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Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:17AM (#45966336)
mums the word on Flash?
Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:57AM (#45966030)
I would love to know what the increased token count is across these models for the benchmarks. I find the models continue to get better but as they do their token usage also does. Aka is model doing better or reasoning for longer?
Re:Ollama Web Search on Friday September 26, 2025 @09:55AM (#45386555)
It's pretty wild that Brave's terms of service state as much, considering their search API is entirely derived from storing the results of other search systems. https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh.... Aka Brave is blocking exactly what it does to Bing and Google.
Re:Will Amazon S3 Vectors Kill Vector Databases–Or Save Them? on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:02PM (#45171624)
I think you would be very surprised by the number of customers who don't care if the embeddings are SOTA. For every Joe who wants to talk GraphRAG + MTEB + CMTEB and adaptive rag there are 50 who just want whatever IT/prodsec has approved
Re:Generative AI Hype Peaking on Monday March 10, 2025 @02:14PM (#43323711)
they also 10xed their revenue. 24 seems low for someone that pulled that off.
Re:Show HN: Benchmarking VLMs vs. Traditional OCR on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:11AM (#43161193)
GPT-4o as a judge to evaluate the quality of something which gpt4o is not inherently that good at. Red flag.
Re:Perplexity Deep Research on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:22PM (#43082401)
does it do the full 100? In my experience anything around many items that needs to be exhaustive (all states, all fortune 100) tends to miss a few.
Re:Perplexity Deep Research on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:20PM (#43082379)
It's not free because it's cheap for them to run. It's free because they are burning that late-stage VC dollars. Despite what you might believe if you only follow them on twitter the biggest input to their product, aka a search index, is mostly based on brave/bing/serpAPI and those numbers are pretty tight. Big expectations for ads will determine what the company does.
This works better because it gives a secondary set of conditions for which the decoder (generating text) is conditioning its generation. Assume instead of their demo you are doing Speech2Text for Oncologists. Out of the Box Whisper is terrible because the words are new and rare, especially in YouTube videos. If you just run ASR through it and run NER, it will generate regular words over cancer names. Instead, if you condition generation on topical entities the generation space is constrained and performance will improve. Especially when you can tell the model what all the drug names are because you have a list (https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/drug...)
Re:The Withering Dream of a Cheap American Electric Car on Monday November 18, 2024 @01:45PM (#42175524)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecnS1Ygf0o0 I've been waiting for the chance to use this
Re:Molmo: a family of open multimodal AI models on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @01:18PM (#41649645)
Not mentioned in their blog posts but on the model cards on huggingface: "Molmo 72B is based on Qwen2-72B and uses OpenAI CLIP as vision backbone. Molmo-72B achieves the highest academic benchmark score and ranks second on human evaluation, just slightly behind GPT-4o." Others are based on Qwen 7B. What happened to the Olmo chain?
Re:Anthropic – Introducing Contextual Retrieval on Monday September 23, 2024 @11:08AM (#41626995)
That is a funny was of explaining that they scrape google.
It needs updating to include you.com, perplexity, etc. Most of those are google reskins/emulators but they are there non the less
This seems to be a feature that execs wanted, and people find creepy, and no one has the gumption to push back on the exec request.
Re:DuckDuckGo Down on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:11PM (#40457946)
More countries have nukes than companies have actual indexes
If you only emulate the teacher can you ever become an master?
Re:Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production? on Monday March 11, 2024 @06:00PM (#39673723)
I feel like I have been hearing that since V1 TPU. I think Google is the perfect solution because they are teams whose job is to take a model and TPUify it. Elsewhere there is no team, so it's no fun.
Re:Claude 3 model family on Monday March 04, 2024 @01:58PM (#39594438)
Claude's answers sometimes fill the niche of 'management consultant'
Re:New embedding models and API updates on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:48PM (#39135081)
Probably as simple as training the smaller model to approximate the larger model. Well studied and done via tinylm and minilm.
Re:Perplexity Labs Playground on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @02:34PM (#38700379)
Does anyone have any good jailbreaking prompts? I am curious about the retrieval system.

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