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AI researchers found a way to run LLMs at a lightbulb-esque 13 watts with no loss in performance

LED lightbulbs, which usually consume about 10 Watts of power a piece. (Image credit: Getty Images)

A research paper from UC Santa Cruz and accompanying writeup discussing how AI researchers found a way to run modern, billion-parameter-scale LLMs on just 13 watts of power. That's about the same as a 100W-equivalent LED bulb, but more importantly, its about 50 times more efficient than the 700W of power that's needed by data center

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OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July - Reuters

OpenAI delays rolling out its 'Voice Mode' to July Reuters

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Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as U.S. company plans API restrictions - Reuters

Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as U.S. company plans API restrictions Reuters

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Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server

Llamafile has been one of the better new initiatives out of Mozilla in recent years. Llamafile makes it easy to conveniently distribute and run large language models as a single file while supporting both CPU and GPU execution and all-around making AI LLMs much more approachable for end-users. Out today is Llamafile 0.8.7 with more performance optimizations and new features.

After recent Llamafile releases have been tuning the Intel/AMD AVX performance, today's Llamafile 0.8.7 release brings some ARM performance improvements
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GitHub Copilot Extensions are all you need

June 24, 2024 by Isidor Nikolic, @isidorn

In 2017, Google researchers introduced the concept of transformers in their seminal paper, "Attention is All You Need" . These types of models, which prioritize information similarly to human focus, are the foundation of today’s modern language models, such as the ones that power GitHub Copilot.

The same way that transformers were transformative (sorry) for AI, we believe GitHub Copilot Extensions will ultimately deliver on the full promise of AI

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Researchers hope to quash AI hallucination bugs that stem from words with more than one meaning

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The AI boom has allowed the general consumer to use AI chatbots like ChatGPT to get information from prompts demonstrating both breadth and depth. However, these AI models are still prone to hallucinations , where erroneous answers are delivered. Moreover, AI models can even provide demonstrably false (sometimes dangerous) answers . While some hallucinations are caused by incorrect training data, generalization, or other data harvesting side-effects, Oxford researchers have target the problem from another angle. In Nature, they published details of

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AMD AI Compiler Engineer Lands A Generic MLIR To SPIR-V Pass In LLVM 19

Merged on Friday to LLVM 19 Git is a generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass for lowering the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation down into SPIR-V as the intermediate representation consumed by OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan drivers.

This generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass for LLVM is intended to yield better coverage of upstream compilation to SPIR-V and enables writing simple kernels by hand. The MLIR hybrid IR continues seeing much industry interest and adoption for this intermediate representation. AMD and others have worked on MLIR to SPIR-
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Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model, claims it outperforms GPT-4o in some tests

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TL;DR: Anthropic has been on a roll of late, playing catch-up with OpenAI's offerings with new features. On Thursday, the company launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, touting it as a leap over previous iterations while also claiming it beats the recently launched GPT-4 Omni on several metrics. The company also released Artifacts, a new workspace within Claude that displays things like code snippets as a

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Anthropic launches newest AI model, three months after its last - Reuters

Anthropic launches newest AI model, three months after its last Reuters

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AMD ROCm 6.1.3 update enables multi-GPU support, beta-level support for Windows Subsystem for Linux

ROCm 6.1.3 released

AMD is officially launching its latest ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) platform, now featuring support for multiple graphics cards in clusters.

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