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Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention. Ever-more ...
The Conversation

Large language models: how the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works

Mark Stevenson has previously received funding from Google. The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new ...
Quanta Magazine

To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language

Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...
Hackaday

An Animated Walkthrough Of How Large Language Models Work

If you wonder how Large Language Models (LLMs) work and aren’t afraid of getting a bit technical, don’t miss [Brendan Bycroft]’s LLM Visualization. It is an interactively-animated step-by-step ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...

8 billion tokens a day forced AT&T to rethink AI orchestration — and cut costs by 90%

AT&T's chief data officer shares how rearchitecting around small language models and multi-agent stacks cut AI costs by 90% at 8 billion tokens a day.
9to5Mac

Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

Apple researchers have developed an adapted version of the SlowFast-LLaVA model that beats larger models at long-form video analysis and understanding. Here’s what that means. Very basically, when an ...
The Auburn Plainsman

Taimoor Hassan: Developer of Qalb, the world's largest Urdu large language model

Taimoor Hassan developed Qalb, the world’s largest Urdu Large Language Model (LLM), as a second-year graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Business Wire

Z.ai Open-Sources GLM-4.7, a New Generation Large Language Model Built for Real Development Workflows

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Z.ai released GLM-4.7 ahead of Christmas, marking the latest iteration of its GLM large language model family. As open-source models move beyond chat-based applications and ...
AppleInsider

A Powerbook G4 is barely fast enough to run a large language model

A software developer has proven it is possible to run a modern LLM on old hardware like a 2005 PowerBook G4, albeit nowhere near the speeds expected by consumers. Most artificial intelligence projects ...
Medical Xpress

New large language model helps patients understand their radiology reports

Imagine getting an MRI of your knees and being told you have "mild intrasubstance degeneration of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus." Chances are, most of us who didn't go to medical school ...