#44

IPv4 not free, AI Unicorn, HoloTile, AI dreams, OpenAI models++, cost--;, Lumiere, ChromeAI, Zed, CrashGPT, Spatial Vacuuming, it isn't pee-en-gee, moondream1, remote-storage and more

Pushkar

and

Aashutosh

Jan 28, 2024

Welcome to the 44th edition!
A lot happened this week, so we did cut some stuff from other sections for now.

🎧 Podcast version of this edition is available here → #44 | Recast

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What’s happening 📰

🚨 Starting Feb 1st, AWS will start charging $0.05/hr for Public IPv4 addresses. This is part of the movement to IPv6.
You see there are only ~4.3B possible IPv4 addresses and we are running out of them, this move is aimed more or less at making sure people migrate to IPv6 (we have ~3.4×10³⁸of them) the hard way.
Supabase wrote a good article on it titled “Brace yourself, IPv6 is coming”. So, yeah to be ahead of the curve, already start migration we’d suggest.
🚶 Disney Unveils the HoloTile Floor which is the world’s first multi-person, omnidirectional, modular, expandable, treadmill floor. One can walk infinitely in any direction on it and heck, it even supports multiple people. Combine it with a VR headset and we are one step closer to building a full-fledged Holodeck. Crazy times.1
📉 Last week, PayPal’s CEO announced that they’ll announce something exciting that’ll shock the world in their upcoming event, and that boosted their stock by %10. Later this week, when they finally announced a few “AI-powered” features but sadly most of them were just catching up with Stripe and others. This pissed off people it seems & the stock tanked 8% post announcement. 🤣
🚨 Industry Updates
- Riot Games laid off 11% of its workforce to make the business sustainable. But ofc with 6-month severance and other perks.
- YouTube fired ~100 employees.
- 🆕 Two Google DeepMind scientists are in talks to leave and form an AI startup in Paris.
💸 Dollar Digest
- 🗣️ ElevenLabs announced $80M in Series B at a valuation of $1.1B for its voice cloning tech.
- 🦄 Ola’s Krutrim AI raised $50M at a valuation of $1B, making it the fastest unicorn in the country, and also the first AI Unicorn in the country. They announced this on 🇮🇳 Republic Day. BTW, they launched the beta on Dec 14th, less than 2 months ago. 📈
- 💰 Qdrant, a vector DB company raised $28M in Series A to improve its Rust-based vector store.
✨ AI Digest
- ✨ Google goes bullish on AI
  - Chrome released 3 new AI features to prod last week. They magically organize your tabs, customize your theme using AI, and help to write/rephrase text in forms.
  - They showed off Lumiere, a space-time diffusion model for realistic AI videos. (fake movies on the way to your computers)
    Source: Google’s announcement post.
- 😴 PropheticAI released MORPHEUS-1, the world’s first multi-modal generative ultrasonic transformer designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams.
  The model is named after the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus. Beta users will be able to access it in Spring 2024.
  Source: Morpheus release video
- 🆕 This week, OpenAI wasn’t sitting idle like you and me. They released New embedding models and announced some API updates. How does it affect you?
  - 💪 If you’re using the text-embedding-ada-002 embeddings in your application, you may shift over to the newer text-embedding-3-small embeddings which perform better while keeping the cost 5x lower. Now that’s a sweet upgrade. They also released its bigger sibling text-embedding-3-large which is even more powerful.
  - 🤌 Storing all these embeddings in a vector store is surely not cheap. So the folks at OpenAI developed these newer embeddings in such a way that you can shorten them up by truncating values from the end without seeing a large dip in performance, even all the way down to 256 dimensions. Your DBA will thank you for doing this.
  - 🥱 New Turbo models gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 and gpt-4-0125-preview are released with cheaper pricing for the former and improved code generation plus “laziness” fixes for the latter.
    Oh, and you can now use gpt-4-turbo-preview as a model name in your API calls to always point to the latest GPT-4-Turbo model.
  - 🧐 They released the 007 of their Moderation model, text-moderation-007 which is more robust than the last version. But the fact that they did not release GPT-5 this time leaves us both shaken and stirred.
- 🪪 InstantID: Zero-shot identity-preserving generation in seconds. It will make sad things easy like “Taylor Swift's AI-generated images that are circulating on Twitter”.
- 🐘 AI4Bharat released Airavata, a Hindi Instruction-tuned LLM which was created by fine-tuning OpenHathi with diverse, instruction-tuned Hindi datasets. They even released these datasets to enable further research for IndicLLMs. Currently, Airavata supports only Hindi, and they plan to expand to all the 22 scheduled Indic languages.
🛠️ Developer Digest
- 🧑‍💻 Zed, the rust-based (so, blazingly fast) code editor, went open-source earlier this week.
  Their aim remains the same, they want to make the world’s most advanced code editor with a sustainable business model. They said, “Rather than selling you a proprietary editor, we'd much prefer to sell you services that seamlessly integrate with your editor”, which brings us to cool features it has like Channels, Calls, screen-share (smoothest we’ve used), and live code collab.
  one such debugging session with a friend demonstrated the use of all cool stuff in Zed.

What brings us to awe 😳

🧹 A user on Twitter showed “Spatial Vacuuming” using the Quest Controller and now I know exactly how to make the kids in your house help you with cleaning! Immersive Tech and Gamification, hell yeahhh!
😵‍💫 ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) crashes when you force it to think about useRalativeImagePath.
Source: article linked above

Today I(we) Learnt 📑

🍪 Just like Cookie and Set-Cookie methods, Cookie2 and Set-Cookie2 methods were proposed to restrict cookies to a list of ports.
It didn't get adopted majorly by browsers & was not that useful. So, it got deprecated pretty quickly as part of RFC 6265. (imagine if one Cookie can be so much of a pain in the arse for the internet, what would 2 have done to us :/)
👀 As per PNG Specs 1.2, PNG is pronounced “ping”. (not pee-en-gee)

🤝 You have read ~50% of Nibble, the following section brings tools out from the wild.

What we have been trying 🔖

📓 Rhoades: A GPT which is a journal analyzer cum performance coach, where you can journal your day and let Rhoades analyze and give your action items and a bonus Quote. (built by a friend, go give it a try).
🪙 LLM Tokenizer: A fully HF-compatible tokenizer in your browser. Use it to compare how different LLM tokenizers and their vocabularies work.
You can see how different tokenizers split the text differently | Source: Linked website.

Builders’ Nest 🛠️

💿 remote-storage: a library that combines local and remote storage for persistent data. (that’s a real problem we face, this will allow sharing localStorage across browsers)
✨ KeepItShot: leveraging AI to give your screenshot an apt name based on the content. E.g.: “Screenshot 2024-01-26 at 03.14.15 AM” → “Contour of Pringles Curve Hyperbola”. [will launch on 29th]
🌔 moondream1: A tiny 1.6B parameter vision language model that you can run anywhere and beats larger models. Check it out on HuggingFace Spaces!
These benchmarks show that it performs on par and even better than larger models

Meme of the week 😌

Off-topic reads/watches 🧗

📲 Push Notifications - What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often: Sending Push Notifications is walking on a tightrope for app developers. You want engagement but do not want to push the users to the brink of an unsub/uninstall. They discuss the various push techniques you may employ to improve your communications. Also, a heads-up for some interesting equations in this article that would pop up when you least expect them. [20 mins]
🚶🏻 Stumbling in the dark by Seth: explains how stumbling in the dark is part of learning. [1 min]
🙌 Hell Yeah or No: A simple and profound mental model when feeling overwhelmed. If you feel anything less than “hell yeah!” about something, just say no. [1 min]

Wisdom Bits 👀

“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
― Viktor Frankl

Wallpaper of the week 🌁

🌌 Link to Wallpaper → wow.nibbles.dev
→ If you want to access old wallpapers, just change the number in the final URL.

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Refer a friend

Holo Tile inventor, Mr. Lanny Smoot, will be the first Disney employee besides Mr. Walt Disney to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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