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Nous’s HERMES 3, How do LLMs perceive reality?, Geekbench AI’s new benchmark
Take a look at this fine-tuned novelty.
Sthefania
August 19, 2024
Hello, Starters!
The open-source community has become one of the must-watches in AI development, as the most promising offerings are coming from it, and its growth ensures we will have a never-ending list of innovations in the upcoming years.
Here’s what you’ll find today:
Nous introduces HERMES 3
LLMs have their own understanding of reality
Geekbench AI’s benchmark for ML
Midjourney’s latest features
AI restores the voice of an ALS patient
And more.
🤖 Nous introduces HERMES 3 (4 min)
Hermes 3 is the latest breakthrough in open-source. This model, developed by Nous Research in collaboration with Lambda Labs, is a fine-tuned version of Meta's Llama 3.1 framework and is available in three parameter sizes: 8B, 70B, and 405B showcasing performance that actually surpasses Llama. It has been trained with synthesised data and a mix of reinforcement learning from human feedback and Neural Magic's FP8 method.
This model has been designed with a user-first mindset, which goes beyond a creative approach, displaying great adaptability to following instructions, long-term context retention, agentic functions, and even internal monologue abilities.
Research from MIT's CSAIL is allowing us to have a glimpse into the thought process of LLMs. By training a model on over 1 million random puzzles and giving it solutions without showing how these solutions work, the model was consequently led to come up with its own.
Although the research was conducted with a small model and a simple programming language, the results are promising, as they showcase ways in which LLMs can develop a better understanding of language, which will further improve their learning capabilities.
📏 Geekbench AI’s benchmark for ML (2 min)
Most companies are looking for ways to improve their current evaluation methods to ensure the development of AI technologies goes right. Geekbench is one of them, and they've introduced its benchmarking suite specially designed for machine learning, deep learning, and most AI workloads.
Geekbench AI is aimed at developers, as they can harness it to ensure their apps are working optimally across platforms and for engineers or general users who want to analyse how a specific device uses AI.
🖼️Making image generation easier and getting one step ahead of new offerings, Midjourney has recently updated its website with tools that allow users to customise its AI creations even further. The website now includes a revamped editor with a canvas extension tool, which creates a larger version of the image with new visuals, and inpainting, which transforms selected areas through prompts.
🧠A 45-year-old ALS patient has regained his voice thanks to AI. Research by UC Davis has implemented a brain-computer interface and neural sensors to capture the brain commands involved in speech and translate them into words, which are processed by AI text-to-speech software based on old recordings of the patient's voice to make it sound exactly like him.
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