June 4, 2024
May was a month of announcements: between Google, Apple, Microsoft, and OpenAI, there was much ado about—well, very little, in fact. It’s always seemed to me that big announcements steal attention that might otherwise go to projects that are less flashy but more deserving. (Or maybe I’m just becoming jaded.)
That’s not to say that nothing interesting happened. We’re seeing continued interest in small language models—small enough to run on cell phones (which have more processing power than the supercomputers of a few decades ago). We’ve wondered whether new programming languages make sense in the era of AI-generated code—but we saw Bend (for highly parallel code) and Jolie (for services), plus LuaX (a new Lua interpreter) and Faer (for high-performance numerics in Rust). And for web developers, someone has been using CSS Grid to typeset music. Programming of various sorts is very much alive.
Artificial Intelligence
- The first two parts of the three-part series What We Learned from Year of Building with LLMs, have been posted on O’Reilly Radar. The third part will be posted on June 6. This series is an wide-ranging collection of wisdom and experience that will be essential to anyone building AI applications.
- llama-fs is a filesystem based on Llama 3 that names and finds files for you. It’s a very interesting idea, though I’m not sure it’s one I would trust.
- MonsterGPT ...
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