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Birthday 2019: Canadian visitor visa to attend an ML fellowship in Toronto gets rejected
Birthday 2024: Canadian citizenship application gets approved
What a journey
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If you're passionate about crafting an unbeatable experience for training LLMs at scale and want to build the best LLM finetuning experience in the industry, consider applying! I'm hiring for my team in Toronto that focuses on precisely that (DMs are open)
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The world’s best open weight model is here
Today, we’re introducing Command R+: a state-of-the-art RAG-optimized LLM designed to tackle enterprise-grade workloads and speak the languages of global business.
Our R-series model family is now available on Microsoft Azure, and coming soon to additional cloud providers.
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Come train neural nets with me
🐾PAWLEAGUE APPRECIATION POST
Did you know that all of our offices are dog-friendly? When we're not training large language models, we're training four-legged co:mpanions (or maybe the other way around). We've even had true friendship blossom between
@chengstaa
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Been incredible watching
@acyr_l
and his team work to push our base models forward. Onwards and upwards, so excited to build and ship more this year
Today, we’re introducing Command R+: a state-of-the-art RAG-optimized LLM designed to tackle enterprise-grade workloads and speak the languages of global business.
Our R-series model family is now available on Microsoft Azure, and coming soon to additional cloud providers.
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We play to win
We’re excited to announce our Series D financing to accelerate growth, expand our team, & develop our next class of frontier, enterprise-grade, data privacy-focused AI technology.
We’re bringing highly scalable and secure AI solutions to global enterprises wherever their data is
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Undergrad and master’s curriculums should have a course that highlights the importance of good engineering and infra in the context of doing research. I feel like very few people that are just out of school (incl me) appreciate what good eng+infra can enable for research at scale
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Really glad that the plan for how I’m going to spend the next decade is clear
Yesterday: took the citizenship oath
2 years from now: join the Canadian Space Agency
10 years from now: Quit CSA, go back to India and build infrastructure in villages
iykyk
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RoPE’s behaviour is very perplexing. It’s almost universally used but its effects are poorly understood (much like the rest of LLMs I suppose). I am almost uncomfortable using it. For some reason, 10k is the worst theta to use, 500 is very good for extrapolation but not for
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> Command-R is the first in a series of model releases advancing capabilities crucial to enterprise adoption at scale.
LFG
⌘-R
Introducing Command-R, a model focused on scalability, RAG, and Tool Use. We've also released the weights for research use, we hope they're useful to the community!
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It was super fun hosting the first C4AI meetup at Cohere HQ in Toronto! Join us at :)
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8 passengers, 4 rides. pretty fun - chatted about AI research, Toronto and its tech/art talent, nature of ambition, the wild concept of Greektown. Discovered new music, learned new things about people I interact with. Might do this on a recurring basis
Offering free rides to anyone that needs it downtown for the next 3 hours, DM me
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Just got my driver’s license, the world is my oyster. Also, I don’t fw pedestrians and bikers anymore
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My aunt introduced me to back in 2009, when I was 11 yo. It was a website you could go to, to ask any question you wanted and it would get answered by a scientist. That was one of my favourite websites at the time - I asked all the questions that kept me
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In case y’all missed it, we released a majorly improved Command R last week
Today, we’re introducing Command R+: a state-of-the-art RAG-optimized LLM designed to tackle enterprise-grade workloads and speak the languages of global business.
Our R-series model family is now available on Microsoft Azure, and coming soon to additional cloud providers.
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So I thought it would be fun to host an event where people can talk about the future they want to see.
June 23, Youthful Vengeance @ 2pm.
Tickets here (free):
If you would like to present, DM me! (10mins per speaker)
The future I predict and the future I want can often be different things. Yet, I believe there is immense value in pursuing the version that I want and working towards realizing it. My favorite computer scientist, Richard Hamming, mentioned in his book that he set aside time
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I’ve been in ML for about 7 years now and it’s so crazy to see the kind of shit the community at large propels and fuels now. So many people with inflated egos for no good reason, describing themselves in the abstract as “the best minds of our generation”. Markets built around
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Today we announced the general availability of our foundational NLP platform. Our APIs provide access to large language models that can be finetuned to build richer experiences and deeper AI capabilities for companies of all sizes.
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HYPE
Join us:
Toronto AI startup Cohere raises US$40-million as it looks to bring Google-quality predictive language to masses
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Cohere ఒక బహుభాషా నమూనాను విడుదల చేసింది. దయచేసి ఒకసారి ప్రయత్నించండి
IT’S FINALLY HERE! 🎉
@Nils_Reimers
and I are so excited to announce the launch of our
@CohereAI
multilingual text understanding model. This new model is the first to be trained on authentic data. 🇺🇲🇨🇳🏴🇪🇸🇫🇷🇪🇬🇦🇪🇵🇹🇮🇩🇧🇩🇯🇵🇧🇷
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Tweeted this before the event started. The vibe holds up even more after - haven’t felt this energized in a while. It was so inspiring to see so many people build and demo stuff that they care about. New Demos 2 is a testament to what can be achieved when you build with passion
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A successful first fundraiser at Youthful Vengeance last night. Thanks to everyone who donated, showed up / performed. Special shoutout to
@devontoast
for donating his pearl lamp to our raffle roster. Our Weeks of Vengeance program resumes in August.
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Dreamt that I was having simultaneous dreams and I had to call jax.lax.all_gather to unify those dreams so that I can be myself again. Save me
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As I’m becoming more and more self-aware, one of the things I realized is the absolutely unbelievable effect music has on me. I work out longer, hike longer, can code more effectively, can change my mood to an arbitrary mood - all when I’m listening to music.
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it's easy to romanticize being unhappy and trap yourself in loops of bad patterns. it's hard to act on those tendencies and detach from them to give yourself space to see things from a different perspective. the harder part is then moulding people's perception of you after this
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At Cohere, I’ve been taking on more eng heavy tasks. I’ve learned so much about software design from my colleagues (Kuba, Joanna, Rod, Robert and many more) in the past year and I feel so empowered. I feel confident that given some time, I can implement most research ideas that…
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Rerank is so powerful! If you have search in any part of your stack, it’s a no-brainer to add rerank on top of it. Huge congratulations to
@sylvieshi00
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Introducing Rerank 3! Our latest model focused on powering much more complex and accurate search.
It's the fastest, cheapest, and highest performance reranker that exists. We're really excited to see how this model influences RAG applications and search stacks.
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If there is a screening tonight at TIFF that you are interested in that still has tickets available, DM me for a FREE ticket. Schedule here:
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Yesss, submitted 2 papers to
#neurips2019
. This is my first time submitting to a conference/journal. Worked hard on this for the past few months and the last few hours were WILD. I'm really excited to see what the reviewers think about our work.
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The future I predict and the future I want can often be different things. Yet, I believe there is immense value in pursuing the version that I want and working towards realizing it. My favorite computer scientist, Richard Hamming, mentioned in his book that he set aside time
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Through Youthful Vengeance at 1110 Dundas St W, over the past few months, I’ve met so many incredible artists that are based out of Toronto. A songwriter that would not have met their producer, a filmmaker that would not have met their DOP - if Youthful Vengeance didn’t exist. I
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The Youthful Vengeance Fundraiser is this Saturday night.
We did too good a job at getting sponsorships so we now have giveaways from Aga Khan Museum, AGO, Othership, Underground Dance Centre, Strings From Paris, Moonlight Ballet, Orson Wilds, Jon Henry - among other super cool
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2020 is off to a great start. It was an amazing first week at
@proteinqure
(and Toronto!). *Finally* met friends from
@forai_ml
in person. Super excited to explore NNs further as well as the intersection of ML&Bio. (God Bless Tim Hortons!)
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Upcoming at Youthful Vengeance
Sunday (23 June)
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9am - 2pm: Summer Software coworking session with
@caseploeg
2pm-4pm: The Future For You
Saturday (29 June)
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Vengeful Friends fundraiser:
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Working on a new series of events at Youthful Vengeance. Aiming for a mid August start, recurring every month. Personally, the most exciting series we’ve had at YV so far. In the meantime, Future For You will be back with some improvements to the format.
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So excited to be out of stealth!! Cohere has big and ambitious plans for the future (of ML and language itself) and I couldn’t be more excited to be a part of it. If you’re interested in joining us, check out our Lever page:
So excited to finally come out of stealth and announce
@CohereAI
🥰 We've spent the past year building extremely high quality language models and today we're opening them up to the world! ()
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No joke, this book brought me back from a sabbatical and got me excited about computer science again! A must-read for everyone imo, perfect balance of technical detail and non-technical/high-level advice.
Reading the most beautifully bound version of one of the most beautiful books I’ve come across
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See y'all in 2020 :)
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My parents’ visitor visa got rejected TWICE - I’m a permanent resident of Canada and my dad is a government employee back in India. The rejections make no sense. Canada, PLEASE fix your immigration system !!!
The Canadian visa process is extremely frustrating. Multiple members of
@forai_ml
research staff have been waiting months for visas for our June team onsite in Toronto.
You cannot lead in AI if you are unwilling to support top AI researchers visiting for conferences/business.
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On a TPU v4, if I trigger a collective permute of n bytes (n bytes being what each device holds), how long should I expect it to take? each device is sending its data to the next device and receiving data from the previous one. Analytically speaking.
The way I'm looking at is
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I didn't apply to a PhD program right after my undergrad because I was sure I wouldn't get an offer from the programs/schools I was interested in. In retrospect, that was a blessing in disguise.
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Been listening to diss tracks too much, want to start a war with everyone I see. Don’t talk to me for a week please
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The only 💍 I care about
Introducing: New Builds
A multidisciplinary hackathon that combines intensive project development with new team formation mechanics inspired by the NBA Draft.
Happening at the end of September 2024 in Toronto.
Join the wait list to reserve your spot.
Link in reply.
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Offering free rides to anyone that needs it downtown for the next 3 hours, DM me
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The biggest advantage of time travel would be the ability to setup Cron jobs that run in the past
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Ironic that I cannot get a US visitor visa but most of my impact in the real world is through a machine that resides in US
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Going on a vacation soon-ish. Need recommendations for cool places in europe-west4-a
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Come work with
@_joanna_yoo
and me on a scale-first training framework that powers Cohere’s language models. I promise it’s going to be an exciting and challenging journey. If you love TPUs, you’ll love us!
1/4 Today Cohere is announcing our $125 million Series B:
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Good day today, cranked out a few focused work sessions with Case. Had a bug with a chat box repeating itself in the UI, narrowed it down to a redundant list unpacking. Chat updates now updates the graph as well (kinda)
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I import Tensorflow in my Pytorch project even though I don't use it because I want to make TF feel like a valued member of the team.
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regardless of where you are from, Toronto will make you feel at home, I promise. Join us
@cohere
Toronto is the most underrated place in possibly the world right now:
- Free healthcare
- Startup ecosystem (only rivaled by SF and NY)
- Kickass uni's near (similar to Cambridge)
- A lot of my builder friends are there
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DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO RERANK YOURSELF INTO THE TEAM LEAD POSITION AT COHERE? APPLY TODAY
Looking for a team lead to join our search team at
@cohere
working with
@Nils_Reimers
and many other kind & smart people. Feel free to message me if you want to know more! here is the posting:
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Fax
The only MIT relevant to our generation of artificial intelligence is Manipal Institute of Technology.
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Don’t talk to me about Toronto if you haven’t had a Slammie Sammies sandwich. I’d die for Pedro
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The Weeks of Vengeance series, where we feature emerging local artists every week, resumes this Thursday!!! Come support local art and be amazed at the creativity Toronto houses.
Youthful Vengeance @ 7pm on August 1, 5$ for 2 tickets (at the door)
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I forgot to mention, given the east-west transit inconvenience, I’ll be giving free rides to the venue between 11:30am to 1:30pm. DM me if you want a ride beforehand so I can plan my route. See you there!
I want speaking about your vision to be a low commitment thing. It’s ok
So I thought it would be fun to host an event where people can talk about the future they want to see.
June 23, Youthful Vengeance @ 2pm.
Tickets here (free):
If you would like to present, DM me! (10mins per speaker)
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Of course this means that I’m worse at all of these things without music. But I think it’s better to embrace it than to see it as a weakness - as I can see no situation in which I wouldn’t have access to music (my own vocals in the worst case)
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Looking for a web dev to help us prep for the event. Hmu if you’re interested - I’ll give you the pitch 🫡
Through Youthful Vengeance at 1110 Dundas St W, over the past few months, I’ve met so many incredible artists that are based out of Toronto. A songwriter that would not have met their producer, a filmmaker that would not have met their DOP - if Youthful Vengeance didn’t exist. I
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I want this so bad
Introducing, the New Hacks Championship Ring.
The most valuable item in Toronto.
The only way to obtain it is to win New Hacks.
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Consistency is the most inspiring thing ever 🫡
Interlude ✅
LA live intro outstanding, time taken to learn all parts of Neon individually: 32 hours
Made it work, now it’s time to put it all together make it pretty (I.e. not sloppy as hell lol)
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Was on set a few weeks ago - coldest night of the year but we pushed through
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Oh and there may or may not be a surprise gift from
@devontoast
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The Youthful Vengeance Fundraiser is this Saturday night.
We did too good a job at getting sponsorships so we now have giveaways from Aga Khan Museum, AGO, Othership, Underground Dance Centre, Strings From Paris, Moonlight Ballet, Orson Wilds, Jon Henry - among other super cool
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Come through!
This Sunday, June 16th,
@sid_srk
and I will be working on software projects at Youthful Vengeance, 1110 Dundas St West, starting at 9am. Pull up and meet the family
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Go watch my friends talk about how we’ve been using Jax and TPUs for LLM training! It’ll be super cool
Modern language models are big. Really big. So new approaches are needed for efficient distributed training.
Don’t miss the
#RaySummit
talk from the team at
@CohereAI
, who will share how they’ve improved efficiency with
@raydistributed
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#JAX
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#TPUv4
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I spent a couple of hours tuning the hyperparameters of an RL agent today. Super happy to tell you that I finally learned to let go and move on. Fts
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I’ve been obsessed with
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ever since I saw it at New Demos 2. Now, my personal website and projects are Kinopio spaces. So amazing for networked thought and for “unstructured structure”
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Bangalore's transport system is THE most inefficient I've ever seen. Traffic jams, potholes, lack of cabs. Everything about it sucks
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I seem to have the tendency to turn a deep and serious thought into a meme just to fit that into the character limit of a single tweet.
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doesn't exist anymore but I just bought the domain to preserve what it meant to me. I will redirect it to for now so that people can experience how helpful open-weights LLMs can be.
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