Rami's Readings #86 - Betas, FRED, and WIPO Global Innovation Index

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #86 - 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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I was traveling this week, so the newsletter is shorter than usual. I am back home now. Enjoy!

🤖 AI Reads

microsoft/BitNet: Framework for 1-bit Large Language Models

Notes: From Microsoft Research (not my organization). Read the technical report.

Cohere for AI Releases Aya Expanse

Notes: State-of-the-art multilingual model from the Cohere team (Go Canada!)

Cisco Launches $1B Global AI Investment Fund

Notes: $$$. Quite an impressive statement from Cisco - although a tad behind the rest.

💼 Business Reads

Betas by Sector (US)

Notes: A regularly updated list of Betas by Sector from Professor Damodaran of NYU.

Federal Reserve Economic Data

Notes: Reviewing the daily data releases on FRED is a great way to get a broad view of the US economy.

WIPO Global Innovation Index

Notes: Switzerland and Sweden beat out the US. The index is fairly complex and covers quite a few things - it’s worth looking at the composition and the methodology.

American Productivity Still Leads the World

Notes: Interesting article from the Economist, worth a read. Broadly, I agree with the article.

Signing off from Redmond.