Business
Competitive Performance, Competitive Prices: Amazon introduces Nova models for text, image, and video
Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.
Large Language Models
Tech & Society
Voter’s Helper: Perplexity’s AI-powered U.S. election hub assists voters with verified, real-time news and insights
Some voters navigated last week’s United States elections with help from a large language model that generated output based on verified, nonpartisan information.
Machine Learning Research
Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead: Hunyuan-Large outshines open competitors with high benchmark scores
A new open source large language model outperforms competitors, including the open-weights Llama 3.1 405B, on a variety of benchmarks.
Machine Learning Research
When Agents Train Algorithms: OpenAI’s MLE-bench tests AI coding agents
Coding agents are improving, but can they tackle machine learning tasks?
Tech & Society
A Year of Contending Forces: State of AI report highlights 2024’s major trends and breakthroughs
A new report documents the interplay of powerful forces that drove AI over the past year: open versus proprietary technology, public versus private financing, innovation versus caution.
Machine Learning Research
More, Better Open Source Options: Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5 models, raising the bar for open weight LLMs
The parade of ever more capable LLMs continues with Qwen 2.5.
Machine Learning Research
Reducing Memorization in LLMs: A technique that masks tokens in large language models, protecting data privacy
Studies have established that large language models can memorize the text passages they’ve been trained on repeatedly and regurgitate them when prompted in adversarial and, though rarely, in benign ways.
Business
Amazon Boosted by Covariant: Amazon strengthens logistics and robotics with new AI partnership
Amazon took on talent and technology from robotics startup Covariant to enhance its warehouse automation, an area critical to its core ecommerce business.
Hardware
High Gear for Llama 3.1 405B: SambaNova boosts Llama 3.1 performance with fast, free access to largest model
SambaNova raised the speed limit for access to the largest model in the Llama 3.1 family — and it’s free.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI Forges Chains of Thought: OpenAI’s o1 models excel in reasoning, outperform GPT-4o in math and coding
Preliminary versions of OpenAI’s new model family were trained explicitly to think step-by-step, yielding outstanding marks in math, science, and coding — but users can’t see their reasoning steps.
Machine Learning Research
Making LLMs Explainable: Google’s Gemma Scope probes how large language models think
Researchers have probed the inner workings of individual layers of large language models. A new tool applies this approach to all layers.
Machine Learning Research
Models Ranked for Hallucinations: Measuring language model hallucinations during information retrieval
How often do large language models make up information when they generate text based on a retrieved document? A study evaluated the tendency of popular models to hallucinate while performing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).