Artificial Intelligence #217

Hey, in this issue: open release of Grok-1; building Meta’s GenAI infrastructure; the story of 8 Google employees invented modern AI; half-quadratic quantization of large machine learning models; LLM evaluation metrics; diffusion models from scratch; and more.

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• [Model] Open release of Grok-1
• [Meta] Building Meta’s GenAI infrastructure
• 8 Google employees invented modern AI. Here’s the inside story
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• Half-quadratic quantization of large machine learning models
• LLM evaluation metrics: Everything you need for LLM evaluation
• Diffusion models from scratch, from a new theoretical perspective
• [Sponsored] GitHub Code Reviews for Jupyter Notebooks
• [MIT TR] An AI-driven “factory of drugs” claims to have hit a big milestone
• [MIT] New algorithm unlocks high-resolution insights for computer vision

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