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🎙️ Join Israel for a presentation on : 'Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets' arxiv.org/abs/2402.08015

📅 Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
⏰ Time: 4 PM UTC

🔗 Zoom Link: Available on Slack

Be there!🚀

#Masakhane #NLP

This is amazing! I was really hoping to see an LLM. I have so many questions about the LLM release announcement.
Is it open source? is it just a speech model as indicated in the video? will we the chkpts?
The announc. is like doing a baby's naming ceremony while still pregnant.

Llama-3-8b already dethroned?

The benchmarks look really good! Their 7b model is apparently significantly better Llama-3-8b!! 👀👀

Really excited to try this model out, hope it gets released soon!

It's interesting that 14B models are now called small size 😀.
We're in a for a ride!

Please find below our poster for LREC COLING 2024 2024. We are talking about open knowledge graphs like @Wikidata and how they can be useful for #NLProc and other fields.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.13186
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=yw6rzb…
#Open Wikimedia Foundation WikiResearch #Bibliometrics .

ANNOUNCEMENT 3 - Nigerian Multilingual Large Language Model

The launch of Nigeria’s first Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) through a partnership between Awarri, DataDotOrg, NITDA Nigeria and National Center for AI and Robotics, Nigeria..

The LLM will be trained on 5 low resource languages and…

Llama 3 is finally out 🔥🔥. Here are the 10 top tips you need to make $10,000 monthly with Llama3

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Introducing Meta Llama 3: the most capable openly available LLM to date.

Today we’re releasing 8B & 70B models that deliver on new capabilities such as improved reasoning and set a new state-of-the-art for models of their sizes.

Today's release includes the first two Llama 3…

Calling all AI experts, academics, industry professionals, and students passionate about AI! Join us at #indabaxNigeria2024 . Submit your works and state-of-the-art projects for poster sessions via the link below. Let's shape the future of AI together!

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We introduce LLM2Vec, a simple approach to transform any decoder-only LLM into a text encoder. We achieve SOTA performance on MTEB in the unsupervised and supervised category (among the models trained only on publicly available data). 🧵1/N

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.05961

Most people don't know that Lightning Studios offer:

- free persistent storage
- free persistent environments
- unlimited background execution
- VSCode, PyCharm, (any IDE) integration

Set up your Studio environment once and reuse it again any time 🤯🤯

FINALLY: a 3blue1brown video on Transformers

I’ll be making a presentation of our work on AccentFold at the Masakhane weekly meeting today. You should join in!!!

The crying reactions when we announced that we’ll be taking a break from our study sessions 😂

1/2 I started writing a book about my personal life and journey. I covered every aspect of my life and challenges driven by curiosity, pursue of knowledge, and defying the odds.

I share about the book content here & I would love to hear from you forms.gle/JHAvNPdKJx8ic2…

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