Moments at Google IO with Top Creators
It was amazing to participate in the creator/influencer delegation during @Google IO, thanks to @OfficialLoganK who invited a bunch of us π₯
This being a social network and all, here are all the top creators I got to hang out with and meet at the event π
@conorgrennan
Thread Highlights: Lucid Dreaming and HourGlass Diffusion Transformers
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Here's all the X links if you want to follow up from the thread:
We had the @propheticai folks do a breaking news segment and covered their ultrasonic transformer π§ to put you in the state of lucid dreaming!
twitter.com/PropheticAI/status/1750534355242418300
My friend @iScienceLuvr first appearance on ThursdAI was an incredible one, he co-authored the super π₯ HourGlass Diffusion Transformers paper with @RiversHaveWings @StefanABaumann @Birchlabs @DanielZKaplan and another friend of the pod @EnricoShippole and gave a great deep dive
twitter.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1749624496770973816?s=20
Big Career News: Joining Weights & Biases as AI Evangelist
π Big Career News! π
Thrilled to share that I'm joining @weights_biases as an AI Evangelist.
Now, before you hit RT and congrats, you may ask: What does an AI Evangelist do? What's W&B? What about @thursdai_pod, Targum, and can I hook you up with some free wandb stuff? 𧡠π
ThursdAI Nov 02
Had such a great time today recording @thursdai_pod with tons of friends and experts!
sub.thursdai.news/p/thursdai-nov-02-chatgpt-all-tools
Listen right on X or click into the newsletter to get the show-notes and links!
(or just read this thread and check out all the source links right here π)
Before the links, make sure to set a reminder to this X space we're hosting together with @thursdai_pod and @latentspacepod (@swyx) live from the OpenAI Dev Day!
twitter.com/i/spaces/1BRJjPNLNyVKw?s=20
We're expecting tons of new shinies from OAI & will be live on the ground reporting ποΈ
LK-99 Superconductor TwitX Corner
Welcome to LK-99 superconductor twitX corner, new here? Here are a few folks to pay attention to (or follow the list) :
twitter.com/i/lists/168444679573120614
@alexkaplan0 - broke the story w/ 29M views, the king of "we're so back, it's over, we're back? " rollercoaster
.@andrewmccalip from Varda space took X by storm, announcing that they have the expertise, tools and most of the materials to start replicating this, and is live streaming the replication attempt on X/Twitch
twitter.com/andrewmccalip/status/1684821396411809792?s=20
A Saturday dive into AI tools, using AI research friends
Not that you need to read this, however, if you do, it'll give you a little glimpse into how my brains works... and how I'm trying to outsource larger and larger parts of it to AI....
Here's my deep dive into @EndelSound - who's claims I both loved and was very sceptic of π
#ThursdAI July 13 - GPT-4.5 CI, Claude V2, X.ai and MORE π₯
What an insane AI week, and we still haven't gotten to #ThursdAI so stay tuned!
twitter.com/i/spaces/1YpKkggrRgPKj
As every week, we're going to meet w/ experts, chat about everything that happened (and a LOT has) and give you updates, high signal so drop a reminder and see you then ππ§΅