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NuExtract 1.5 Structured extraction - where an LLM helps turn unstructured text (or image content) into structured data - remains one of the most directly useful applications of LLMs. NuExtract is a family of small models directly trained for this purpose, and released under the MIT license. It comes in a variety of shapes and sizes:...

Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 One of the options is slop! slop (n.): Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic, or inaccurate. Via @dloss Tags: slop, ethics,...

Recraft V3 Recraft are a generative AI design tool startup based out of London who released their v3 model a few weeks ago. It's currently sat at the top of the Artificial Analysis Image Arena Leaderboard, beating Midjourney and Flux 1.1 pro. The thing that impressed me is that it can generate both raster and vector graphics... and the vector...

OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Reading this investigation of the security boundaries of OpenAI's Code Interpreter environment helped me realize that the rules for OpenAI's public bug bounty inadvertently double as the missing details for a whole bunch of different aspects of their platform. This description of Code Interpreter is significantly more...

Anthropic declined to comment, but referred Bloomberg News to a five-hour podcast featuring Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei that was released Monday. "People call them scaling laws. That's a misnomer," he said on the podcast. "They're not laws of the universe. They're empirical regularities. I am going to bet in favor of them continuing, but...