Reka Core at #7 on Chatbot Arena! 💪 Congratulations to this amazing team for punching SO far above its weight.

Thrilled to double down on DatologyAI and to welcome Felicis to the party. Congratulations Ari Morcos, Matthew Leavitt, Bogdan Gaza and team!

It's #ICLR2024 time and there’s some cool data work being presented at the conference.

In case you missed it, here’s a #DatologyDigest of our favorite data work from Day 1 of Posters.

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At Snowflake , we are on a mission to bring AI innovation to the enterprise with lightspeed.

So excited that #SnowflakeCortex is now generally available to our customers! And we also added easy access to the latest industry-leading AI models #RekaCore Reka and #Llama3 …

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~38% of S&P 500 companies talked about AI.

~13% actually were able to report value.

We used Hebbia to analyze every earnings call this season. Here’s who is walking the walk…and who’s all talk 👇

Everyone in AI today is talking about (and struggling with) model evaluations. It is a fundamental unsolved problem.

Reka just published an important paper with creative new thinking on the topic. Awesome work - well worth a read:

publications.reka.ai/reka-vibe-eval…

Inside Out is the best Pixar movie ever made. I will die on this hill.

The most impactful sci-fi stories I've ever read and you should read too:

1) Starmaker and Last and First Men by Olaf Stapleton

Perhaps the most epic stories of all time told by the father of the science fiction genre himself.

Starmaker traces the history and meaning of…

In AI research there is tremendous value in intuitions on what makes things work. In fact, this skill is what makes “yolo runs” successful, and can accelerate your team tremendously.

However, there’s no track record on how good someone’s intuition is. A fun way to do this is…

kinda wild that 21b flash shares same rank as Mistral large on LMsys.

🚀 We're excited to share the technical report of Pegasus-1, our 17B-parameter VLM, setting new benchmarks in video understanding.

It surpasses larger models like Gemini Pro and Ultra in video conversation, QA, summarization, and temporal understanding.

bit.ly/pegasus-1-tech…

I knew Reka should be great, but it’s still better than what I expected.
Reka is now absolutely one of the top LLM players. Note this startup is only 1 year old!!!
See the short author list of the technical report. What an amazing achievement for such a small and talent group.…

Snowflake and Reka are at the forefront of AI innovation. We’re excited to offer the state-of-the-art AI capabilities, all from within Snowflake’s built-in security and governance.

forbes.com/lists/ai50/

Congratulations to cohere, Hebbia and Waabi for making Forbes’ AI50 list for 2024!

It was a lot of fun serving as a judge again this year. Amazing set of companies.

Repeat after me: data >>>>>> architecture.

Given enough quality data, many different architectures can achieve comparable performance. The secret sauce was, is, and remains the data, not the model.

reka core MMLU predictions / expectations

The tragic earthquake this week in Taiwan could have had a ripple effect around the globe if it shutdown world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, TSMC. @_robtoews warned of this single point of failure in his 2023 TEDAI Talk: ted.com/talks/rob_toew…