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OTC CatchUp #215

Date: 21-12-2024

Duration: 2 hrs 23 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Siddharth Bhatia showcased his terminal setup and highlighted a couple of GitHub repositories:

  • Rishit Dagli, Siddharth Bhatia, and Pranav Dani discussed AI advancements and Gemini’s improvements.

    • Additionally, Siddharth Bhatia introduced a GitHub repository, Free Lunch, offering valuable resources for anyone eager to learn about tech.

  • Viranchee L talked about job opportunities and shared insights on the job market.

  • Discussion on the new GPUs from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia:

    • Nvidia is known its mature software stack and hence people are ready to pay for their GPUs.

    • AMD and Intel are focusing on competitive pricing strategies.

  • We discussed the challenges in managing LLM behavior and examined how unofficial e-book repositories, such as Libgen, play a role in providing training data for these models.

    • Rishit Dagli had the opportunity to test OpenAI’s o3, and it seems to beat the Arc benchmark.

  • We also talked about the misuse of personality rights, as seen in the Delhi High Court case involving Anil Kapoor.

Attendees

  1. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  2. Darshit Suratwala

  3. Pranav Dani

  4. Rishit Dagli

  5. Siddharth Bhatia

  6. Wilfred Almeida

  7. Bhavesh Kukreja

  8. Hardik Raheja

  9. Hritik Jaiswal

  10. Mohit Gangwani

  11. Viranchee L

  12. jaden furtado

  13. DEV MALANG

  14. Tarun 24

  15. Tushar Shelke

  16. Akhil Sahu

  17. Uma Iyer

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