Contextual Document Embeddings: `cde-small-v1`
Researchers Jack Morris and Sasha Rush release cde-small-v1, a 143M-parameter embedding model trained with a contextual batching technique that achieves strong retrieval performance.
Meta announced a new text-to-video model, Movie Gen, claiming superior adaptation of Llama 3 to video generation compared to OpenAI's Sora Diffusion Transformers, though no release is available yet. Researchers Jack Morris and Sasha Rush introduced the cde-small-v1 model with a novel contextual batching training technique and contextual embeddings, achieving strong performance with only 143M parameters.
OpenAI launched Canvas, a collaborative interface for ChatGPT with synthetic data training. Google DeepMind welcomed Tim Brooks to work on video generation and world simulators. Google released Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, improving cost and rate limits with algorithmic efficiency.