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Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by bigyabai »

divan wrote: post #59
blitzar wrote: post #48

Its impressive that Llama and the Ai teams in general survived the meta-verse push at Facebook. Congrats to the team for keeping their heads down and saving the company from itself. Its all Ai all the time now though, not seen any mention of our reimagined future of floating heads hanging out together in quite some time.

I'm working in Quest 3 almost every day. I use Immersed, as it implements virtual displays for my MacBook better than others, but I'm impressed with the Meta ecosystem. Granted, social interaction is still awkward without proper face expressions, but it feels closer each year to the depicted vision. I recently travelled and needed to work (coding and video editing in DaVinci) a lot in hotels and random places. I can'…

I'm quite a big fan of my Quest 1 as a cheap flight sim headset, too. I don't end up using it more than maybe twice a week, but that's more than worth-it for the $400 I paid 5 years ago. It installs (or "sideloads" in present vernacular) Android apps like any other device, browses the web, and streams wireless VR from my desktop via ALVR when I want to play games. It does a lot of stuff you wouldn't expect out of a "depreciated" piece of hardware.

The trepidation behind VR for professional applications makes sense to me - it's expensive and tough to compare with what it's replacing. As a pure vehicle for fun though, I genuinely have no regrets with my Quest hardware. It was easily a better purchase than my Xbox One.

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by com2kid »

mgdev wrote: post #10

There is a potential world where Meta uses AI as a vector to tap into the home. Like, literally building smart homes. Locally intelligent in ways that enable truly magical smart home experiences while preserving privacy and building trust. But connected in ways that facilitate pseudo-social interactions, entertainment, and commerce. Meta's biggest competitors are Apple and Amazon. This is the first clear opportunity…

I wrote a blog post about exactly this - https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-...

Offline first locally hosted AI household assistants.

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by mwambua »

divan wrote: post #59
blitzar wrote: post #48

Its impressive that Llama and the Ai teams in general survived the meta-verse push at Facebook. Congrats to the team for keeping their heads down and saving the company from itself. Its all Ai all the time now though, not seen any mention of our reimagined future of floating heads hanging out together in quite some time.

I'm working in Quest 3 almost every day. I use Immersed, as it implements virtual displays for my MacBook better than others, but I'm impressed with the Meta ecosystem. Granted, social interaction is still awkward without proper face expressions, but it feels closer each year to the depicted vision. I recently travelled and needed to work (coding and video editing in DaVinci) a lot in hotels and random places. I can'…

How do you power it for extended sessions? Is it constantly connected to power - using wifi/airlink between it and your Mac? Or do you use the link cable?

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by mrcwinn »

divan wrote: post #59
blitzar wrote: post #48

Its impressive that Llama and the Ai teams in general survived the meta-verse push at Facebook. Congrats to the team for keeping their heads down and saving the company from itself. Its all Ai all the time now though, not seen any mention of our reimagined future of floating heads hanging out together in quite some time.

I'm working in Quest 3 almost every day. I use Immersed, as it implements virtual displays for my MacBook better than others, but I'm impressed with the Meta ecosystem. Granted, social interaction is still awkward without proper face expressions, but it feels closer each year to the depicted vision. I recently travelled and needed to work (coding and video editing in DaVinci) a lot in hotels and random places. I can'…

In no way is Quest 3 better than Apple Vision Pro for desktop work. I’ve used both. It’s not close.

(There are other critiques of AVP that might not make it the right choice, but desktop work experience isn’t one of them.)

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by stavros »

philipkglass wrote: post #29
galeos wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you find ModernBERT performance Vs prior BERT models?

I didn't try original BERT at all because I didn't get good results from any LLMs on small document excerpts, so I assumed that a substantial context was necessary for good results. Traditional BERT only accepts up to 512 tokens, while ModernBERT goes up to 8192. I ended up using a 2048 token limit.

Would you happen to know of any resources for how to distill a ModernBERT model out of a larger one? I'm interested in doing exactly what you did, but I don't know how to start.

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

retinaros wrote: post #16
swatcoder wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They seem to see tge writing on the wall and have been panicked for a while, yes. Gobbling up rising brands kept their finances going for a while, but the grand Metaverse pivot was clearly their (much struggling) attempt to invent their own titanic platform akin to Android or iPhone. With that not gaining as much traction as they wanted as quickly as they wanted, they're still on the hunt, as here.

The metaverse is a great idea but they should have partnered with Epic for this or Valve. The implementation was subpar

I think they didn't want a gaming platform, that just ended up being what was most appealing about it

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #23

Does anyone use llama as their primary model for any usecase? Maybe it's my fault for not spending much time with it, but I still couldn't find the applications for which llama has an advantage over the competition.

The biggest advantage is that it's free and available on your phone already.

But if you have an Android phone, Gemini on that phone is far superior. And if you have Apple, well maybe that's all the people who use it

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

amusingimpala75 wrote: post #46

Meta needs to stop open-washing their product. It simply is not open-source. The license for their precompiled binary blob (ie model) should not be considered open-source, and the source code (ie training process / data) isn’t available.

I get the argument completely, but isn't the open-washing a little acceptable if they're the only big company releasing open-weights models?

Re: Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon

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Post by nowittyusername »

mvieira38 wrote: post #27
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #23

Does anyone use llama as their primary model for any usecase? Maybe it's my fault for not spending much time with it, but I still couldn't find the applications for which llama has an advantage over the competition.

It's pretty popular in the local LLM space

Is it? I am pretty active in those spaces and most folks it seems are using any number of the Chinese models like qwen, qwq, etc...
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