Rami's Readings #72 - Mistral AI & Nvidia 🚀🔥

The latest on AI, LLMs, Nvidia, Mistral AI, Edge AI, China, India, NYC, Japanese Real Estate, and more.

Jul 22, 2024

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #72 - 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.

Quite an eventful week! A software update brought down a chunk of the world’s critical business systems resulting in scams, speculation, forcing incredible amounts of manual labor & remediation, and quick tools built to fix it. Here are reads that may have been missed:

🤖 AI Reads

Mistral Announces Mathstral and Codestral Mamba

Notes: Custom models for math and code generation.

Nvidia Partners with Mistral for Mistral NeMo 12B

Notes: Mistral AI is on fire! Try out the instruct model.

ChatQA 2: Bridging the Gap to Proprietary LLMs in Long Context and RAG Capabilities

Notes: Nvidia announced a new model based on Llama 3 that matches GPT-4 Turbo.

A Survey of Prompt Engineering Methods in Large Language Models for Different NLP Tasks

Notes: From NYU. The taxonomy diagram on page 12 is useful.

Salesforce Releases xLAM-1b and xLAM-7B

Notes: A 1B and 7B model for function calling. Non-commercial use only.

YouTube-SL-25: A Large-Scale, Open-Domain Multilingual Sign Language Parallel Corpus

Notes: New multilingual sign language data set.

WebGPU on Safari Enabling LLMs in iPhone Browsers

Notes: Edge AI is advancing thanks to fundamental browser developments.

💼 Business Reads

China’s Economy Is in Trouble. Xi Jinping Has Other Priorities v.s. Xi Jinping’s Great Economic Rewiring Is Cushioning China’s Slowdown

Notes: Two opposing perspectives published on the same day.

Apple’s India Sales Surge 33% to Record in Shift From China

Notes: This will likely start to influence product development decisions in the near-term.

You Can Buy This $5,500 House in Japan—and There Are Millions More Like It

Notes: Akiya-Mart.com is the listings site. It seems most of the content is AI generated. Translating listings across languages is a great use-case for LLMs. Browsing through this site makes me miss Tokyo and Japan even more.

white-leafed trees — Photo by Edward Ma on Unsplash

A Few Weeks with the Daylight DC-1 Tablet: Rethinking Screen Time

Notes: Price point is too high, but a promising device.

Supreme Court: Bar Exam Will No Longer Be Required to Become Attorney in Washington State

Notes: What do you think about this?

The best and brightest don’t want to stay in Canada. I should know: I’m one of the few in my engineering class who did.

The Potential of a 'Devil Wears Prada' Sequel

Business of Fashion recently asked me to contribute an opinion piece about the potential of a Devil Wears Prada sequel. Quite often, IP in the entertainment industry is a big eye roll (see: Twisters), but sometimes it works spectacularly (see: Inside Out 2…

5 months ago · 77 likes · 6 comments · Amy Odell

Signing off from Redmond.