Issue 27 13th November 2023

Highlights

New models and developer products announced at DevDay

GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more.

Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform

GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.

Come build with us: Microsoft and OpenAI partnership unveils new AI opportunities | The Microsoft Cloud Blog

Read the announcements from OpenAI’s first DevDay event and learn about the opportunities Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership presents for AI builders.

Introducing GPTs

You can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.

Video

Join Ralph, a lead developer and cloud solution architect, as he discusses the future of AI, comparing its potential ubiquity to smartphones. He shares his journey in AI, from IoT to customer UI, and talks about its exciting yet daunting nature. Tune in for a quick yet insightful dive into the world of AI with Ralph.

Articles

Nvidia to release three new AI chips for China after US restrictions – report

Reports come weeks after US blocked Nvidia from selling two high-end AI chips and a top gaming chip to Chinese firms Nvidia is planning to release three new chips for China, according to local media reports, weeks after the US blocked it from selling two high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips and one of its top gaming chips to Chinese firms. Nvidia could announce the chips – the HGX H20, L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe – as soon as 16 November, the Star Market Daily news outlet reported, citing people familiar with the matter Continue reading...

OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 API, new text-to-speech models

OpenAI launched a slew of new APIs during its first-ever developer day. DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image model, is now available via an API after first coming to ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Similar to the previous version of DALL-E, the API incorporates built-in moderation to help protect against misuse, OpenAI says.

Introducing AutoGen

Enabling LLM-powered agents to cooperate

Fine-tuning GPT3.5-turbo based on 140k slack messages

Fine-tuning GPT3.5-turbo based on 140k slack messages Ross Lazerowitz spent $83.20 creating a fine-tuned GPT-3.5 turbo model based on 140,000 of his Slack messages (10,399,747 tokens), massaged into a JSONL file suitable for use with the OpenAI fine-tuning API.

Microsoft partners with VCs to give startups free AI chip access

In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” resources from its Azure cloud for developing AI models. Microsoft today announced it’s updating its startup program, Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, to include a no-cost Azure AI infrastructure option for “high-end,” Nvidia-based GPU virtual […]

Efficient Transformer Inference with Statically Structured Sparse Attention

Efficient Transformer Inference with Statically Structured Sparse Attention Self-attention matrices of Transformers are often highly sparse because the relevant context of each token is typically limited to just a few other tokens in the sequence. Compared to a dense baseline, we achieve 56.6% reduction in energy consumption, 58.9% performance improvement with <1% accuracy loss and 2.6% area overhead. sdai Tue, 11/07/2023 - 19:19

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