October 2023 - AI Tidbits Monthly Roundup
Multimodal AI soars with Adept’s Fuyu, LLaVA 1.5, and Obsidian, new language models deliver unmatched performance at a fraction of the cost, and a host of new techniques to advance robotics.
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Welcome to the October edition of AI Tidbits, where we unravel the latest and greatest in AI. October was filled with innovative breakthroughs and groundbreaking research showcasing the astounding pace of progress in AI.
Leading the charge were open-source multimodal models with the likes of Adept’s Fuyu, LLaVA 1.5, and Obsidian - the world’s smallest multimodal AI. On the open-source front, Hugging Face released Zephyr, a language model beating Anthropic’s Claude 2 on AlpacaEval, and Distil-Whisper - a speech2text model that is 6x faster compared to OpenAI’s Whisper.
Apple joined the generative AI race with a few new papers (Matryoshka, SAM-CLIP) and Google DeepMind was hard at work with new techniques to generate high-quality training data for robotics.
These and many more exciting updates across multimodal AI, video models, and open-source tools are part of this month’s roundup.
Let's dive in!
Overview
Large Language Models
Commercial (5 entries)
Research (4 entries)
Open-source (8 entries)
✨ Special feature: Multimodal AI (10 entries)
Autonomous Agents (4 entries)
Image and Video (10 entries)
Robotics (5 entries)
Cool Tools (5 entries)
Open-source (6 entries)
Recent AI Tidbits Deep Dives
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Commercial
Phind releases a new 16k context model that beats GPT-4 at coding at GPT-3.5-like speed
Google brings image generation to its Bard chatbot through its text2image model Imagen
Research
Open-source
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