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‘Personalized, unrestricted’ AI lab Nous Research launches first toggle-on reasoning model: DeepHermes-3

February 17, 2025
AI reasoning models — those that produce “chains-of-thought” (CoT) in text and reflect on their own analysis to try and catch errors midstream before outputting a response — are all the rage now thanks to the likes of DeepSeek and OpenAI’s “o” series. As posted on the Nous Research account on X and in the firm’s Discord channel, this new open reasoning model is called…
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LLMs Power AI: Exploring Transformer Architecture

February 17, 2025
Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image…
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AI Agents Are Coming: Decoding Your Personality

February 17, 2025
When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was the 1980s and the agents were the four colorful ghosts in the iconic arcade game Pac-Man. By today’s standards they…
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Deep Research Comes First: OpenAI to Launch O3 for All

February 13, 2025
Earlier this month, OpenAI debuted a new AI agent powered by its upcoming full o3 reasoning AI model called “Deep Research.” As with Google’s Gemini-powered Deep Research agent released late last year, the idea behind OpenAI’s Deep Research is to provide a largely autonomous assistant that can scour the web and other digital scholarly sources for information about a topic or problem. The…
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LLMs Generalize Better with Less Hand-Labeled Training

February 13, 2025
Large Language models(LLMs) can generalize better when left to create their own solutions, a new study by Hong Kong University and University of California, Berkeley, shows. The findings, which apply to both large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs)…
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Cerebras-Perplexity deal targets $100B search market with ultra-fast AI

February 12, 2025
Cerebras Systems and Perplexity AI are joining forces to challenge the dominance of conventional search engines, announcing a partnership that promises to deliver near-instantaneous AI-powered search results at speeds previously thought impossible. The collaboration, announced in an exclusive VentureBeat report, centers on Perplexity’s new Sonar model, which runs on Cerebras’s specialized AI…
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Decoding OpenAI’s Super Bowl ad and Sam Altman’s grandiose blog post

February 11, 2025
If you were in one of the nearly 40 million U.S. households that tuned into the NFL Super Bowl LIX this year, in addition to watching the Philadelphia Eagles trounce the Kansas City Chiefs, you may have caught an advertisement for OpenAI. This is the company’s first Super Bowl ad, and it cost a reported $14 million — in keeping with the astronomical sums commanded by ads during the big game…
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