From physics to AI: Why machine learning experts won the 2024 Nobel Prize & how to grasp LLMs with simple math

Why was the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize awarded to machine learning experts? And how does ML connect to physics? 

And how to understand LLMs from scratch using middle school mathematics?

GenAI and LLMs development, trends and implications (11. - 17.11.2024)

New models and functionality:

• Anthropic releases new Claude models and computer use feature
• Meta Releases NotebookLlama - Open-Source PDF to podcast toolkit

Building with LLMs:

• Leveraging various deployment options - Economics of hosting Open Source LLMs
• Efficient resource management with Small Language Models (SLMs) in Edge Computing
• A step-by-step guide - Building a reliable text classification pipeline with LLMs
• A local ChatGPT-like interface + Copilot in less than 10 minutes - using Ollama, Llama3, Continue, and Open WebUI
• Turn any document into a conversation-ready AI tool with open-source AnythingLLM
• AI image generation with OpenAI DALL·E 3 using Spring AI

Using models:

• Torch Compile - 2x faster Llama 3.2 with low effort
• Music transcription with multi-modal language models

RAG:

• How to implement a basic reranking system in RAG
• An introduction to Graph RAG
• Where does the magic of RAG go from?

LLMs generally:

• Can quantum computing help improve our ability to train large neural networks encoding LLMs?
• Inference with Gemma using Dataflow and vLLM