Ashok Pon Kumar
ashokponkumar.bsky.social
Ashok Pon Kumar
@ashokponkumar.bsky.social
Manager and Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research.
Working on making LLM tuning easy and efficient.
Reposted by Ashok Pon Kumar
From @theathletic.bsky.social: India’s 18-year-old prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju capped his meteoric rise by becoming the youngest world chess champion in history. nyti.ms/4fhwjnQ
December 12, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Gukesh becomes World Chess Champion!!! Wow!
December 12, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Ashok Pon Kumar
Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration
Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration
Linux Foundation has launched its India entity to boost open-source contributions from the South Asian nation, the second largest developer base after the U.S. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
tcrn.ch
December 11, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Nice to see project Astra working in Tamil too..

youtu.be/hIIlJt8JERI?...
Project Astra | Exploring the future capabilities of a universal AI assistant
YouTube video by Google
youtu.be
December 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
vLLM is now part of PyTorch ecosystem!

pytorch.org/blog/vllm-jo...
vLLM Joins PyTorch Ecosystem: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving for Everyone
pytorch.org
December 10, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Reposted by Ashok Pon Kumar
Introducing 🧞Genie 2 🧞 - our most capable large-scale foundation world model, which can generate a diverse array of consistent worlds, playable for up to a minute. We believe Genie 2 could unlock the next wave of capabilities for embodied agents 🧠.
December 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Short and simple video to learn about self attention in transformers.

youtu.be/nN-svjyBeu8?...
Self-Attention in transfomers - Part 2
YouTube video by AI Bites
youtu.be
December 4, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Nice!
TIL: @huggingface.bsky.social Transformers has native Tensor Parallelism support for better inference on multiple GPUs! This will enable many benefits and optimizations in the future.🚀

For now, it supports Llama. Which one would you want to see next?
November 29, 2024 at 6:17 AM
IISc-IBM AI Day is happening on December 4th 2024!

cni.iisc.ac.in/workshops/20...
IISc-IBM AI Day | Centre for Networked Intelligence
cni.iisc.ac.in
November 29, 2024 at 6:03 AM