Nov 13, 2024

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Man with tools says, “I optimized for tool use!” Woman at computer replies, “Should’ve optimized for computer use!”
Nov 13, 2024

From Optimizing for People to Optimizing for Machines: Why large language models are increasingly fine-tuned to fit into agentic workflows

Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.
Man with tools says, “I optimized for tool use!” Woman at computer replies, “Should’ve optimized for computer use!”
Nov 13, 2024

Llama On the Battlefield, Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead, Open Agentic Platform, Voter Support Chatbot

The Batch AI News and Insights: Large language models (LLMs) are typically optimized to answer peoples’ questions.
OpenDevin animation illustrating open-source AI model collaboration.
Nov 13, 2024

Free Agents: OpenHands launches as an open toolkit for advanced code generation and automation

An open source package inspired by the commercial agentic code generator Devin aims to automate computer programming and more.
User entering ZIP code ‘94103’ in U.S. General Election ballot lookup to view contests and candidates.
Nov 13, 2024

Voter’s Helper: Perplexity’s AI-powered U.S. election hub assists voters with verified, real-time news and insights

Some voters navigated last week’s United States elections with help from a large language model that generated output based on verified, nonpartisan information.
Llama wearing a camouflage helmet, looking determined with a light blue background.
Nov 13, 2024

Big AI Pursues Military Contracts: Meta and Anthropic open doors for AI in U.S. defense and national security

Two top AI companies changed their stances on military and intelligence applications.
Model performance comparison across English, Chinese, Math, and Code tasks, with Hunyuan-Large leading.
Nov 13, 2024

Mixture of Experts Pulls Ahead: Hunyuan-Large outshines open competitors with high benchmark scores

A new open source large language model outperforms competitors, including the open-weights Llama 3.1 405B, on a variety of benchmarks.

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