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.
OPEN SOURCE
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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
… We are proud to be part of the launch of SHERKALA, which was trained on Condor Galaxy. Thank you to our partners @Inception_AI and @mbzuai -
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
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Science Thrives Through Shared Knowledge and Collaborative Effort
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> "Science is better when shared. Scientific progress is a collective effort. […] We plan to frequently publish technical blog posts, papers, and code […]"
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Open-Source AI Benchmark for Software Engineering Assessment
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As AI research advances, more realistic software engineering benchmarks are critical to assess model performance and understand socioeconomic implications. To facilitate future research, we open-source a unified Docker image and a public evaluation split, SWE-Lancer Diamond.
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Open sourcing ML models and code remains optional but desirable
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No one is obligated to open source their model+code, but it would be refreshing and delightful
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Llama 4 Announcement Expected at LlamaCon
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Llama 4 potentially will be announced on April 29 in LlamaCon
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AISuite Simplifies LLM Function Calling for Developers
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Announcing new aisuite capability: Easy function calling with LLMs! Function calling (tool use) is an important capability for agentic workflows and other LLM applications, but is cumbersome for developers to use (left column in image). Our open-source aisuite package simplifies