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Re:Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:02AM (#49891171)
Switzerland has a strong startup scene. The country also ranks first in the global innovation index.
Re:GPT‑Live‑1 in the API on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:15AM (#49655999)
All voices offered sound human. I'd prefer a robotic voice, to avoid over-anthropomorphizing the AI.
Re:Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:48AM (#49654412)
What is the "compilers argument"?
Re:No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians on Monday August 31, 2026 @03:12PM (#49513705)
Human verification of the Lean program only requires verifying that the theorem itself is represented correctly. The theorem will only make up a very small part of the entire Lean program.
Uber is likely on an enterprise plan - these charge tokens at API cost, which can be much more expensive than the $20 flat rate.
Re:GLM-4.7-Flash on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:44AM (#46680228)
Sometimes model developers coordinate with inference platforms to time releases in sync.
Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @05:20PM (#43188925)
Wait, but we're doing that already, and it works well (Qwen 2.5 VL)? If need be, you can always resort to structured generation to enforce schema conformity?
Re:Llama 3.2 released: Multimodal, 1B to 90B sizes on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @02:03PM (#41650115)
Where do you see the MMLU-Pro evaluation for Llama 3.2 90B? On the link I only see Llama 3.2 90B evaluated against multimodal benchmarks.
Is the "Ultra Deep" analysis worth it over the standard "Deep" analysis?
Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Thursday September 12, 2024 @02:20PM (#41523892)
In the demo, O1 implements an incorrect version of the "squirrel finder" game?

The instructions state that the squirrel icon should spawn after three seconds, yet it spawns immediately in the first game (also noted by the guy doing the demo).

Edit: I'm referring to the demo video here: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/

How are flexible working hours equivalent to more money?
You can rent them online for ~ 4-5 $ per hour per GPU. Not cheap, but definitely feasible as a weekend project.
Re:Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:09PM (#39995200)
Just tried this again and I also arrive at 16.92B. Not sure what I did wrong the first time, thanks for double-checking this!
Re:Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:55AM (#39988119)
Oh, and to answer your actual question: Assuming that the model is released with 16 bits per parameter, then it as 281GB / 16 bit = 140.5 parameters.
Re:Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:52AM (#39988103)
In Mixtral 8x7B, the 8 means that the model uses Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers with 8 experts. The 7B means that if you were to remove 7 of the 8 experts in each layer, then you would end up with a 7B model (which would have exactly the same architecture as Mistral 7B). Therefore, a 1x7B model has 7B params. An 8x7B model has 1 * 7B + (8-1) * sz_expert params, where sz_expert is some constant value that the MoE layers increase by when adding one expert. In the case of Mixtral 8x7B the model size is 46.3GB, so, sz_expert ≈ 5.6B.

If these assumptions port over to 8x22B, then 8x22B has, at 281GB, sz_expert ≈ 13.8B.

Re:Martin Kleppmann talk on local-first (LoFi) on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @03:08PM (#39446232)
Hi Martin! It's Robert from Cambridge (you were my DOS :)). Glad to see your name pop up on HN!
Re:Sora: Creating video from text on Thursday February 15, 2024 @02:08PM (#39387009)
People here seem mostly impressed by the high resolution of these examples.

Based on my experience doing research on Stable Diffusion, scaling up the resolution is the conceptually easy part that only requires larger models and more high-resolution training data.

The hard part is semantic alignment with the prompt. Attempts to scale Stable Diffusion, like SDXL, have resulted only in marginally better prompt understanding (likely due to the continued reliance on CLIP prompt embeddings).

So, the key question here is how well Sora does prompt alignment.

Hmm, are you sure that translations of LLMs like ChatGPT are not incorporating cultural context?
I'm curious how they evaluated model quality. The only information I could find is "Quality: Index based on several quality benchmarks".
They could join Mistral AI, which has published weights for at least some of its models. Another option is Meta AI, which has published weights for Llama and Llama 2.
Re:Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:58AM (#38531645)
Parent post is talking about LLMs, i.e. Large LMs. Research on LLMs is indeed in its infancy.
When I try out the topics you suggest at the huggingface endpoint you link, the answer is either my question translated into Chinese, or no answer when I prompt the model in Chinese:

<User>: 历史上的“天安门广场的坦克人”有什么故事? <Assistant>:

I've tried out DeepSeek on deepseek.com and it refuses conversations about several topics censored in China (Tiananmen, Xi Jinping as Winnieh-the-Pooh).

Has anyone tried if this also happens when self-hosting the weights?

"Each atomic step would normally take over 5,000 CPU hours on a supercomputer. Now, we can do the same calculation in 2 milliseconds on a desktop,"

Is this phrase equivalent to "Each atomic step would take 5,000 hours on a desktop. Now, it takes 2 CPU milliseconds on a supercomputer."? ^^

I happen to take this train on a regular basis, and it is reliably delayed :-).

Conveniently, my connecting train is also usually sufficiently delayed so that I do not miss it.

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