Phind says its open-source coding AI is better than GPT-4
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August 28, 2023
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Top stories today:
- Phind says its open-source coding AI is better than GPT-4
- SpaceX's Crew-7 docks at International Space Station
- Evergrande stock -79% as trading resumes after 17 months
- Apple's suppliers are mostly in China but also India, Vietnam
- China likely to continue with moderate stimuli: survey
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1. Phind says its open-source coding AI is better than GPT-4
Phind-CodeLlama-34B is a fine-tuning of Meta's open-source Code Llama, based on Llama 2.
Fine-tuned on a “proprietary dataset of ~80k high-quality programming problems and solutions.”
Trained in 3 hours using 32 NVIDIA A100-80GB GPUs. - Phind blog post, code
Of course, it is unclear how good a fine-tuned GPT-4 would be
OpenAI just launched GPT-3.5-Turbo fine-tuning, to be fair, so that would be a better comparison.
Still, open source may be catching up to OpenAI with, ironically, the help of Mark Zuckerberg's Meta.
2. SpaceX's Crew-7 successfully docks at International Space Station
Fully autonomous docking of the Crew Dragon capsule, released into space by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
The ISS travels at 28K km/h, meaning it orbits the Earth in 90 minutes.
4 nationalities among the 4 crew members: U.S., Denmark, Japan, and Russia.
“200 science experiments and technology demonstrations to prepare for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.” - The Verge
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4. China's Evergrande real estate group stock -79% as trading resumes after 17 months
$0.6B market cap.
Reached -87% on its open. - Reuters
Attempting to restructure, with a potential approval by HK and BVI courts in early September.
Filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy on Aug. 17 with the bankruptcy court in Manhattan. - Reuters
Unclear whether any shareholder value is left.
Net result of -$5.4B in H1 2023. - CNBC
5. Visual: Apple's suppliers are mostly in China but have non-China locations too
Most suppliers have factories in Vietnam and India
India currently represents 7% of all iPhone production
Our view: rather than China decoupling, a China diversification strategy is more likely
Too costly to implement a fast China decoupling.
Decades would be necessary if one wants to fully decouple, i.e., not need China for anything, as not only do they concentrate most suppliers and factories, but they hold a quasi-monopoly in the production of some commodities too.
6. Survey: China likely to continue with moderate stimuli, no global contagion
Read more: Bloomberg.
7. Friend Tech's usage peaks on Aug. 21, as bots, short-term traders dominate
Read more: Bloomberg.
8. Interesting tweets, memes, and videos
9. Other headlines
AI
Air Force requests $5.8B for 1K-2K unmanned AI-powered aircrafts.
Tech
WordPress selling 100-year domain packages for $38K.
New iPad Pro to feature OLED, M3 chip, new keyboard; launch mid-2024.
Silicon Valley elite buys $800M of land to build new city.
X Hiring Beta launches, exclusively for Verified Organizations.
Instacart files for IPO, H1 revenue +24% to $406M.
Superyatchs of the tech elite: a look at.
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Biotech
HIV vaccine trial “PrEPVacc” to kick off in Africa, end in 2024.
Hallmarks of aging: a look at the 9 of them.
Business
China stocks close at +1% after being +5.5%.
Home prices expected to be 0% in 2023: Reuters poll.
Jackson Hole: Powell, others preach higher rates, humility.
BRICS unlikely to challenge U.S. dominance: Noah Smith.
Saudi Arabia to offer 30% stake in oil driller Ades in IPO.
Champions League is their next target.
Rave-goers who drink or use drugs risk jail time.
Crypto
SBF's lawyers again push for release for trial preparations.
U.S. politics
Post-debate polls show little change in GOP primary.
Trump raises $7.1M after Georgia mugshot.
Biden campaign not to focus on Trump's criminal charges.
Irritated with Newsom's debate with DeSantis.
Ramaswamy wants Elon as advisor if elected president.
Platform to encourage two-parent families is coming.
No Labels's bipartisan nominating convention in April.
San Francisco: Nordstrom closes after 3 decades due to rise in crime.
World
Zelensky wants Israeli-like long-term relationship with U.S.
Foxconn founder Terry Gou running for Taiwan presidency.
Yandex CEO files with EU to have sanctions lifted, after criticizing war.
Kremlin says genetic tests confirm Prigozhin's death.
Russia launches Sunday attacks in Kyiv, northern region.
Commerce Secretary arrives in Beijing preaching unity, responsibility.
Israel to have partial laser defenses by 2024.
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