Originally published in The GitHub Blog, Sept 6, 2023. It took us three years to develop GitHub Copilot before we officially launched it to the general public. To go from idea to production, we followed three stages—find it, nail it, scale it—loosely based on the “Nail It, Then Scale It” framework for entrepreneurial product development. Here’s how
Originally published in The Verge, Sept 25, 2023. What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language? That’s the premise behind Spotify’s new AI-powered voice translation feature, which reproduces podcasts in other languages using...
Originally published in The Verge, Sept 20, 2023. Today let’s talk about an advance in Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, and how it addresses one of the most pressing problems with today’s chatbots: their tendency to make...
Originally published in Leigh Marie’s Newsletter, Sept 21, 2023. Or, I’m getting tired of market maps and am ready for some hotter takes. It’s been well over a year since I published my overview of large language models,...
Originally published in The Verge, Sept 20, 2023. Microsoft-owned GitHub is rolling out its AI-powered coding chatbot to more people. The company launched its Copilot Chat tool in public beta for business users in July, and on Wednesday,...
Originally published in together.ai, Sept 11, 2023. Large Language Models (LLMs) have changed the world. However, generating text with them can be slow and expensive. While methods like speculative decoding have been proposed to accelerate the generation...
Originally published in Pete Warden’s Blog, Nov 11, 2022. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal...
Originally published in Fast.AI, Sept 4, 2023. We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example....
Originally published in The Verge, Sept 7, 2023. Microsoft is telling customers it will assume legal responsibility if they get sued for copyright infringement while using the company’s AI Copilot services. In a blog post about an...
Originally posted in The Verge, Aug 24, 2023. Meta said Code Llama will make it easier to finish code. Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate...
