Steven Willmott

Sunday Links: Parrot, Apple AI AI, and building LLMs

A little later again due to travel during the week, but here are this week's links: * CodeParrot: An AI-powered tool that Transforms Figma Files into Production Ready Code. One of the more widely talked about this week is Parrot, which takes Figma (interface code design) files and turns

Sunday Links: AI Trillions, Ontologies and Weather Balloons

A little late again this week after a lot of travel. Here are the most interesting links I came across: * NVIDIA's Market cap. In other news, NVIDIA's market cap rose to over $3Trillion this week, briefly overtaking Apple. NVIDIA crossed the $1T mark in May 2023

Sunday Links: $6B for another foundation model, bots, and more publisher licensing

It's a little late this weekend, but maybe this will help you kick off your Monday. Here are this week's links: * Perplexity is rolling out report creation. Perplexity is still my go-to web search tool despite Google bringing Gemini into play for search summaries (see below

Saturday Links: AlphaFold3, The SEO Storm and Mapping LLM Concepts

Here are this week's links: * AlphaFold 3 now predicts how proteins interact. Google's AlphaFold project is already one of the best examples of using AI to understand the biological world. Versions 1 and 2 were able to predict possible protein folding configurations, which was a major

Saturday Links: Two Keynotes and Sarcasm Detection for AI

There was two dueling AI keynotes this week, with OpenAI's unveiling of GPT4"oh" and Google's myriad of announcements at Google I/O. Those and other links this week: * Introducing ChatGPT 40. OpenAI's launch keynote, which was released on Monday, was an

Sunday Links: Training Data, AI Dating and Crushed Dreams

Here are this weeks links, just sneaking into the week: * Stack Overflow and OpenAI partner to enhance OpenAI models and share them right back. In the deal, OpenAI will benefit from StackOverflow's deep reservoir of coding knowledge for training. StackOverflow will have access to build its own AI

Sunday Links: Xaira, Data Centre Geopolitics and Search

Even later this week, but here are the most interesting links I came across this week: * Xaira, an AI drug discovery startup, launches with a massive $1B. The AI+Science trend continues with another massive investment. The company raised initial funds from well-known Silicon Valley funds, then operated in stealth,

Saturday Links: The R1 arrives, LLM Shrinkage and AI+String Theory

Hello to everyone. Here are the links for the week: * A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget. The Rabbit R1 device has arrived. It's a device 1/2 the size of the phone that operates apps on your behalf, and I've

Saturday Links: Notion, One-click divorce, and RIP Daniel Dennett

Here are this week's links: * Notion and AI on Forbes. Overview article of Notion's plans for AI and continued rapid growth in the business productivity space. If you don't know what Notion is, think of it as a more programmable Google Docs. Monday.com

Saturday Links: Google Enterprise AI, Training Data, and Robot Rescue

Here are this week's links: * The "Everything AI" Google Next Keynote. Google went all in on AI in its showpiece keynote this week. Its core pitch was that it has the deepest infrastructure base to deliver AI both to the consumer and to the enterprise. There

Saturday Links: Stargate, Jobs and Lavender

Here are this week's links, including one truly awful story: * The open source Devin's multiply. Last week, we covered an open-source project (Devina) that is following in the footsteps of Magic.Dev, Devin, and other projects that aim to use LLMs to create fully functional "

Easter Links: Extending transformers, Devika and Databricks flexes

Here are this week's standout AI links: * AI21 Labs juices up gen AI transformers with Jamba. Another little step in tweaking the power of transformers. The new model from AI21 labs focused on integrating Mamba (originally developed by CMU and Princeton) with Transformers to manage context more efficiently.

Saturday Links: High pay in the AI Era, Inflection.AI and Brain Interfaces

The astute among you will have spotted that last week's post didn't happen. My apologies for the gap in service! Some travel off-grid meant that the post didn't make it but normal service is restored. I also have a couple of longer posts in

Saturday Links: Singing Pictures, Trashy CNET and AI Firewall CDNs

One day late again this week: apologies. Here are the highlight links of the week, though: * “Building An Answer Engine” Aravind Srinivas interview on Invest Like the Best. Really good interview with the founder of Perplexity (which I'm a fan of). Aravind gives a really good state of

Friday Links: Brain Eats Phone, Lip Syncing, and Don't Learn to Code

Here are this week's standout links: * Hugging Face will undoubtedlyMalicious code in some Hugging Face AI models. As with any large content community, there will be abuse. Software supply chain vendor JFrog identified a number of models that could hijack user machines. Hugging Face will undoubtedly step up

Saturday Links: AI Soap Operas, Faster Chips and Generous Chat Bots

One day late, my apologies, but here are the links for the week: * TV soaps could be made by AI within three years. News from a parliamentary committee on art and culture around the accelerating speed of content creation in all industries. My guess is that this timeline is both

Friday Links: AI reads the Internet, multi-language data sets, and highly realistic generated video

Here are this week's links. * Cohere releases Aya: a model and dataset focused on support for 101 languages. Getting native language support in AI is a really important goal for equal access (and ultimately also for cultural preservation). Cohere's project crowdsourced and processed expert-level language data

Saturday Links: Agent Wars, Copyright Fightbacks, and Abstract Reasoning for LLMs

One day late again, apologies! Travel has been heavy these past couple of weeks, so it's been tough to get ahead of the curve enough to post on time. It's been an interesting week with big shifts that could have long-term implications but muted commentary. A

Friday Links: AI Fairness, EU AI Law Advances and Jailbreaks

Here are this week's five links. If you're ready to have LLMs linked directly to your brain, then Elon Musk has something for you... * AI Tidbit's methods for securing LLMs from Jailbreaks: this is a useful concise overview, but more than anything, it serves

Saturday Links: Google Gets a Hug, Revolutionary Rabbit, and Apple's Malicious Compliance

The week got away from me again, so we're one day late with these. Hopefully, they will still add something to your weekend: * Hugging Face and Google partner for open AI collaboration. Hugging Face is the biggest model-sharing community, and this extension focuses on making it easier to

Saturday Links: Alpha Geometry, The end of the Browser & OS plus Sleeper Agents

The end of the week turned into a big work crunch, so here we are with links on Saturday instead of Friday. Here's are this week's links with a distinctly science/technical lean in this case: * Google's AlphaGeometry can learn to solve geometric puzzles

Friday Links: The ChatGPT store, Screenless AI Devices and Economic Impact

Time for this for this week's links, which this week are a little bigger picture: * OpenAI introduces the ChatGPT Store: you can now put out (and use) popular fine tunes. It will be interesting to see to what extent the resulting selection of tools begins to look like

Friday Links: Tiny LLMs, Apple OpenSource and Perplexity raises $73M

Week 1 of 2024, and it's already Friday. In case you missed the update earlier this week, this newsletter is now coming to you via Ghost and not Substack. Happy New Year, and here are the links I found most interesting so far this week: * Tiny LLama: Putting

Leaving Substack for Ghost

I didn't expect to be writing another post over the new year, but here we are. This blog isn't intended to be political or socially activist (except perhaps insofar as AI impacts big societal decisions), but sometimes issues come to your door. Substack is a great