Tag: applications

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Pixtral Large

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/pixtral-large/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Pixtral Large Feedly Summary: Pixtral Large New today from Mistral: Today we announce Pixtral Large, a 124B open-weights multimodal model built on top of Mistral Large 2. Pixtral Large is the second model in our multimodal family and demonstrates frontier-level image understanding. The weights are out on…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged

    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/well/x-grok-health-privacy.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged Feedly Summary: Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights concerns from privacy experts regarding the…

  • CSA: The Risks of Insecure Third-Party Resources

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/11/18/top-threat-5-third-party-tango-dancing-around-insecure-resources Source: CSA Title: The Risks of Insecure Third-Party Resources Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses key security challenges related to cloud computing, specifically focusing on the fifth top threat: Insecure Third-Party Resources. It highlights the importance of Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) and offers strategies for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/qwen-turbo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens Feedly Summary: Qwen: Extending the Context Length to 1M Tokens The new Qwen2.5-Turbo boasts a million token context window (up from 128,000 for Qwen 2.5) and faster performance: Using sparse attention mechanisms, we successfully reduced the time to first…

  • CSA: 9 Tips to Improve Unstructured Data Security

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/9-tips-to-simplify-and-improve-unstructured-data-security Source: CSA Title: 9 Tips to Improve Unstructured Data Security Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines significant strategies for managing and securing unstructured data, based on a 2024 Gartner report. These strategies focus on leveraging Data Access Governance and Data Discovery tools, adapting to the changing landscape…

  • Hacker News: Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs?

    Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42170746 Source: Hacker News Title: Ask HN: Is there any license that is designed to exclude LLMs? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text expresses concerns about content harvesting by LLMs (Large Language Models) and discusses potential licensing solutions, highlighting the struggle to protect digital content. The insights are…

  • Wired: Why the US Government Banned Investments in Some Chinese AI Startups

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-outbound-investment-china-artificial-intelligence/ Source: Wired Title: Why the US Government Banned Investments in Some Chinese AI Startups Feedly Summary: The Biden administration chose to target only companies developing frontier AI models in China. But Trump could take a more sweeping approach. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The recent restrictions imposed by the US Treasury…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.4

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/llm-gemini-04/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.4 New release of my llm-gemini plugin, adding support for asynchronous models (see LLM 0.18), plus the new gemini-exp-1114 model (currently at the top of the Chatbot Arena) and a -o json_object 1 option to force JSON output. I also released llm-claude-3…

  • Hacker News: You could have designed state of the art positional encoding

    Source URL: https://fleetwood.dev/posts/you-could-have-designed-SOTA-positional-encoding Source: Hacker News Title: You could have designed state of the art positional encoding Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the evolution of positional encoding in transformer models, specifically focusing on Rotary Positional Encoding (RoPE) as utilized in modern language models like Llama 3.2. It explains…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.18

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/17/llm-018/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.18 Feedly Summary: LLM 0.18 New release of LLM. The big new feature is asynchronous model support – you can now use supported models in async Python code like this: import llm model = llm.get_async_model(“gpt-4o") async for chunk in model.prompt( "Five surprising names for a pet…