As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI) engineering. Three years on, experts are harder to impress. To really ...

Have you ever found yourself deep in the weeds of training a language model, wishing for a simpler way to make sense of its learning process? If you’ve struggled with the complexity of configuring ...

Though new regulatory frameworks address fairness, accountability, and safety in AI systems, they often fail to directly mitigate the subtle communication bias in LLMs that can distort public ...

A new academic study challenges a core assumption in developing large language models (LLMs), warning that more pre-training data may not always lead to better models. Researchers from some of the ...

Once, the world’s richest men competed over yachts, jets and private islands. Now, the size-measuring contest of choice is clusters. Just 18 months ago, OpenAI trained GPT-4, its then state-of-the-art ...

Mark Stevenson has previously received funding from Google. The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new ...

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...

OpenAI released a new base model on Thursday called GPT-4.5, which the company said is its best and smartest model for chat yet. It’s not a reasoning model like OpenAI’s o1 and o3 models, but it can ...