2024-11-19
Amazon Alexa discovers cascaded voice AI latency is too high in Q4 2024 lol. [image]
Fortune
Memo: Amazon employees find there is too much of a delay between asking the new LLM-based Alexa a question and getting a response or seeing it complete a task
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. — Amazon's race to create an AI-based successor to its voice assistant Alexa has hit more snags …
2024-07-24
Meta trained a E2E speech experience with Llama 3.1 - pretty cool! This should equal real-time speech response. Audio encoder + adapter + LLM = audio in, text out Custom TTS model uses LLM embeddings to condition output - IMO elegant to stay in latent space and avoid phonemes. [image]
Meta
Mark Zuckerberg argues that “open source AI” is the path forward, closed models are vulnerable to vendor lock-in and state-backed espionage, and more
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : You can find @zuck's full post here https://www.facebook.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Mark Zuckerberg has...
Compared leaked Llama 3.1 benchmarks with other leading models, very excited for the release! We can tier out models by price / 1M output tokens. O($0.10): 4o-mini and <10B param models. I think 4o-mini will still be best but a strong local 8B will unlock lots of applications. [image]
Bloomberg
Meta debuts Llama 3.1 405B, the “first frontier-level open source AI model”, as well as new Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models, and says it's working on Llama 4
Compared leaked Llama 3.1 benchmarks with other leading models, very excited for the release! We can tier out models by price / 1M output tokens. O($0.10): 4o-mini and <10B param models. I think 4o-mini will still be best but a strong local 8B will unlock lots of applications. [image]
Meta
Mark Zuckerberg argues that “open source AI” is the path forward, closed models are vulnerable to vendor lock-in and state-backed espionage, and more
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : You can find @zuck's full post here https://www.facebook.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Mark Zuckerberg has...
Meta trained a E2E speech experience with Llama 3.1 - pretty cool! This should equal real-time speech response. Audio encoder + adapter + LLM = audio in, text out Custom TTS model uses LLM embeddings to condition output - IMO elegant to stay in latent space and avoid phonemes. [image]
Bloomberg
Meta debuts Llama 3.1 405B, the “first frontier-level open source AI model”, as well as new Llama 3.1 70B and 8B models, and says it's working on Llama 4
2021-05-14
Worlds greatest tax writeoff scam https://twitter.com/...
The Block
Vitalik Buterin sells large amounts of SHIB, AKITA, and ELON tokens, sent to him by coin creators, for ~$60M worth of ETH, and donates the proceeds to charities
The Block :
2020-01-27
I scoured the internet and figured out where the “Kin Khao” food was supposed to come from. Would it surprise you that Softbank gave them a billion dollar valuation? https://hua.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
San Francisco Chronicle
Grubhub admits to adding restaurants without their permission, after restaurateur found her Thai restaurant had a page on Grubhub and its subsidiary Seamless
Pim Techamuanvivit was managing her Michelin-starred Thai restaurant in San Francisco, Kin Khao, around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday when she got an unexpected call. Tweets: @hingeloss , ...