This AI newsletter is all you need #68

Microsoft introduced Phi 1.5 – a compact AI model with multimodal capabilities, meaning it can process images as well as text. Despite being significantly smaller than OpenAI's GPT-4, with only 1.3 billion parameters, it demonstrates advanced features like those found in larger models. Phi 1.5 is open-source, emphasizing the trend towards efficient

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pair-preference-model-LLaMA3-8B by RLHFlow: Really strong reward model, trained to take in two inputs at once, which is the top open reward model on RewardBench (beating one of Cohere’s).

DeepSeek-V2 by deepseek-ai (21B active, 236B total param.): Another strong MoE base model from the DeepSeek team. Some people are questioning the very high MMLU sc... See more

There’s a lot of hype around AI, and in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs). To be blunt, a lot of that hype is just some demo bullshit that would fall over the instant anyone tried to use it for a real task that their job depends on. The reality is far less glamorous: it’s hard to build a real product backed by an LLM .