Alex Volkov

Host of #ThursdAI space, newsletter and podcast. AI Evangelist at Weights & Biases

Podcast

The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl

Dec 8, 2023

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49 min read

The Busy Person's Intro to Finetuning & Open Source AI - Wing Lian, Axolotl

On Teknium and the Nous Research SF meetup, creating the most popular finetuning library, and taking research from papers to tools - from QLoRA to Mamba State Space Models - in days.

Latent.Space, +2

Podcast

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

Nov 7, 2023

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118 min read

AGI is Being Achieved Incrementally (OpenAI DevDay w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Jim Fan, Raza Habib, Shreya Rajpal, Rahul Ligma, et al)

We summon all friends of the pod, and past and future guests including leaders from Nvidia, Zapier, HumanLoop, Weights and Biases, MultiOn, Guardrails, Bloop.ai, Julius AI to process what happened.

Raza Habib, +4

Podcast

Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)

Jul 19, 2023

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64 min read

Llama 2: The New Open LLM SOTA (ft. Nathan Lambert, Matt Bornstein, Anton Troynikov, Russell Kaplan, Whole Mars Catalog et al.)

>2000 AI Engineers joined our emergency Space with Simon Willison and Alex Volkov. Discussing datasets, benchmarks, scaling laws, kremlinology, and predictions. Come for the Llama, stay for the drama!

Latent.Space, +5

Podcast

Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)

Jul 10, 2023

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115 min read

Code Interpreter == GPT 4.5 (w/ Simon Willison, Alex Volkov, Aravind Srinivas, Alex Graveley, et al.)

Code Augmented Inference is All You Need? How ChatGPT's new Code Interpreter model represents a 1000x capabilities leap thru spending more time writing code. Plus: Simon, Alex, and >10k AI Engineers!

Latent.Space, +2

Podcast

Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)

Jun 14, 2023

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71 min read

Emergency Pod: OpenAI's new Functions API, 75% Price Drop, 4x Context Length (w/ Alex Volkov, Simon Willison, Riley Goodside, Joshua Lochner, Stefania Druga, Eric Elliott, Mayo Oshin et al)

1400 Leading AI Engineers from Scale, Microsoft, Pinecone, Huggingface and more convene to discuss the June 2023 OpenAI updates and the emerging Code x LLM paradigms. Plus: Recursive Function Agents!

Riley Goodside, +3