Rami's Readings #68 - 📢 Anthropic & Apple Release New Models

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #68 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.

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🤖 AI Reads

Anthropic Released Claude Sonnet 3.5

Notes: Better than Claude 3 Opus on benchmarks but 2x faster and at the same cost.

Apple Embraces Open-Source AI with 20 Core ML Models on Hugging Face Platform

Notes: I shared last week that Apple released new Core ML Models. Apple has added a few more. #Edge-AI

PlanRAG: A Plan-then-Retrieval Augmented Generation for Generative Large Language Models as Decision Makers

Notes: Interesting paper from Korea.

OpenAI Acquires Rockset

Notes: In my talks at MIT and the Canadian Fintech Summit, I highlighted data readiness as one of the critical variables for successful Generative AI applications at scale. OpenAI gets this. Read the Bloomberg coverage.

Instruction Pre-Training: Language Models are Supervised Multitask Learners

Notes: Interesting paper from Microsoft Research (not my current organization, see my disclosure).

IMS Speech Synthesis Toolkit: Toucan

Notes: MIT-licensed and pure Python from the Institute for Natural Language Processing in Germany.

AI and Democracy

Notes: Bruce Schneier’s talk at the RSA Conference.

💼 Business Reads

Exodus of Millionaires, Study Shows

Notes: The trend continues with net gains to the UAE, Singapore, and the US.

🎨 Culture Reads

How To Host a Dinner Party

Notes: Great book from Corey Mintz. Expect more Apéro & Intellect events coming soon!

‘The White Lotus’ Gives Thailand a Tourism Boost Ahead of Third Season

Notes: Koh Samui 😍

My first sabbatical week ended with kayaking the Charles River alongside my MIT classmates. Paddle Boston was great!

Signing off from Montréal.