The Attention Mechanism with Andrew Mayne

A Good Guy with a Frontier Model

The Attention Mechanism with Andrew Mayne

Show Notes

Andrew and Justin discuss the Hugging Face breach, which saw an unreleased OpenAI model find its way into the company's systems during internal testing. They also discuss the launch of Opus 5, the ongoing progress made by Chinese models, and the crunch for compute as 10GW data center plans start to make some motion. Plus, a tribute to the late John C. Dvorak.

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro 01:23 - Hugging Face 15:45 - Chinese Models 26:01 - Opus 5 36:11 - 10GW Data Centers 52:29 - RIP John C. Dvorak Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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