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New multimodal model in town: Idefics2!

💪 Strong 8B-parameters model: often on par with open 30B counterparts.
🔓Open license: Apache 2.0.
🚀 Strong improvement over Idefics1: +12 points on VQAv2, +30 points on TextVQA while having 10x fewer parameters.
📚 Better data:…

Announcing the #ICLR2024 Invited Speakers:
blog.iclr.cc/2024/04/15/ann…

Kyunghyun Cho (Kyunghyun Cho)
Priya Donti (@priyald17)
Kate Downing (katedowninglaw.com)
Raia Hadsell (@RaiaHadsell)
Moritz Hardt (mrtz.org)
Devi Parikh (@deviparikh)
Jie Tang (@jietang)

After two good years at Microsoft Research AI4Science, I am very excited to announce that as of this month I have, together with Chad Edwards, co-founded a new startup in the field of molecular and materials discovery.

Introducing: Zephyr 141B-A35B 🥁

🔥Mixtral-8x22B fine-tune
🤯 Using DORPO: new alignment algorithm (no SFT, open )
🚀 With 7k instances of (open) data

Very strong IFEval, BBH, AGIEval... Enjoy! 🤗

hf.co/HuggingFaceH4/…

Come and join us within Naila Murray’s org who leads the foundational and exploratory research in Europe!

Apply at:
lnkd.in/eC3RaWND
lnkd.in/e5R5-QJr

AI at Meta AI at Meta Meta Open Source

Let the home style 🏡 cooking and stirring (alignment) begin! Meta AI at Meta ai.meta.com/blog/next-gene…

Our generative technology Imagen 2 can now create short, 4-second live images from a single prompt. 🖼

It’s available to use in @GoogleCloud’s #VertexAI platform. → dpmd.ai/43QZrOt #GoogleCloudNext

The 2024 Google PhD Fellowship awards is accepting student nominations here through May 8!

This program supports graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields as they pursue their PhD.

See details: research.google/programs-and-e…

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Gemma is expanding.... we just announced CodeGemma, a version of Gemma tuned for code generation. And bonus... Gemma is now bumped to v1.1, addressing lots of feedback we got.

Congrats Gemma team for one more amazing release!

developers.googleblog.com/2024/04/gemma-…

Announcing RecurrentGemma!
github.com/google-deepmin…

- A 2B model with open weights based on Griffin
- Replaces transformer with mix of gated linear recurrences and local attention
- Competitive with Gemma-2B on downstream evals
- Higher throughput when sampling long sequences

This! Open-weighted!

Happy Friday! New Gemma instruct model is out 🔥have a fun weekend! 🤗

huggingface.co/google/gemma-1…

This week was one of the most fun ever 😍

- Met Jonathan Frankle (DBRX), Sophia Yang, Ph.D. (Mistral) and Yann LeCun (🐐) in person
- Met super interesting people from the Llama team (@misovalko @thomasscialom) and collaborators (@christiankeller, Code Llama team, and more)
- Saw Sara Hooker…

Today, we’re introducing Command R+: a state-of-the-art RAG-optimized LLM designed to tackle enterprise-grade workloads and speak the languages of global business.

Our R-series model family is now available on Microsoft Azure, and coming soon to additional cloud providers.