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Largest known prime number Discovered on 12th October 2024 by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. The new largest prime number is 2136279841-1 - 41,024,320 digits long. Via Kellan's link blog Tags: mathematics

A year ago today I wrote about Tom Scott's legendary 10 year YouTube streak, in which he posted a new video once a week for the next ten years. Inspired by that, I also started my own. I set myself the goal of posting something to my blog every day for a year. Given how much happened in my chosen field of Large Language Models over the course of...

Timeline of AI model releases in 2024 VB assembled this detailed timeline of every significant AI model release in 2024, for both API and open weight models. I'd hoped to include something like this in my 2024 review - I'm glad I didn't bother, because VB's is way better than anything I had planned. VB built it with assistance from DeepSeek v3,...

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here's a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments. This is a sequel to my review of 2023. In this article: The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those...

Basically, a frontier model like OpenAI’s O1 is like a Ferrari SF-23. It’s an obvious triumph of engineering, designed to win races, and that’s why we talk about it. But it takes a special pit crew just to change the tires and you can’t buy one for yourself. In contrast, a BERT model is like a Honda Civic. It’s also an engineering triumph, but...