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When I first read Google’s RETRO paper, I was skeptical. Sure, RETRO models are 25x smaller than the competition, supposedly leading to HUGE savings in training and inference costs. But what about the new trillion token “retrieval database” they added to the architcture? Surely that must add back some computational…
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
Recurrent Neural Network Tutorial for Artists
A few months ago, we showed how effectively an LSTM network can perform text transliteration .
How using AI as a bridge when doctors aren't available can improve patient-to-doctor communications in real time emergencies
LLMs suck at comedy, art, journalism, research, and science for the same fundamental reason
Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as “Grok 4.1” in the model picker.
The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds.
Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.
Transcript of interview on how tech changes the world
Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
Today, Waymo and Hyundai Motor Company announced they have entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership.
Thoughts on the new technical report from AMÁLIA: The Open Source LLM for European Portuguese
Maybe you’re a Claude code/codex user diligently avoiding uploading personal data to LLM providers. Is it possible that the most valuable information isn’t your data- but the metadata about your sessions? The intuitions you apply in coming up with ways to coax the ai into solving problems might actually be special…
The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"
We’re making Duet AI for Google Workspace available to organizations around the world and announcing new AI capabilities, including automatic summaries and action items in Meet.
are they good or bad?
Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge.
Stability AI and its CarperAI lab are proud to announce FreeWilly1 and its successor FreeWilly2, two powerful new, open access, Large Language Models (LLMs). Both models demonstrate exceptional reasoning ability across varied benchmarks.
How a Single Function Call Gates Safety Alignment in Gemma, Qwen, and Other Open-Source LLMs
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Posted by Alexander B Wiltschko, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research Smell is a sense shared by an incredible range of living organisms, a...
Compare 153 autonomous runs from 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.
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Summary: This post addresses some high-level questions like: Longer term, how much of the verification of Intelligent Autonomous Systems can be done with just Machine Learning (ML)? Should most req…
MIT researchers have developed a “photonic” artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that computes using light instead of electricity — and consumes relatively little power in the process — to run massive neural networks millions of times more efficiently than today’s classical computers.
TL;DR A logic vulnerability, dubbed ReBreakCaptcha, which lets you easily bypass Google’s ReCaptcha v2 anywhere on the web. Overview Back in 2016, I started poking around to see how hard it w…
This post is just a quick note on some of the pitfalls we encounter when dealing with high-dimensional problems, even when working with something as simple as a Gaussian distribution. Last week I wrote about mixup [https://www.inference.vc/mixup-data-dependent-data-augmentation/] a new data-augmentation...
An overview of what I've been doing as part of my internship at Spotify in NYC this summer: using convolutional neural networks for audio-based music recommendation.
