Data Machina #262

Substack · 2 years ago · 11

This newsletter roundup covers multiple AI/ML developments including Mistral's NeMo 12B model released with NVIDIA, Stanford's TextGrad framework for improving compound AI systems through textual feedback, and Tencent's patch-level training technique that reduces computational costs to 0.5x for large language model training. The opening anecdote describes airport systems failures during an outage, speculating about future AI agent reliability. The curated links and resources span model optimization, embeddings, datasets, and MLOps infrastructure across the AI ecosystem.