707: Vicuña, Gorilla, Chatbot Arena and Socially Beneficial LLMs, with Prof. Joey Gonzalez

LLM Vicuña, Chatbot Arena, and the race to increase LLM context windows: This episode’s guest Joey Gonzalez talks to Jon Krohn about developing models and platforms that leverage and improve LLMs, as well as the future of AI development and access.

This episode is brought to you by the AWS Insiders Podcast, by Modelbit, for deploying models in seconds, and by Grafbase, the unified data layer. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

In this episode you will learn:
• Vicuña: How the revolutionary LLM came to be [03:35]
• Chatbot Arena: The leading LLM leaderboard [09:47]
• Trusting LLM results [17:54]
• Gorilla: The open-source ChatGPT plugin alternative [32:13]
• About LMSYS and long context windows [47:48]
• Open- vs closed-source LLMs: Which is better? [1:01:39]
• Aqueduct [1:16:49]
• Founding GraphLab [1:27:02]
• How AI will positively impact society in the coming decades [1:32:31]

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