I didn't realize the lead author was also on X, here is his thread on the paper (and links): https://
x.com/mpshanahan/sta
tus/1950587921666281595
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GENERATIVE AI
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Lead Author Discusses Research Paper on X Platform
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8B Model Multi-Turn Tool Calling Capabilities
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I'd really love to see an 8B model with reliable multi-turn tool calling, if one exists I've not experienced it yet
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DeepSeek-R1 Model Renaming Controversy and Version Changes
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(Honestly I'm still salty about that time you renamed the deepseek-r1:8B to point at DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B when it had previously pointed at DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B)
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Model Tagging Practices: Qwen3-30B Versioning Confusion
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I really want you to be more careful with your tag designs! Now there's a Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 but you've already burned the qwen3:30b tag on Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
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Improving GenAI Model Evaluation: Rubric-Based Methods for Agentic Systems
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Your GenAI model might be underperforming, and you wouldn’t know. Outdated eval methods miss hidden failure modes in agentic systems. Rubric-based evaluation fixes that. What it is & why it matters https://
snorkel.ai/blog/data-qual
ity-and-rubrics-how-to-build-trust-in-your-models/
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DeepSeek’s Quiet Months: Latest R1-0528 Model Family
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… and I didn't even mention DeepSeek! They've had a quiet couple of months, their last model release was the DeepSeek-R1-0528 family back in May
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Mistral AI upgrades Codestral with enterprise coding stack
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Mistral AI released an upgrade to their Codestral model and announced a complete coding stack for Enterprise customers.
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Chinese AI Labs Release Major Models: Kimi, GLM, Qwen
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July has been a truly incredible month for model releases from China – Moonshot (Kimi K2), http://
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