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Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by Planktonne on Sunday June 14, 2026 @12:50PM (#48529507)
That's also something all the AI companies have been doing.
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Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by low_tech_love on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:15PM (#48531471)
They’re using public money to “train” this.
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Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by dofm on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:07PM (#48529725)
Lying about model capability is right now the lingua franca of the cloud AI business model, almost; they yes-and each other's lies because they are in a position of needing to generate interest, including going as far as needing to trigger regulatory capture.

(It's not news to anyone who has worked in sales-led businesses that salespeople are prone to believing the claims of other salespeople, I guess).

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Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by selcuka on Sunday June 14, 2026 @07:08PM (#48533985)
> Lying about model capability is right now the lingua franca of the cloud AI business model

Lying about your lab's capabilities != Lying about model capability

Exaggerating the capabilities of a new model that you've actually trained in press bulletins can be called marketing. Merging two models and claiming that you trained a new model is plain lazy.

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