After 6+ months in the making and burning over a year of GPU compute time, we're super excited to finally release the "Ultra-Scale Playbook" Check it out here: http://
hf.co/spaces/nanotro
n/ultrascale-playbook
… A free, open-source, book to learn everything about 5D parallelism, ZeRO, fast CUDA kernels,
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Ultra-Scale Playbook: 5D Parallelism and CUDA Optimization Guide
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Phi-4 Model Release: 40% Synthetic Data Composition
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Grok 3 context window size clarification
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What is Grok 3 context window again? The post from @arnogau referring to a 1M context window has been removed
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Open-source models as path to uncensored AI releases
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TBH, releasing an open-source model is probably the closest thing the DeepSeek engineers could do, if they wanted to release an uncensored model.
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Perplexity Releases Uncensored R1 1776 DeepSeek Model
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An uncensored version of R1 is released https://
huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/
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… “R1 1776 is a DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model that has been post-trained by @perplexity_ai to remove Chinese Communist Party censorship. The model provides unbiased, accurate, and factual information while -
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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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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Open Science Advances with LLM Frontier Research and Deployments
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Excited for more open science with LLM frontier research and deployments!
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Perplexity Open-Sources R1 1776 Model
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Perplexity has open-sourced R1 1776 and its weights are now available on Hugging Face. "R1 1776 is a DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model that has been post-trained by Perplexity AI to remove Chinese Communist Party censorship." https://x.com/perplexity_ai/perplexity_ai/status/1891916573713236248