[punnerud]

More info on the Salesforce blog: https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/mint-1t/

[j7ake]

Wow did not expect sales force to be behind this.

It’s basically free advertising for technical people to join sales force.

[jszymborski]

Salesforce has long been involved in publishing quality NLP papers, especially during Stephen Merity's tenure.

Smerity's papers are some of my favourite. Check out

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1708.02182

And my all-time favourite

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1911.11423

[nighthawk454]

Hey thanks for those Smerity links, hadn't run across his work yet, second one in particular looks great

[jszymborski]

Glad you liked it.

How could you go wrong with a paper that starts with

> Language has been a thorn in humanity’s side since we evolved a complex enough audio and graphics processing unit to grunt, let alone write cryptocurrency whitepapers or opinion columns.

[0xDEADFED5]

Salesforce produced one of the best Llama-3(8B) finetunes, IMO: SFR-Iterative-DPO-LLaMA-3-8B-R

Hopefully they do something with Llama-3.1

[gotaran]

I’m skeptical of the caliber of talent at Salesforce given the unusable state of their core product.

[paxys]

The people building CRM software aren't also the ones doing AI research. The two have nothing to do with each other.

[inkyoto]

Salesforce have been on a shopping spree for quite a few years now. They have purchased MuleSoft (an integration platform) and Slack amongst the others.

Salesforce is anything but a CRM software company nowadays.

[gotaran]

The ones doing AI research would be working at more prestigious institutions.

[hluska]

Do you have a point or are you just insulting people out of some twisted definition of fun?

[ericjmorey]

Why make such a ridiculous assumption?