"We are now announcing BananaMind 3 🍌! (not ai for those emoji guys)" YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSIRRRR "We will cancel BananaMind 2.1 and BananaMind 2 Ultra. " NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
My (really ugly) thoughts on NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face I don’t care if you love me or hate me – something about one of the most open community efforts ever to achieve the tagline “The community building the future“ getting gobbled up by a company that arguably is the biggest hardware monopoly that has ever existed strikes me as deeply unsettling. I don’t like monopolies, and that is that. The whole appeal of HF for me personally was always having a neutral location where anyone could develop, deploy, and test a model on their silicon of choice without being pushed into a single “official“ proprietary infrastructure stack.
I am not going to pretend that I would believe NVIDIA “open and independent“ is ever going to happen – hell we have all heard the same lines dozens of times from every corporation that has ever uttered them before.
When the single biggest producer of compute also is one of the primary locations where all open weights live, it becomes very hard not to imagine where all of this is going to end up soon enough if we continue to let companies dictate the narrative. It might be the hyperbole but it is an absolute truth for me – open-sourced AI cannot be a slave to the whims of a trillion dollar company. It is high time we realize that open AI cannot live and breathe only on the goodwill of corporate entities.
We're excited to release BananaAll, our SLM Super App.
It allows you to do EVERYTHING you need to do to trains SLMs in a single app, no terminal, no 30 chrome tabs.
The train tab allows you to train models, select datasets from presets, and use other ones with auto mapping, model size slider, it automatically generates a training script for you.
Then after you've trained the model or want to compare it to competitors, the evaluation tab, run ARC EASY, ARC Challenge, Hellaswag, PIQA, Arithmark 3, BananaMind Base Bench and more! Simple Results screen.
And lastly the inference tab, run your trained models or others.
Normally you would need seperate apps or scripts for that, but the BananaAll Super App lets you do all of that in a single app.
We also trained a small 2.5M parameter model on 200M tokens of Fineweb edu, The results: BananaMind Base Bench 854 and 53% on PIQA. On only 200M tokens.