DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models

Is distributed training the future of AI? As the shock of the DeepSeek release fades, its legacy may be an awareness that alternative approaches to model training are worth exploring, and DeepMind ...
Geeky Gadgets

PicoLM Framework: Simplifying Language Model Training and Analysis

Have you ever found yourself deep in the weeds of training a language model, wishing for a simpler way to make sense of its learning process? If you’ve struggled with the complexity of configuring ...
Ars Technica

How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion

In April 2023, a few weeks after the launch of GPT-4, the Internet went wild for two new software projects with the audacious names BabyAGI and AutoGPT. “Over the past week, developers around the ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

A new method to steer AI output uncovers vulnerabilities and potential improvements

A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside these models. The new method could lead to more reliable, more efficient, ...
The Economist

Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still

As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI) engineering. Three years on, experts are harder to impress. To really ...
The Economist

Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

Once, the world’s richest men competed over yachts, jets and private islands. Now, the size-measuring contest of choice is clusters. Just 18 months ago, OpenAI trained GPT-4, its then state-of-the-art ...