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Three major LLM releases in 24 hours (plus weeknotes)

Apr 10, 2024 · simonwillison.net
Three major LLM releases in 24 hours (plus weeknotes)
The article discusses the latest updates in the field of Large Language Models (LLMs) as of 10th April 2024. Google Gemini Pro 1.5 is now generally available, offering a free tier that allows up to 50 requests a day. OpenAI has released the non-preview version of GPT-4 Turbo, which now integrates GPT-4 Vision directly into the model. Mistral has released a new openly licensed model, Mixtral 8x22B, which is expected to perform extremely well. The author also mentions the release of Datasette Extract, a plugin powered by GPT-4 Turbo that extracts structured data from unstructured text.

The author also discusses several new releases and updates to various plugins and tools. These include llm-gemini 0.1a2, which adds support for system prompts, and datasette-enrichments-gpt, which can enrich data in a table by running prompts through GPT-3.5, GPT-4 Turbo, or GPT-4 Vision. The author also provides a list of his recent blog entries, all of which discuss ways he uses LLM tools in his work. The article concludes with a list of the author's recent releases and updates related to Datasette Cloud, and a list of his recent "Today I Learned" (TIL) posts.

Key takeaways

  • Google Gemini Pro 1.5 is now generally available and offers a free tier that allows up to 50 requests a day, with rate limits of 2 per minute.
  • OpenAI has released the non-preview version of GPT-4 Turbo, which now integrates GPT-4 Vision directly into the model and supports both functions and JSON output for image inputs.
  • Mistral has released a new openly licensed model, Mixtral 8x22B, which is significantly larger than their previous model and is expected to perform extremely well.
  • The author has been working on Datasette Extract, a plugin for Datasette that adds structured data extraction from unstructured text, powered by GPT-4 Turbo.
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