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Today's TechToks: The intern that sabotaged TikTok's company, Musk's LLM grows as a competititor, 'Daemon' in computing, Microsoft-OpenAI rift, Trending GitHub repositories, Fresh Product Picks, and much more!

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October 22, 2024

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Today's Picks🍒

  • 𝕏 Grok API by Musk’s startup, Celebrity Jet Tracking, Microsoft-OpenAI’s weakening partnership

  • 😈 Intern sabotaged AI training, origins of technology’s ‘Daemon’, AI chip smartphones

  • ☁️ From Google Engineering: Improving medical AI

  • 🚙 From Uber Engineering: Optimizing LLM training

🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories

  • ✅ VM monitoring

  • 🔒 Free Adobe alternatives

  • ✨ Easy JSON in C++

  • 🤹‍♂️ Learn Low Level Design

🔥 Products of the Week

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  • 😌 Drag and drop UI builder

  • 🗺️ Visualize geo data in a 3D map

  • ➕ 9 more products to learn your shortcuts, control data version, and more.

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Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today

Elon Musk’s xAI released an API enabling developers to integrate Grok models for text, code, and image generation. Pricing is $5 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, twice to thrice the cost for GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro. Here are Grok-2’s benchmarks from its Beta Release

The intern maliciously interfered with model training tasks and losses are rumored to be in tens of millions. Although ByteDance stated no commercial operations were affected -- as the model was a research project-- it acknowledged losses in computing power, claiming the rumors exaggerated in value.

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A powerful canvas to share ideas and build insights one block at a time, with easy export. Transition between thinking, writing, and sharing instant, without switching context

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GitHub trending repos of today

A modular, cross-platform Virtual Machine Monitor written in Rust, focused on its role in the OpenHCL paravisor project. It can function as a traditional VMM, and the project provides a comprehensive guide on how to run, build, and use OpenVMM

 What can you use this for? Monitor virtual machines, explore next-gen virtualization, and work with VMs in cross-platform teams

 

List of alternatives to popular Adobe software, providing free, open-source, and paid options for tasks like photo editing, vector graphics, animation, and more. It covers a wide range of applications and helps users find suitable replacements for their Adobe needs, catering to various budgets and requirements

 

What can you use this for? Discover free tools for creatives, meet open-source preferences, explore creative communities

A C++ library to work with JSON data in an intuitive syntax, with a single-header implementation that is extensively tested for reliability and performance. It supports a range of JSON-related features, including parsing, manipulation, serialization, and conversion to/from arbitrary C++ types

 

What can you use this for? Use JSON in C++, manipulate API responses, take advantage of C++ fast speed by turning data into it’s data types

 

Repos to learn something new  

Free resources on Low Level Design and Object Oriented Design. It covers fundamental OOP concepts, SOLID principles, design patterns, and UML diagrams. Provides a template to solve interview problems and links to relevant courses, and books to help you learn

 

What can you use this for? Prepare for interviews, review fundamental concepts, improve software design skills

👩🏽‍💻 Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

Google’s CT Foundation transforms complex Computed Tomography scans into smaller, simpler data that AI can quickly learn from. Over 70 million CT exams are conducted each year in the USA alone, but AI training with 3D medical imaging is typically unsatisfactory. This solution relies in making rich and concise embeddings from scans, which improved AI training . A Python notebook is available in Colab here

Uber optimizes LLM training using open-source models like Llama 2 and in-house fine-tuning. They leverage Kubernetes, Ray, and DeepSpeed to maximize GPU usage, improving tasks like Uber Eats recommendations and customer support while boosting scalability and reducing costs

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