Why have language models become so impressive? Many people say that it's the size of the models. The large in 'large language models' has been thought to be key to the models' success: as the number ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers compiled a list of 204 tasks ...

For frontier AI models, when it rains, it pours. Mistral released a fresh new flagship model on Wednesday, Large 2, which it claims to be on par with the latest cutting-edge models from OpenAI and ...

During its first-ever developer conference on Monday, OpenAI previewed GPT-4 Turbo, a brand new version of the large language model that powers its flagship product, ChatGPT. The newest model is ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Meta AI chief Yann LeCun (right) have differing views on the future of large language models. In case you haven’t heard, artificial intelligence is the hot new thing.

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of PaLM 2, its newest large language model (LLM). PaLM 2 will power Google’s updated Bard chat tool, the company’s competitor to ...

Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. By Oliver Whang When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better. Large language models ...

And that's a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models. Two years ago, Yuri Burda and Harri ...

In December 2023, Singapore launched a S$70m (US$52m) initiative to build research and engineering capabilities in multimodal large language models (LLMs), including the development of Sea-Lion ...

Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense. On November 15 Meta unveiled a new large language model called Galactica, designed to assist ...