Not much happened today

**Twelve Labs** raised **$50m** in Series A funding co-led by NEA and **NVIDIA's NVentures** to advance multimodal AI. **Livekit** secured **$22m** in funding. **Groq** announced running at **800k tokens/second**. OpenAI saw a resignation from Daniel Kokotajlo. Twitter users highlighted **Gemini 1.5 FlashModel** for high performance at low cost and **Gemini Pro** ranking #2 in Japanese language tasks. **Mixtral** models can run up to 8x faster on NVIDIA RTX GPUs using TensorRT-LLM. **Mamba-2** model architecture introduces state space duality for larger states and faster training, outperforming previous models. **Phi-3 Medium (14B)** and **Small (7B)** models benchmark near GPT-3.5-Turbo-0613 and Llama 3 8B. Prompt engineering is emphasized for unlocking LLM capabilities. Data quality is critical for model performance, with upcoming masterclasses on data curation. Discussions on AI safety include a Frontier AI lab employee letter advocating whistleblower protections and debates on aligning AI to user intent versus broader humanity interests.