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Universal Summarizer

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Re: Universal Summarizer

#41

I put in a (mostly) transcript of the Randy Pausch lecture on Time Management [1] and the summarizer gave me: Time management is an important skill to have in order to lead a happier and more productive life. Julie A. Zelenski, a professor at UVA, gave a talk on time management, drawing from two books and her own experiences. She recommends having a filing system, using speaker phones, and standing during phone calls…

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Re: Universal Summarizer

#42
post #18

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Thanks for noticing! (dev here) We have an in-house model we've been developing since 2019, just for summarization of long documents in real time. We'll try to find some time to blog about the high level design.

I'd pay for an API to this

I second this, API please.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#43
post #5

Impressed with their long document summarization, any ideas how they do this? Seems beyond normal GPT limitations; either they have a more powerful model (doubt it) or hacked around the limitations? e.g. good summary for a very long text https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=http://localroger.com/prime...

Thanks for noticing! (dev here) We have an in-house model we've been developing since 2019, just for summarization of long documents in real time. We'll try to find some time to blog about the high level design.

Is there an API for this? I'd love to make an Alexa skill that reads out summarized Wikipedia articles for me.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#44
post #22

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Probably by usage similar to OpenAI since I assume your costs are correlated (compute etc). You could do a hobby plan which is free up to a certain no. of requests/tokens per day or hour so developers can start building without any friction (I think this is important and sort of expected as most beloved dev tools do it). You can minimize your costs by offering this on shared resources so inference time is a little sl…

Cool, pricing per tokens processed makes sense, thanks for brainstorming this.

Would love to use an API, per token pricing is a good approach (with use limits like OpenAI). If you need testers, I have some use case (long form non-fiction content). LMK at ml[at]summarity[dot]com

Re: Universal Summarizer

#45

I pay for Kagi search. This doesn't interest me in the least. They have been breaking down the costs of running their business and justifying their prices, which I'm cool with. If it turns out I'm paying to subsidize this kind of thing, it's not going to work for me anymore. (I don't mean to say it's bad or anything, just I don't care about it. It's an interesting downside of a paid business model. Google can do what…

Would you recommend Kagi search to look up software dev?

Re: Universal Summarizer

#46
post #14

This is really cool. Do you have an API? :)

We do, and we thought about opening this as a part of other APIs we already have. How would you price this?

I have a few thousand things to summarize, and am a paying subscriber. What happens to my account if I automate your page?

I'm happy to pay. I think it's too much but I'd probably unhappily pay $0.05 per summary when they're this good. I'd rather pay $0.005 or less, then I'd plug it into KB tools like Obsidian as well as our bookmarking / link logging workflow firm-wide.

Which reminds me, I want to be able to "gift" Kagi search to all employees. I actively don't want them to have to use Google. Is there a way for an automatic company @domain x per seat billing, or should I use gifting?

Finally, what would it take for kagi.com to be part of the Apple One / iCloud+ offering? That needs to happen.

Re: Universal Summarizer

#47
post #8

Quite useful IMHO to summarize some Hacker News posts, here's an example [0]. Funny story: I tried to build something like this years ago, called MNMN, guessing that AI would have eventually be able to do the summarizes well enough. [1] The name was a play on the song "Manamanà". [0]: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://plei.one/blog/flutt... [1]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN

The song being https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ ? It surely reminded me of that one!

Yes! Even better, this [0]. Elio is a famous Italian singer.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dN0EYphtA0

Re: Universal Summarizer

#50
I just tried it with a blogpost of my own that's written in a somewhat localized Spanish and it summarized it pretty well in English, which is quite surprising. Good job team kagi!
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