That score is seriously impressive because it actually beats the average human performance of 60.2% and completely changes the narrative that you need massive proprietary models to do abstract reasoning. They used a fine-tuned version of Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B and brought the inference cost down to an absurdly cheap level compared to OpenAI's o3 model. ... read full post
Sorry for clickbaiting the title, but "Boss preppers" just isn't quite the same somehow. Also not sure if Technology is the right community for this, but anyway here it is...
Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, however, worry that the US is starting to fall behind when it comes to minting open-weight AI models that can be downloaded, adapted, and run locally.
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms. ... read full post