Rami's Readings #84 - ✨OpenAI, Mistral, & Founder Mode

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #84 - 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

In this edition of the newsletter, I’m trying something new: a curated list of LLM, agent, and workflow orchestration libraries and platforms, accompanied by brief notes. Mostly focusing on libraries for building LLM-powered apps / systems. Sorted in no particular order. OSS: Open Source Software. This is not a sponsored post. If you found this useful, please fill in this poll. Your feedback is appreciated! Share

Pixtral 12B

Notes: Mistral AI released a paper about their Pixtral 12B model. The model was released a few weeks ago.

Astute RAG: Overcoming Imperfect Retrieval Augmentation and Knowledge Conflicts for Large Language Models

Notes: Interesting paper from Google Cloud.

Long-Context LLMs Meet RAG: Overcoming Challenges for Long Inputs in RAG

Notes: More from Google Cloud.

ToolGen: Unified Tool Retrieval and Calling via Generation

Notes: Neat.

Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots in search engines: a cross-sectional study on the quality and risks of drug information for patients

Notes: Great paper shared by a friend.

💼 Business Reads

WordPress.org’s Latest Move Involves Taking Control of a WP Engine Plugin

Notes: This move is insane - akin to Apple taking over an app on the App Store. If I ran a WordPress company, I would start ramping up my team on alternatives (like Gatsby). Read my previous comments.

Dubai’s Allure to Expats Is Weighing on City’s Infrastructure

Notes: Yes, this was confirmed by my colleagues and friends.

Signing off from Redmond.