Rami's Readings #68 - 📢 Anthropic & Apple Release New Models
The latest on AI, LLMs, Anthropic Claude, Apple Core ML Models, RAG, Speech Synthesis, Chinese E-commerce, Millionaire Exodus, Hosting a Dinner Party, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #68 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
🤖 AI Reads
Anthropic Released Claude Sonnet 3.5
Notes: Better than Claude 3 Opus on benchmarks but 2x faster and at the same cost.
Apple Embraces Open-Source AI with 20 Core ML Models on Hugging Face Platform
Notes: I shared last week that Apple released new Core ML Models. Apple has added a few more. #Edge-AI
PlanRAG: A Plan-then-Retrieval Augmented Generation for Generative Large Language Models as Decision Makers
Notes: Interesting paper from Korea.
OpenAI Acquires Rockset
Notes: In my talks at MIT and the Canadian Fintech Summit, I highlighted data readiness as one of the critical variables for successful Generative AI applications at scale. OpenAI gets this. Read the Bloomberg coverage.
Instruction Pre-Training: Language Models are Supervised Multitask Learners
Notes: Interesting paper from Microsoft Research (not my current organization, see my disclosure).
IMS Speech Synthesis Toolkit: Toucan
Notes: MIT-licensed and pure Python from the Institute for Natural Language Processing in Germany.
AI and Democracy
Notes: Bruce Schneier’s talk at the RSA Conference.
💼 Business Reads
China’s Ecommerce Giants Splash Out to Jolt Wary Shoppers
Notes: I am dying to know what worked and what didn’t.
China and Britain Face an Exodus of Millionaires, Study Shows
Notes: The trend continues with net gains to the UAE, Singapore, and the US.
🎨 Culture Reads
How To Host a Dinner Party
Notes: Great book from Corey Mintz. Expect more Apéro & Intellect events coming soon!
'The White Lotus' Gives Thailand a Tourism Boost Ahead of Third Season
Notes: Koh Samui 😍
My first sabbatical week ended with kayaking the Charles River alongside my MIT classmates. Paddle Boston was great!
Signing off from Montréal.