AI — weekly megathread!

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1. **Meta AI** presents **Emu**, a quality-tuned latent diffusion model for generating highly aesthetic images. Emu significantly outperforms SDXLv1.0 on visual appeal \[[*Paper*](https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/emu-enhancing-image-generation-models-using-photogenic-needles-in-a-haystack/)\].
2. **Meta AI** researchers present a series of long-context LLMs with context windows of up to 32,768 tokens. LLAMA 2 70B variant surpasses gpt-3.5-turbo-16k’s overall performance on a suite of long-context tasks \[[*Paper*](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16039.pdf)\].
3. **Abacus AI** released a larger 70B version of **Giraffe**. Giraffe is a family of models that are finetuned from …

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