Alibaba’s new LLM 🚀, SpaceX Successful Splash 💦, OpenAI New Decompose Methods 🧠

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🤗 The AI race: Alibaba unveils the multilingual Qwen2 LLM

🧠 OpenAI shares new methods to better decompose and understand language models

🚀 SpaceX's Super Heavy sucessfully splashes down in Gulf of Mexico

🍿 Cara social media gains 610k users in a week with policies protecting artists against non-consensual AI data training

😺 From GithHub Engineering Blog: reducing testing time by 60% for iOS apps

Github Trending Repositories

😎 Mesop: Python-based UI framework that allows you to rapidly build web apps like demos and internal apps

☝ Huly Platform: All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)

🔷 VScode: where Microsoft develops the Visual Studio Code product together with the community.

𓃹 Directus: The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.

Product Picks

🌀 FlowMapp: Visual website planning in the most powerful way

👶 Sleepytales: Have AI read and write personalized bedtime stories

🐝 BeeDone: Gamified AI to become more productive

🎯 Databutton: Let AI build your next SaaS application

🤯 Game Changers

The most impactful articles of the day

Qwen2 LLM Released

Alibaba unveiled the Qwen2 LLM, with 5 model sizes from 0.49B to 72.71B parameters, trained on 28 languages, and extended context length support up to 128K tokens. Highlighting benchmarks in coding, mathematics, safety, and responsibility, the models are now publicly available in ModelScope and Hugging Face— where you can try the 72B prompt without login.

✨ "Too long don't README"

GitHub trending repos of today

google/mesop

Mesop is a Python-based UI framework that allows you to rapidly build web apps like demos and internal apps, with an intuitive UI for novices, frictionless developer workflows, and flexible customization for delightful demos, without writing JavaScript/CSS/HTML. You can try Mesop on Colab.

hcengineering/platform

The Huly Platform is a robust framework designed to accelerate the development of business applications, such as CRM systems, and includes several applications like Chat, Project Management, CRM, HRM, and ATS. It supports self-hosting, development mode, and provides detailed instructions for installation, build and run, testing, and package publishing.

microsoft/vscode

The open-source code for Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor by Microsoft. The repository allows for contributing to the project through submitting bugs, feature requests, reviewing code changes, and contributing directly to the codebase, and includes related projects, bundled extensions, and a development container setup.

directus/directus

Directus is an open-source, self-hosted, API-driven headless CMS and application framework that allows you to manage content and build custom applications with ease, featuring a powerful admin dashboard, flexible API, and robust security.

📱 Product Picks

Curated products from Product Hunt

FlowMapp 3.0

✨ Ultimate and AI driven tool for the website planning through precise UX quality enhancement: design experience, build sitemaps, plan user flows and conversion maps, gather content.

Sleepytales

AI app that reads and writes personalized bedtime stories for children and adults. Customize each story with names, favorite characters, and themes. Enjoy lifelike narration by realistic voice actors, making every story a unique and immersive experience.

BeeDone

Maximize focus, prioritize effortlessly, build habit, maintain routine and conquer goals your AI-powered productivity playground.

Databutton

Our goal is to help anyone with a SaaS business idea succeed in launching their app. Databutton's AI developer builds the app you need, with state-of-the-art React frontends and Python backends, based on your natural language instructions.

🧐 Daily Picks

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Extracting concepts from GPT-4

OpenAI shares new methods to better understand how to make sense of the neural activity within language models. Showcasing a decomposition of GPT-4’s internal representations into 16 million 'features' (oft-interpretable patterns), they included a paper, code, and feature visualizations for further exploration.

From 40k to 650k users in a week: Cara, the anti-AI social media for artists

Cara is a new social media platform for artists that filters out generative images and refuses to host AI-generated work, aiming to tackle ethical issues linked to AI policies and data governance. It's a contrast to competitors like Meta's Instagram, where public posts can be used for model training — against many users' wishes, but only europeans can opt-out due to GDPR laws. Thus, Cara jumped from 40,000 to 650,000 users last week.

Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

SpaceX's Super Heavy rocket has successfully splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico after its test flight, landing in the Indian Ocean. It’s the fourth Starship test and the first one to reach splashdown.

Engineering Blogs

Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies

How GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps with new runner features

GitHub reduced testing time for iOS apps by 60% by leveraging Apple silicon on GitHub Actions macOS runners, breaking down the monolithic workflow into separate jobs for each module, and enabling parallel testing of 50 jobs per pull request. See more of GitHub Actions using runners here.