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Top stories today:
- Google’s open weights Gemma 2 nears Microsoft’s Phi-3 on benchmarks
- Q1 GDP revised up from 1.3% to 1.4%
- OpenAI announces CriticGPT, model to help human trainers in RLHF
- ChatGPT web visits +16% MoM, +96% YoY to 2.9B in June
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All values as of 6 AM ET / 3 AM PT, other than S&P500 and NASDAQ close (4 PM ET / 1 PM PT).
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Correction: We reported yesterday that Amazon's +4% to $2T market cap was based on no news. In fact, the rise was connected to the report that Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like store. h/t to our reader FD.
1. Google’s open weights Gemma 2 nears Microsoft’s Phi-3 on benchmarks
Google curiously didn’t explicitly compare Gemma 2 with Phi-3 in their launch post:
Gemma 2 runs on a single NVIDIA H100.
Phi-3 continues to be the leading open weights small language model according to MMLU, having a 78.2 score
TBD: Human comparisons between the 2 models.
2. Q1 GDP revised up from 1.3% to 1.4%
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4. OpenAI announces CriticGPT, model to help human trainers spot mistakes during RLHF
Humans + CriticGPT provided more comprehensive critiques and hallucinated less often than just humans:
