June 28, 2024

Modverse #38

The 24.4 release introduced GGUF support and quantisation for models such as Llama3 and many new features for Mojo. With that behind us Modular is now working hard towards the next release. To try out the new features press the Nightly tab on the MAX installation guide. There's an active community in the #nightly Discord channel to discuss the upcoming features with, and Modular staff are there to answer questions and respond to your feedback!

The latest MAX nightly release now has a interactive GUI chat interface for Llama3, the commands to beta test it before the official release are here.

Blogs, Tutorials, and Videos

Awesome Mojo

You can discuss these projects with the creators on the Discord channel: #community

  • Frank built libjpeg-mojo: bindings to libjpeg from Mojo.
  • Samay reinvigorated and updated arrow.mojo for the latest Mojo release.
  • Kevin released mojonet: PyTorch Neural Network wrapper to help transition existing projects.

Open Source Contributions

Check out all the open source contributions here. Any significant changes that made it into the changelog are here. make sure to DM Jack Clayton on Discord if you've had your first PR merged to claim some epic Mojo swag!

Check out the merged contributions this week from our valuable community members:

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Jack started his career optimizing autonomous truck software for leading mining companies, including BHP and Caterpillar. Most recently he was designing computer vision software, putting AI inference pipelines into production for IDVerse. He is enormously passionate about the developer community, having been a Rust, Go, Python and C++ developer for over a decade. Jack enjoys making complicated topics simple and fun to learn, and he’s dedicated to teaching the world about Mojo 🔥.