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Here is what we have Today:

• 🧠 Nvidia's Secret Weapon: The LLM That's Outsmarting GPT-4?

• 🤖 Atlas learns human skills: Sci-fi or reality?

• 💻 Mistral's game-changing chips: The end of cloud AI?

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

NVIDIA

🧠Nvidia's 70B Nemotron Topples AI Giants

Nvidia quietly released Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, an open-source LLM outperforming industry leaders on key benchmarks.

How does Nemotron stack up?

• Outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on multiple metrics

• Achieves top scores on alignment benchmarks:

  • Arena Hard: 85.0

  • AlpacaEval 2 LC: 57.6

  • GPT-4-Turbo MT-Bench: 8.98

• Accomplishes this with only 70B parameters

What's under the hood?

• Based on Meta's Llama 3.1 70B model

• Fine-tuned by NVIDIA using advanced ML methods like RLHF

• Open-sourced model, reward model, and training dataset on Hugging Face

How to Use it?

• Available as Open-sourced model on Hugging Face.

• Also can be tested in a preview on the website.

Why is this surprising?

• NVIDIA is known for chipmaking, not typically for producing top-tier models

• A smaller, open-source model is competing with much larger proprietary ones

What's the industry impact?

• Challenges the notion that bigger models are always better

• Demonstrates the potential of advanced fine-tuning techniques

• Could accelerate the trend towards more efficient, open-source AI models

What's next?

• Researchers and developers can now access and build upon Nemotron

• Potential for further improvements and applications of the model

• May inspire more companies to invest in developing efficient, open-source LLMs

This development suggests a shift in the AI landscape, where smaller, more efficient models could potentially disrupt the dominance of large, proprietary systems.

Trending Today

• Meta Quest 3 is an upgrade from the Meta Quest 2 — stated to be the best virtual game headset has a thinner lens, sensor and color passes — allowing the user to blend the virtual and physical world

• Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute has announced a new partnership to accelerate development of advanced humanoids, with plans to integrate TRI’s Large Behavior Models (LBMs) into the Atlas electric robot — aim to teach robots to handle multi-task, dexterous vision, and language-guided capabilities.

• ChatGPT's web traffic reached a record 3.1B visits in September 2024, according to Similarweb, representing a 112% year-over-year increase and making it the 11th most visited website globally.

• French AI startup Mistral AI just launched two new compact language models designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to edge devices like phones and laptops.

• OpenAI published research examining how ChatGPT responds to usernames with various genders, racial, and cultural backgrounds — finding minimal bias but some stereotypical responses in open-ended tasks like creative writing.

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