Max Dunhill

Senior Digital Natives Specialist @ Oracle. LLMs, Ironman, Meditation & Pythonista. Opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle

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The next generation of OCI Compute Shapes, built on Acceleron, expands customer choice across AMD, Intel, and Ampere, with shapes designed for different workload needs. https://t.co/vcf0SHhYQm

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.@Oracle has announced plans for an #AI-companion to help developers rapidly program apps based on Java, SQL and #OCI. https://t.co/DMEFAFIIey

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RT @jonathanhershon: We created Pathway AI to solve a problem.

We were tired of watching clinician friends try (and fail) to sort through…

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Oracle is excited to expand its partnership with @Microsoft to meet growing global demand for Oracle Database@Azure. https://t.co/59nxYmgvvD #CloudWorld

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Join Oracle's Greg Pavlik to learn how generative #AI is changing the way businesses drive growth and modernization. Register now: https://t.co/C5oXbj79D7

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Don't miss #CloudWorld Tour London! Register now for this complimentary, one-day event: https://t.co/eiEbtnPz6s

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#OCI #GenerativeAI service is now generally available, with the choice of models from #Cohere and #Meta in the cloud and on-premises. Get the details: https://t.co/qKXoMQrJB1 @OracleCloud

[Omar Sanseviero @osanseviero]

The ML ecosystem in France is on fire🔥 It has amazing talent and resources. Here are 10 facts you might not know:

1. There are great research labs - from @MistralAI and @kyutai_labs to large ones from @AIatMeta and @GoogleDeepMind. The Llama 2 and CodeLlama authors are based in France!
2. Did you know sklearn is maintained by @Inria (a top national research institution).
3. Companies such as @OVHcloud and @Scaleway are European leads in computing and hosting.
4. There is the Jean Zay supercomputer with 28 petaflops, where @BigscienceW Bloom was trained.
5. @huggingface has its largest office there🤗.
6. There is @joinstationf, the world's largest startup campus with 1k+ startups, and 42, a very interesting CS school.
7. It has top CS universities. Maybe they don't have international renown or prestige and they don't invest as much in marketing, but they are really top, and their alumni are really, really strong.
8. A thriving startup ecosystem, @MithrilSecurity @photoroom_app @giskard_ai ChainLit @zama_fhe and many others.
9. Unlike SF, it's not in a tech bubble. E.g., the fashion industry is very strong. There are many art collectives. A good example of the power of this is Obvious Art (https://t.co/8zBT5Thzxl), a collective of researchers and artists working with ML.
10. It's very well located in Europe; quick train ride away from other tech hubs such as London, Barcelona, or Zurich, as well as strong universities (EPFL, ETH, UK unis, etc).

[Far El @far__el]

So Mistral prohibits you from using their models to train or improve other models or compete against them........... I thought they were fully open......

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.@Oracle has been named a Leader in the 2023 @Gartner_inc Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services! Learn more: https://t.co/VncI08mITr

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See you at #NeurIPS! Make sure to stop by booth #503 to speak to @Oracle and @nvidia AI/ML experts. And don’t forget to join Dr. Sanjay Basu, Senior Director of AI/ML Cloud Engineering for a session about Augmenting PromptOPS with Partner Products. https://t.co/4iOP8M1pPo

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How does @RedBullRacing drive success on the track while bringing fans closer to the sport? Watch the latest episode of Built to Win to find out: https://t.co/npEx862Jof

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See you at #Supercomputing23! Make sure to stop by booth #937 to speak to Oracle AI/ML experts. And don’t forget to join Dr. Kevin Jorissen, Distinguished HPC Architect for a deep dive on OCI Supercluster for AI/ML training at scale. https://t.co/Us2iYx3SFy

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Learn what's new with #mysql and MySQL HeatWave for OLTP, OLAP, ML, and Lakehouse. Get tips for developers, performance and HA. Hear from other customers. Meet fellow dolphins in London!
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Assumption is finetuning will require a lot of data or that models smaller than GPT3.5 won’t be effective so not trying. Consequences: increased cost and latency, reliance on models larger than needed and not benefiting from proprietary data

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Thank you Jakub Zavrel Gabriel Mayrink and the rest of the Zeta Alpha for a super informative Transformers at Work event last Friday here in Amsterdam.

Key takeaways
-Embedding correct authority of a document in a vector an open challenge. In Retrieval Augmented Generation, how

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is hard, because of how subjective it can be
-Prompt engineering still an art. Small changes in prompt have big effect on output
-Because of complex interdependencies between rows in a table, SQL is its own modality, SQL is not “just text”
-Don’t underestimate finetuning.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

"Are LLMs the last invention we need to make?" – I am going to give a keynote at Aleph Alpha's AGI Summer Talks, July 26, 14:00 – 20:00 CET
Venue: DAI, Sofienstraße 12, 69115 Heidelberg
Registration/Agenda: https://t.co/1kLFKLNYUb

[Tivadar Danka @TivadarDanka]

I asked Salvador Dali to imagine some of the most beautiful mathematical theorems in his breathtaking paintings. (Or maybe it was Midjourney, in the style of Dali.)

Here are the results:

1. "The set of real numbers is uncountably infinite."