It was an amazing week in AI news. Among other things, there is a new NeRF and a new Llama in town!!! Zip-NeRF can create some amazing 3D scenes based on 2D images, and Llama 2 from Meta promises to change the LLM landscape. Chris and Daniel dive into these and they compare some of the recently released OpenAI functionality to Anthropic’s Claude 2.

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Featuring:

Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:43) - It's a different world
(02:16) - ZIP NeRF
(07:20) - Uses in eCommerce
(10:16) - Industrial usecases
(11:53) - Military ops?
(12:54) - Everyone can benefit
(14:28) - Connect the dots
(15:33) - LLaMA 2
(18:48) - Parameter limits
(21:48) - What do you need?
(23:59) - Why the jump?
(28:01) - Mark's anti-competetiveness
(31:51) - Walled garden?
(32:34) - Claude 2
(36:59) - Using different models
(39:54) - OpenAI vs Anthropic
(45:52) - Dig in!
(47:02) - Goodbye
(47:17) - Outro

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