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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/12/notes-on-googles-gemma-3/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes on Google’s Gemma 3 Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemma team released an impressive new model today (under their not-open-source Gemma license). Gemma 3 comes in four sizes – 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B – and while 1B is text-only the larger three models are all multi-modal for…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Reportedly Develops LLM Series That Can Rival OpenAI, Anthropic Models

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/08/0018225/microsoft-reportedly-develops-llm-series-that-can-rival-openai-anthropic-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Reportedly Develops LLM Series That Can Rival OpenAI, Anthropic Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is working on a new series of large language models (LLMs) called MAI, which aims to compete with existing models from OpenAI and Anthropic. This development may leverage Microsoft’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/5/qwq-32b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning Feedly Summary: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning New Apache 2 licensed reasoning model from Qwen: We are excited to introduce QwQ-32B, a model with 32 billion parameters that achieves performance comparable to DeepSeek-R1, which boasts 671 billion parameters…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/ethan-mollick/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered a 10^26 FLOP model and cost a few tens of millions of dollars to train, though future models will be much bigger. —…

  • Hacker News: GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?

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    Source URL: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/gpt-45-not-a-frontier-model Source: Hacker News Title: GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the release of OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 and analyzes its capabilities, implications, and performance compared to previous models. It discusses the model’s scale, pricing, and the evolving landscape of AI scaling, presenting insights…

  • Hacker News: Google’s Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI

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    Source URL: https://gizmodo.com/googles-sergey-brin-says-engineers-should-work-60-hour-weeks-in-office-to-build-ai-that-could-replace-them-2000570025 Source: Hacker News Title: Google’s Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Sergey Brin’s recent directive to Google engineers to return to the office five days a week underscores the urgency to enhance AI models in a competitive…

  • Hacker News: The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet-the-journalists-training-ai-models-for-meta-and-openai/ Source: Hacker News Title: The journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the increasing trend of journalists transitioning to data-related roles, particularly in AI model training, due to economic pressures in traditional journalism. It highlights how…

  • Slashdot: DeepSeek Accelerates AI Model Timeline as Market Reacts To Low-Cost Breakthrough

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/25/1533243/deepseek-accelerates-ai-model-timeline-as-market-reacts-to-low-cost-breakthrough?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepSeek Accelerates AI Model Timeline as Market Reacts To Low-Cost Breakthrough Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rapid development and competitive advancements of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, as it prepares to launch its R2 model. This model aims to capitalize on its…

  • The Register: Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/shaking_off_wall_street_jitters/ Source: The Register Title: Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure Feedly Summary: Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on Comment Despite persistent worries that vast spending on AI infrastructure may not pay for itself,…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/new-a4x-vms-powered-by-nvidia-gb200-gpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing A4X VMs powered by NVIDIA GB200 — now in preview Feedly Summary: The next frontier of AI is reasoning models that think critically and learn during inference to solve complex problems. To train and serve this new class of models, you need infrastructure with the performance and…