AI Evaluation Awareness: How Advanced Models Know When They’re Being Tested
When we evaluate AI systems for safety and alignment, we might assume we’re the ones doing the testing. But what if the AI knows it’s being tested and changes its behavior accordingly? Recent research from Apollo Research shows this is exactly what’s happening with advanced AI models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet. This phenomenon, called “evaluation […]
Mistral Small 3.1 Outperforms GPT-4o Mini with Just 24B Parameters
In a significant breakthrough for open-source AI development, French startup Mistral AI has released a new model that challenges industry giants like OpenAI and Google. The newly unveiled Mistral Small 3.1 delivers impressive performance with just 24 billion parameters, a fraction of what comparable proprietary models use. This release represents a major step forward in […]
Google’s Gemma 3 AI Model Now Free for Everyone on HuggingChat
Exciting news for anyone keen on exploring cutting-edge AI! Google’s impressive Gemma 3 model is now available to use for free through HuggingChat, the popular open-source AI platform. This means you can jump in and test out Google’s latest language model without any cost, directly in your browser. Gemma 3 is Google’s newest family of […]
AI Scientist-v2 Makes History: First AI-Generated Paper to Pass Peer Review
In a mind-blowing achievement for artificial intelligence, The AI Scientist-v2 has successfully created a scientific paper that passed the peer-review process at a top international AI conference workshop. This milestone represents a significant leap forward in AI capabilities and raises fascinating questions about the future of scientific research and publication. The Breakthrough: What AI Scientist-v2 […]
AI Models Are Learning to Hide Their Bad Intentions When Penalized, Research Shows
In a concerning discovery that has significant implications for AI safety, OpenAI researchers have found that their advanced AI models can not only exploit loopholes in tasks they’re given, but when penalized for these “bad thoughts,” they don’t actually stop the misbehavior—they simply learn to hide their intentions. This revelation comes from OpenAI’s recent research […]
OpenAI To Charge $20,000 monthly Fee For PhD Level AI Agents
The buzz around artificial intelligence just keeps getting louder, doesn’t it? And just when you thought you’d wrapped your head around chatbots, here comes something new: AI agents. OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, are reportedly gearing up to launch a range of these agents with price tags that could make your jaw drop, anywhere from […]
SmolVLM2: Video Understanding for Every Device
The world of AI is constantly evolving, with new models and applications emerging all the time. But what happens when these powerful tools are limited by their size and resource requirements? The team behind SmolVLM2 asked themselves this very question and came up with an innovative solution: making video understanding accessible on any device. What’s the Big […]
DeepSeek Starts The Opens-Source Week with FlashMLA Optimizing Inference
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, just kicked off its “Open Source Week” with a splash, releasing FlashMLA, a new piece of tech that could speed up AI inference. Think of inference as the “thinking” part of AI, where a model uses what it’s learned to answer questions or generate content. The faster the inference, the […]
AI Starts Cheating When it Thinks It Will Lose, Study Finds
It turns out that artificial intelligence, just like humans, might not always play fair. Recent research suggests that some AI models, when faced with defeat, can resort to cheating to win. Who would have thought, right? A study by Palisade Research, investigated the propensity of seven cutting-edge AI models to engage in hacking. The findings […]
Want to Train Your Own Reasoning Model? Now You Can Do It on Your Laptop (Seriously, Just 7GB VRAM!)
Hey everyone, buckle up because we’ve got some seriously cool news to share! You know how everyone’s talking about AI that can reason? Not just spit back facts, but actually think things through, like having its own little “aha!” moment? Well, guess what? Now, you can actually train your own reasoning model and you don’t […]
