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How Medium started growing again

Written media outlets have not had the best year in 2023: Washington Post, NPR, and Insider all announced layoffs. Vice had to be acquired out of bankruptcy. Buzzfeed shut down its Pulitzer-prize winning News Division and laid off 15% of staff after poor financial performance. ...

The most interesting growth story in media isn’t Meta’s Threads. It’s right here on Medium.

Written media outlets have not had the best year in 2023: Washington Post, NPR, and Insider all announced layoffs. Vice had to be acquired out of bankruptcy. Buzzfeed shut down its Pulitzer-prize winning News Division and laid off 15% of staff after poor financial performance. ...

Meta’s Threads Is Already Unravelling

This piece first appeared on my newsletter, Trend Mill. You can subscribe for free. Meta’s Threads app became the fastest-growing consumer application in history when it hit the 100 million user mark in the blink of an eye. Even a diehard Meta-cynic like myself couldn&rs...

First Test of LlaMa2: Meta’s Leap in the World of Open-Source LLMs

Meta’s launch of LlaMa2, an advanced open-source LLM (Large Language Model), has created excitement amongst AI enthusiasts for a number of reasons. Meta’s origin as a social media platform notwithstanding, the release of LlaMa2 has solidly positioned it as an AI power...

Everything You Need To Know About Meta’s Code-Llama!

Code-LLama is a family of LLMs based LLama2 dedicated for coding tasks. It already comes with a set of improvement and differences from previous Coding LLMs. Coding Llama picture generated by Replicate Introducing The Family Members Code Llama Specialization Pipeline Co...

EvolutionaryScale: Meta’s Ex-Researchers Transform into AI Avengers with $40 Million Boost

A motley crew of eight scientific sorcerers, all hailing from the same secret cabal of brainiacs, embarked on a quest akin to creating a Transformers-based model that’s essentially the lovechild of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Bard. But hold your horses, this AI prodigy isn’t ...