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Meta unveils a new large language model that can run on a single GPU
LLaMA-13B reportedly outperforms ChatGPT-like tech despite being 10x smaller.
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On Friday, Meta announced a new AI-powered large language model (LLM) called LLaMA-13B that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s GPT-3 model despite being “10x smaller.” Smaller-sized AI models could lead to running ChatGPT-style language assistants locally on devices such as PCs and smartphones. It’s part of a new family of language models called “Large Language Model Meta AI,” or LLAMA for short.
The LLaMA collection of language models range from 7 billion to 65 billion parameters in size. By comparison, OpenAI’s GPT-3 model—the foundational model behind ChatGPT—has 175 billion parameters.
Meta trained its LLaMA models using publicly available datasets, such as Common Crawl, Wikipedia, and C4, which means the firm can potentially release the model and the weights open source. That’s a dramatic new development in an industry where, up until now, the Big Tech players in the AI race have kept their most powerful AI technology to themselves.
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Schedule: When Will Episode 1 Land on Disney Plus? – CNET
Grogu and Mando make their Star Wars streaming return in just a few days.
Grogu and Mando make their Star Wars streaming return in just a few days.
More People Should Watch This Unusual Netflix Sci-Fi Miniseries – CNET
Check out Jonah Hill and Emma Stone in Maniac, a weird, sad yet ultimately uplifting miniseries.
Check out Jonah Hill and Emma Stone in Maniac, a weird, sad yet ultimately uplifting miniseries.
The 40 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now
From Physical: 100 to Wednesday, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.
From Physical: 100 to Wednesday, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.
The 11 Best Amazon Prime Movies Right Now
From Shotgun Wedding to Licorice Pizza, these are the best films available on the streamer.
From Shotgun Wedding to Licorice Pizza, these are the best films available on the streamer.
The 25 Best Amazon Prime Shows Right Now
From The Underground Railroad to Rings of Power, these are our picks for what you should be watching on the streamer.
From The Underground Railroad to Rings of Power, these are our picks for what you should be watching on the streamer.
12 Best Foods for a Healthy Brain and Better Memory – CNET
These foods will help you maintain a healthy brain and may even prevent conditions like dementia.
These foods will help you maintain a healthy brain and may even prevent conditions like dementia.
The 35 Best Movies on Netflix This Week
From Call Me Chihiro to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.
From Call Me Chihiro to Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.
Reimagined Jet Ski Brings EVs To the Beach
Cars aren’t the only conveyances being transformed by electricity. Along with electric motorcycles and snowmobiles, personal watercraft are floating better ways to coexist with nature and neighbors. This new breed of machines brings requisite thrills to the Great Outdoors, but without fouling the atmosphere or disturbing the peace with an internal-combustion racket. From a report: The latest comes from Florida-based Pelagion, whose founder and chief executive, engineer Jamie Schlinkmann, was inspired by childhood adventures on a watersports icon: A 1973 Kawasaki Jet Ski. Schlinkmann’s machine, just the 213th ever built, is still one of his prized possessions. His company’s Pelagion HydroBlade is an ingenious mash-up of classic stand-up Jet Skis and modern surfboard-style “eFoils.” Those electric-powered boards had a real breakthrough in 2020 when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was spotted sailing over Hawaiian waters on one model. The metaverse may spring to mind the first time you see an eFoil, with its rider seeming to fly above the waves on a magic carpet. Naturally, there’s no magic, only hydrodynamics. Hydrofoils work like an airplane wing, only underwater: An aerodynamic wing creates high and low pressure areas as it slices through water, generating lift with precious little drag. Add an electric motor and propeller to create thrust and you’ve got a hydrofoil that doesn’t require surf waves, a kite, or tow boat to generate power.
There’s only one problem: Powered or not, a hydrofoil takes some practice and patience to learn to ride in a standing position, especially for people with no surfing or wakeboarding experience, or so-so balance skills. To solve that, Schlinkmann’s invention adds a boom-mounted canard and rudder ahead of the rider to keep the craft airborne and steady without a rider having to constantly expend energy and adjust body position. Add a trusty set of handlebars, says Schlinkmann, and the HydroBlade handles more like a vehicle with which most of us are familiar: a bicycle. Making the experience somewhat like riding a bike, he says, helps ease the intimidation factor and boost appeal for people of all ages and abilities. […] The design began to take shape around 2020. Schlinkmann pulled the engine and other ICE guts from his old Jet Ski and studied how he could make it electric. He realized a conventional electric Jet Ski might only have a 15- or 20-minute runtime on a single charge, which wasn’t good enough. But after riding a few eFoils, the idea came together. For the HydroBlade, a pair of permanent-magnet radial-flux motors drive dual propellers at a peak 16 kilowatts (21 horsepower). They’re fed by two battery packs, with a combined 600 cylindrical 2170 NCM cells and a total 11 kilowatt-hours of energy — about eight to 10 times the capacity onboard a typical eFoil. A separate 1.6-kW charger can refill batteries in about 4 hours.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Cars aren’t the only conveyances being transformed by electricity. Along with electric motorcycles and snowmobiles, personal watercraft are floating better ways to coexist with nature and neighbors. This new breed of machines brings requisite thrills to the Great Outdoors, but without fouling the atmosphere or disturbing the peace with an internal-combustion racket. From a report: The latest comes from Florida-based Pelagion, whose founder and chief executive, engineer Jamie Schlinkmann, was inspired by childhood adventures on a watersports icon: A 1973 Kawasaki Jet Ski. Schlinkmann’s machine, just the 213th ever built, is still one of his prized possessions. His company’s Pelagion HydroBlade is an ingenious mash-up of classic stand-up Jet Skis and modern surfboard-style “eFoils.” Those electric-powered boards had a real breakthrough in 2020 when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was spotted sailing over Hawaiian waters on one model. The metaverse may spring to mind the first time you see an eFoil, with its rider seeming to fly above the waves on a magic carpet. Naturally, there’s no magic, only hydrodynamics. Hydrofoils work like an airplane wing, only underwater: An aerodynamic wing creates high and low pressure areas as it slices through water, generating lift with precious little drag. Add an electric motor and propeller to create thrust and you’ve got a hydrofoil that doesn’t require surf waves, a kite, or tow boat to generate power.
There’s only one problem: Powered or not, a hydrofoil takes some practice and patience to learn to ride in a standing position, especially for people with no surfing or wakeboarding experience, or so-so balance skills. To solve that, Schlinkmann’s invention adds a boom-mounted canard and rudder ahead of the rider to keep the craft airborne and steady without a rider having to constantly expend energy and adjust body position. Add a trusty set of handlebars, says Schlinkmann, and the HydroBlade handles more like a vehicle with which most of us are familiar: a bicycle. Making the experience somewhat like riding a bike, he says, helps ease the intimidation factor and boost appeal for people of all ages and abilities. […] The design began to take shape around 2020. Schlinkmann pulled the engine and other ICE guts from his old Jet Ski and studied how he could make it electric. He realized a conventional electric Jet Ski might only have a 15- or 20-minute runtime on a single charge, which wasn’t good enough. But after riding a few eFoils, the idea came together. For the HydroBlade, a pair of permanent-magnet radial-flux motors drive dual propellers at a peak 16 kilowatts (21 horsepower). They’re fed by two battery packs, with a combined 600 cylindrical 2170 NCM cells and a total 11 kilowatt-hours of energy — about eight to 10 times the capacity onboard a typical eFoil. A separate 1.6-kW charger can refill batteries in about 4 hours.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.