A little over a year ago, Bosch (a German multinational engineering and technology company) announced “BoschGPT”, an custom language model developed in partnership with German startup Aleph Alpha, which was intended to serve as an internal chatbot for Bosch employees to access and query the company’s vast knowledge database. This initiative repr... Read more 17 Nov 2024 - 2 minute read
A WIRED article from August 2023 about “The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AI” resurfaced in my feed yesterday. The article, which focused on Meta’s Llama 2 release, raised concerns about the true openness of AI models. However, the field’s developments over the past 12+ months present a different picture. Since Llama 2, Meta has released Llama 3, 3.1, ... Read more 12 Nov 2024 - 1 minute read
A recent paper titled “Bongard in Wonderland: Visual Puzzles that Still Make AI Go Mad?” has garnered some attention through German tech media. The study claims to demonstrate fundamental limitations in visual language models’ (VLMs) reasoning capabilities. However, upon closer examination of their methodology and code implementation, several is... Read more 02 Nov 2024 - 2 minute read
For those who do NOT use AI or are skeptical, I’ve put together a short, no-frills 7:48 medley from recent OpenAI webinars for business. I’m not advocating the use of these tools, but I think it’s useful for everyone to get a quick yet faithful yet optimistic impression: Pink remarks in the Clip on YouTube are mine. [Update 2025-01-02] Wirtsc... Read more 14 Apr 2025 (Updated) - 1 minute read
Motivated by starkly different results from different Llama 3.1 405B providers on one hand, and claims - particulary derived from the Chatbot Arena that quantized versions are no different on the other hand, I have been wishing for a telltale sign that 1) conclusively proves otherwise and 2) tells providers apart. Good news: Simon Willison has s... Read more 26 Oct 2024 - less than 1 minute read