Two type of teams carefully follow Qwen releases:
– practitioners cutting through the hype to find the best models to run locally
– teams training state-of-the-art LLMs who knows how hard it is to beat Qwen models (notice how they are often absent from comparisons…) I’m at
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Qwen Models: Why Practitioners and AI Teams Follow Their Releases
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Hunyuan AI Model Available for Direct User Queries
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actually you can even ask to the Hunyuan model it-self 🙂
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Tencent Hunyuan-Large: New SOTA Open-Source LLM Model
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Impressive new SOTA open-source LLM in the new update of Hunyuan-Large by Tencent Model: https://
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Smol LM v2 Released: New Open-Source Language Model
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The freshly released Smol LM v2 https://
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SmolLM v2 Releases State-of-Art Small Language Models
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It’s a huge day for small models!! Super proud to release SmolLM v2 pushing the state-of-the-art performances of LLMs under 2B parameters with three sizes: 135M, 360M and 1.7B parameters. These models have been several months in the making with many lessons learned that we’ll
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Open-source democratizes robotics for developers worldwide
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Fascinating to witness firsthand what's happening in robotics at our first LeRobot Hackathon last weekend Open-source is doing to robotics what it did to software 20 years ago:
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Push for High Performance Smaller Language Models Gains Momentum
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Love seeing the push for high performance smaller language models!
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Aya-Expanse: Impressive Multilingual LLM from Cohere
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Aya-Expanse is a really impressive model if you need a highly performant pre-trained LLM (or speech) in one of the below 32 languages. Congratulation @CohereForAI and @cohere Easy to combine with speech and images as well (just play with the HF Space below) Languages: Arabic,
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Claude Privacy Policy: Legal Restructuring Over Substantive Change
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Yes definitely better for privacy – though for fairness in the case of Claude it's more moving legal pieces around than a change of policy apparently