Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals. 

The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent.

Why? 

Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article to explain his reasoning; the boys dissect: what the hell is going on?

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Open Source AI Is the Path Forward – Mark Zuckerberg

Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals.  The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent.
Why? 
Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article to explain his reasoning; the boys dissect: what the hell is going on?
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<li><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/">Open Source AI Is the Path Forward – Mark Zuckerberg</a> </li>
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Llama-ma-mazing!

Meta this week released the latest update to their LLM, Llama 3.1. It is ostensibly a "frontier model" on par with its OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rivals.  The difference i: anyone can download the model and the weights and run it, and build on it wherever and however they want, without paying Meta a cent.
Why? 
Glowed up Mark Zuckerberg wrote an article to explain his reasoning; the boys dissect: what the hell is going on?
Links
<ul>
<li><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/">Open Source AI Is the Path Forward – Mark Zuckerberg</a></li>
</ul>

Recently, the eponymous founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz went public in announcing their support for Trump in order to protect what they called "little tech" – as opposed to "big tech"

To them, little tech basically means startups, which they believe are under threat from "bad government policies". While big tech is trying to entrench it's advantage with regulatory capture, little tech just wants to party.

We discuss the new battlelines, and – crucially – tell you which team to support.

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The Little Tech Agenda – Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

Recently, the eponymous founders of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz went public in announcing their support for Trump in order to protect what they called "little tech" – as opposed to "big tech"
To them, little tech basically means startups, which they believe are under threat from "bad government policies". While big tech is trying to entrench it's advantage with regulatory capture, little tech just wants to party.
We discuss the new battlelines, and – crucially – tell you which team to support.
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<li><a href="https://a16z.com/the-little-tech-agenda/">The Little Tech Agenda – Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz</a></li>
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Into The Goldilocks Zone (PREVIEW)

You are no doubt aware that the world suffered a fairly significant IT outage at the end of last week, affecting everything from TV broadcasts to supermarkets and airports. Turns out it was because of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike releasing a thoroughly bung update to Windows machines.

In this ep, we talk about the incident, how susceptible the world is to single points of IT failure, and other assorted and sundry topics.

You are no doubt aware that the world suffered <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue">a fairly significant IT outage</a> at the end of last week, affecting everything from TV broadcasts to supermarkets and airports. Turns out it was because of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike releasing a thoroughly bung update to Windows machines.
In this ep, we talk about the incident, how susceptible the world is to single points of IT failure, and other assorted and sundry topics.

Llama-ma-mazing!

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