In the past few years, the AI world has shifted from a culture of open collaboration to one dominated by closely guarded proprietary systems. OpenAI – a company literally founded with “open” in its name – pivoted to keeping its most powerful models secret after 2019. Competitors like Anthropic and Google similarly built cutting-edge AI […]<br /> The post Open-Source AI Strikes Back [...]
Microsoft's recent release of Phi-4-reasoning challenges a key assumption in building artificial intelligence systems capable of reasoning. Since the introduction of chain-of-thought reasoning in 2022, researchers believed that advanced reasoning required very large language models with hundreds of billions of parameters. However, Microsoft’s new 14-billion parameter model, Phi-4-reasoning, [...]
Enterprises often find that when they fine-tune models, one effective approach to making a large language model (LLM) fit for purpose and grounded in data is to have the model lose some of its abilities. After fine-tuning, some models “forget” how to perform certain tasks or other tasks they already learned. Research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign proposes a new method for r [...]
Wholesome Direct, an annual showcase of cute and cozy games, is returning on Saturday, June 7 at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. This year's event will show off "a vibrant lineup of artistic, uplifting, and emotionally resonant games from developers of all sizes from around the world," according to Wholesome Games' announcement post. <br /> Last year's Wholesome Direct covered ov [...]