"There’s ones you can lease, there’s open source ones. Don’t do it." Taylor emphasized the impracticality of developing new AI models unless one belongs to a major player in the industry.
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LaMDA was genuinely ChatGPT before ChatGPT. It was the first properly conversational LLM that was just incredible. And you know, everyone at Google had seen it and tried it.
"This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it, unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on."
Two recent product releases point to this trend: OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity's Comet browser. The ChatGPT Agent uses a basic browser to surf the web on behalf of users, while Comet takes it further by allowing language models to access logged-in sites and complete tasks for users. Both products have not yet achieved reliable performance and currently require expensive subscription access due to their high computing needs.
Hugging Face has launched its Reachy Mini robots, now available for order. Designed for AI developers, researchers, and enthusiasts, the robots offer an exciting opportunity to experiment with human-robot interaction and AI applications.
"I don't think we'll be able to figure it out in just a minute," Pasricha said. "We're gonna call the show there just for today," he added, apologizing for blowing off Hinge Health CEO Daniel Perez and their upcoming conversation.
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"The goal in the future is to keep carefully getting a lot of feedback like that from users, from the community, that's how we've always been building products at Hugging Face as an open source community platform."
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