Tag: speedup

  • Hacker News: 1-Bit AI Infrastructure

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16144 Source: Hacker News Title: 1-Bit AI Infrastructure Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advancements in 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs), highlighting the BitNet and BitNet b1.58 models that promise improved efficiency in processing speed and energy usage. The development of a software stack enables local…

  • Hacker News: Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens

    Source URL: http://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-turbo/ Source: Hacker News Title: Qwen2.5 Turbo extends context length to 1M tokens Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of Qwen2.5-Turbo, a large language model (LLM) that significantly enhances processing capabilities, particularly with longer contexts, which are critical for many applications involving AI-driven natural language…

  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlocking LLM training efficiency with Trillium — a performance analysis

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/trillium-mlperf-41-training-benchmarks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlocking LLM training efficiency with Trillium — a performance analysis Feedly Summary: Rapidly evolving generative AI models place unprecedented demands on the performance and efficiency of hardware accelerators. Last month, we launched our sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Trillium, to address the demands of next-generation models. Trillium is…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Binary vector embeddings are so cool

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/11/binary-vector-embeddings/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Binary vector embeddings are so cool Feedly Summary: Binary vector embeddings are so cool Evan Schwartz: Vector embeddings by themselves are pretty neat. Binary quantized vector embeddings are extra impressive. In short, they can retain 95+% retrieval accuracy with 32x compression and ~25x retrieval speedup. It’s so…