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🤖 GitHub Models for AI engineers

🤖 GitHub Models for AI engineers

🦾Plus: Elon Musk's new school 🏫

August 03, 2024

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In today's edition:

📦R package development in Positron
📊A Visual Guide to Quantization
🔍Interpretable Machine Learning
✨ Gemini 1.5 Pro tops chatbot leaderboard
🎨 Stability AI's instant 3D asset generator
🤖Figure announces Figure 02
💡 AI Tutorial: How to make an AI clone of yourself
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

What is Power BI Deployment Pipeline?

With the constant need to develop the Power BI software to make it more accessible and reliable for end users, BI creators need to come together and collaborate often to make these changes happen in the collection of apps and connectors.

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GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub

GitHub Models, enabling more than 100 million developers to become AI engineers and build with industry-leading AI models. From Llama 3.1, to GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini, to Phi 3 or Mistral Large 2, you can access each model via a built-in playground that lets you test different prompts and model parameters, for free, right in GitHub.

A Visual Guide to Quantization - Demystifying the Compression of LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) are often too large to run on consumer hardware. These models may exceed billions of parameters and generally need GPUs with large amounts of VRAM to speed up inference

R package development in Positron

This post is about the R package development experience with Positron, the new IDE from Posit based on VS Code. This is not a tutorial on R package development in general — there are great resources for that elsewhere. Read on.

Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable

Machine learning has great potential for improving products, processes and research. But computers usually do not explain their predictions which is a barrier to the adoption of machine learning.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

Turmoil (GitHub Repo)

Turmoil is a testing framework for distributed systems. It can run multiple concurrent hosts within a single thread to provide deterministic execution.

ugrep-indexer
A monotonic indexer to speed up grepping by >10x.

pixi
pixi is a cross-platform, multi-language package manager and workflow tool build on the shoulders of the conda ecosystem. pixi supports Python, R, C/C++, Rust, Ruby, and many other languages.

SQLedge
Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the edge

AI News:

✨ Gemini 1.5 Pro tops chatbot leaderboard

For the first time ever, Google DeepMind's experimental Gemini 1.5 Pro has claimed the top spot on the AI Chatbot Arena leaderboard, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude-3.5 with an impressive score of 1300.

Elon Musk's little company town is getting a school, if regulators allow it

Elon Musk plans to launch an experimental private school called Ad Astra in September ahead of the 2024 to 2025 school year. Ad Astra will be based in Bastrop, Texas, a rural community that has been transformed into somewhat of a hub for several of Musk's companies.

⚡️ Meta plans to use 10x more compute to train its Llama 4 AI model

Meta is preparing to dramatically increase computing power for its upcoming Llama 4 AI model. Meta plans to use 10x more computing power to train Llama 4. The company's strategic partnerships with major cloud providers aim to maximize the adoption and accessibility of Llama 4.

🎨 Stability AI's instant 3D asset generator

Stability AI just introduced Stable Fast 3D, an AI model that generates high-quality 3D assets from a single image in just 0.5 seconds — potentially reshaping industries from gaming to e-commerce.

Figure announces Figure 02

The company claims it’s the most advanced humanoid robot on the planet. It will likely also be powered by OpenAI, just like the previous model, Figure 01.

The full reveal will be on August 6th. This is a tough competition for Tesla Optimus 💪

AI Tutorial

How to make an AI clone of yourself

Source: Synthesia

On Wednesday, Synthesia launched Personal Avatars. It allows you to create a realistic digital version of yourself.

Here’s how to create an AI clone of yourself:

Pick a spot with good lighting and a clear view of your face.
Use a webcam or smartphone to capture a short script and upload the footage to Synthesia.
Record a consent video, and voilà—your avatar will be ready the next day!

🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity:

Dify.ai is an AI tool focused on creating and operating AI-native apps based on GPT-4 models.
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Notta is an AI-based voice-to-text transcription service that supports 104 languages, providing high accuracy
Sococal.ai builds your unique and engaging 30-day Social Content Calendar in seconds.
Deep Flow – an AI lyrics co-writer for rappers & singers
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