Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (December 02, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for December 02, 2023 :</p>
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Show HN: 80% faster, 50% less memory, 0% loss of accuracy Llama finetuning
Summary: Unslothai's "unsloth" is an open-source project that offers 80% faster and 50% less memory usage for LLM finetuning. It uses OpenAI's Triton language and supports NVIDIA GPUs since 2018 with CUDA 7.5+. The project is compatible with Pytorch 2.1 and supports various Llama models. Unsloth also provides performance comparisons for different GPU setups and plans to support non-Llama models in the future.
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The Seamless Communication models
Summary: Meta Research has developed a family of AI models called Seamless Communication, aimed at removing language barriers through expressive, fast, and high-quality AI translation. The models include SeamlessExpressive, which preserves speech intricacies; SeamlessStreaming, offering near real-time translation with low latency; and SeamlessM4T v2, a foundational multilingual and multitask model. Meta is publicly releasing the full suite of models, prioritizing safety and responsibility in AI development.