This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

The hardest part about finetuning is that people don't have labeled data. Today, @databricks.bsky.social introduced TAO, a new finetuning method that only needs inputs, no labels necessary. Best of all, it actually beats supervised finetuning on labeled data. www.databricks.com/blog/tao-usi...

Join @kumarde.bsky.social Bryan, and me in CSE tomorrow as we do Hot Ones for Academics. My normally spicy research takes will get even spicier

Excited to share our work with friends from MIT/Google on Learned Asynchronous Decoding! LLM responses often contain chunks of tokens that are semantically independent. What if we can train LLMs to identify such chunks and decode them in parallel, thereby speeding up inference? 1/N

We're probably a little too obsessed with zero-shot retrieval. If you have documents (you do), then you can generate synthetic data, and finetune your embedding. Blog post lead by @jacobianneuro.bsky.social shows how well this works in practice. www.databricks.com/blog/improvi...

In case it is not clear from my reposts, the Trump administration is engaged in an illegal AND unconstitutional to seize power over the federal government away from Congress and the courts. "Pausing" payment on the government's bills is just one part of it, but it is among the worst.

All the more convinced that the markets don't understand AI. Both the irrational hype and the irrational pessimism. DeepSeek is incredibly bullish for GPU sales...

Very excited that our Series J is complete. Especially thrilled to have our friends at Meta on board!

Gives a new meaning to "Infrastructure Week"

This is so bad

I wasn’t expecting a nazi salute on day 1 but here we are. I of course understand that due to the palm on heart there’s plausible deniability but we all understand the intent

Impressed by those able to talk about Deepseek right now.

Interesting Friday evening code drop from @rajammanabrolu.bsky.social and Brandon Cui at @databricks.bsky.social. That's all I'm allowed to say for now... github.com/databricks/c...

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🧵 Super proud to finally share this work I led last quarter - the @databricks.bsky.social Domain Intelligence Benchmark Suite (DIBS)! TL;DR: Academic benchmarks ≠ real performance and domain intelligence > general capabilities for enterprise tasks. 1/3

Databricks raises $10b Series J at $62b valuation, the largest venture round ever. www.databricks.com/company/news...

The world needs data intelligence, and @databricks.bsky.social is delivering. Thank you to the investors who continue to support us on this journey. 🧱🧱🧱 www.databricks.com/company/news...

Reflections on NeurIPS: There's always a big theme people seem to be preoccupied with. This year, it was the continuation of scaling/progress. Will it continue? What will the next generation of models hold? I even got to sass Dylan Patel (not on bsky) over it. Here are my personal thoughts 🧵

We just released the Databricks synthetic evals SDK! 🎉 We’ve found that synthesizing evals is a great way to hill climb your AI system before you’re able to get labels from domain experts. We’ve also recently release a new diff UI that lets you both qualitatively and quantitatively view results!

Interested in massively reducing the toil of code maintenance? Permanence AI is at #NeurIPS2024 this week! Tyler Holloway and Ethan Elenberg will be presenting work at the ML For Systems workshop, and our Founder/CEO Joseph Hackman is attending the conference as well. Let's catch up! #AI #ML

See you at NeurIPS! I'll be there Tuesday to Friday. Find me at the @databricks.bsky.social booth at the expo.

Checking some great work my team did on continued pretraining of LLMs!

I wrote some thoughts on how to build good LM benchmarks: ofir.io/How-to-Build...

1/5 Earlier this year, I joined @datologyai.com to give wings to the data research I had been doing in academia. Today, I am absolutely thrilled to share what we’ve been working on! Techvember Ep 2: How we made the #1 LLM Pre-training Data Recipe. Blog: 👉 tinyurl.com/best-llm-data 🧵

Mat is not on 🦋—posting on his behalf! It's time to revisit common assumptions in IR! Embeddings have improved drastically, but mainstream IR evals have stagnated since MSMARCO + BEIR. We ask: on private or tricky IR tasks, are rerankers better? Surely, reranking many docs is best?

Incredibly excited for the team at @datologyai.bsky.social for huge progress on data efficiency for CLIP model training. I'm a big fan of lines that go up and to the left, and this is a really substantial improvement.

Hi AI friends - I'm trying to find everyone again. Please let me know if you're here so I can follow you!

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