1/3/2024: RIP Coqui
Coqui, a prominent open source text-to-speech project from the Mozilla ML group, officially shut down. Discussions in the HuggingFace Discord highlighted skepticism about the claimed `3X faster` speed of sdxl, attributing improvements more to techniques like `torch.compile` and removal of `fp16` and `attention` rather than diffusers 0.25 features. Users confirmed that a *HuggingFace user token* can be used across multiple machines, though distinct tokens are recommended for safety. The Learning Loss Minimization (LLM) Leaderboard briefly experienced issues but was later confirmed operational. A Kaggle notebook was shared demonstrating how to build Transformer architectures from scratch using PyTorch. Additionally, a new image dataset with 15k shoe, sandal, and boot images was introduced for multiclass classification tasks. Explanations about the workings of the Common Crawl web-crawling process were also shared.