Meta AI release Llama 3.3

Cognitive load is what matters Excellent living document (the underlying repo has 625 commits since being created in May 2023) maintained by Artem Zakirullin about minimizing the cognitive load needed to understand and maintain software. This all rings very true to me. I judge the quality of a piece of code by how easy it is to change, and...

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base No model card or announcement yet, but this new model release from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek (an arm of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer) looks very significant. It's a huge model - 685B parameters, 687.9 GB on disk (TIL how to size a git-lfs repo). The architecture is a Mixture of Experts with 256 experts, using 8 per...

I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba's Qwen team just dropped the Apache2 2 licensed QvQ-72B-Preview, "an experimental research model focusing on enhancing visual reasoning capabilities". Their blog post is titled QvQ: To See the World with Wisdom - similar flowery language to their QwQ announcement...

it's really hard not to be obsessed with these tools. It's like having a bespoke, free, (usually) accurate curiosity-satisfier in your pocket, no matter where you go - if you know how to ask questions, then suddenly the world is an audiobook — Paige Bailey Tags: gemini, llms, ai, generative-ai

[On Reddit] we had to look up every single comment on the page to see if you had voted on it [...] But with a bloom filter, we could very quickly look up all the comments and get back a list of all the ones you voted on (with a couple of false positives in there). Then we could go to the cache and see if your actual vote was there (and if it was...