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Research@ 2025: Sydney Team Shares AI and Language Research
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That's a wrap on our first Research@ 2025! Amazing research shared by our Sydney team: Aboriginal English Voices, Multilinguality, Hearing, Operations Research, & Open Models. Thank you to all who participated.
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Eric Simons from Bolt shares insights on AI development
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Character AI adds Chat Styles feature
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Character AI got "Chat Styles", a new feature that allows users to select between fast, balanced and in-depth responses from characters.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 18 février 2025
NYAN mode is "Smart and more thoughtful". Feels like a model selector, tbh 👀 https://t.co/a93UQkbaKo pic.twitter.com/r5Nn1eLJqZCharacter AI got "Chat Styles", a new feature that allows users to select between fast, balanced and in-depth responses from characters. NYAN mode is "Smart and more thoughtful". Feels like a model selector, tbh
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Testing prompts with Grok 3
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Give me a prompt you’d like to test with Grok 3 and I’ll share the result
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Character.AI Launches Chat Styles Feature for Customization
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Big Update: Chat Styles just dropped! Choose MEOW for speed, ROAR for balance, or NYAN for depth—customize your https://t.co/Ft9b0j3zKi experience like never before. Try it now! #CharacterAI pic.twitter.com/jyIBmELMH4
— Character.AI (@character_ai) 18 février 2025Big Update: Chat Styles just dropped! Choose MEOW for speed, ROAR for balance, or NYAN for depth—customize your http://
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SHERKALA: Revolutionary Kazakh Open-Source LLM Launched
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SHERKALA, a revolutionary Kazakh Large Language Model, is now available as an open-source model on @huggingface
: https://
huggingface.co/inceptionai/Ll
ama-3.1-Sherkala-8B-Chat
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xAI develops ‘Personas’ with unique features
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BREAKING 🚨: xAI is working on "Personas", including "unhinged" and "romance" 👀
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 18 février 2025
Chats with Personas will have a bit different colour coding. Unlike "personalities" (aka custom prompts), "personas" will likely have pre-defined system prompts and different sets of functionalities… pic.twitter.com/e6nAJvdFqIBREAKING : xAI is working on "Personas", including "unhinged" and "romance" Chats with Personas will have a bit different colour coding. Unlike "personalities" (aka custom prompts), "personas" will likely have pre-defined system prompts and different sets of functionalities
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Perplexity prioritizes maximally truthful AI outputs
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Exciting work from Perplexity – maximally truthful outputs from AI are the only way forward. I'm very optimistic on the current environment. https://
x.com/perplexity_ai/
/perplexity_ai/status/1891916573713236248
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