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"Together, they mark the next step on our scaling ladder and a major leap toward personal superintelligence." "Two models often have similar benchmark scores, yet one seems to handle a much wider range of unfamiliar tasks." "That’s what complaints of "benchmaxxing" and praise for "big model smell" both get at: a breadth of capability that popular benchmarks in a few domains can’t fully capture." "To quantify this mismatch, we investigate how performance on tasks targeted during post-training...
30 years old and still as kool as ever. It definitely aged better than most people I know...
"In response to user feedback, we’ve removed built-in AI from the open-source versions. AI tools are installed separately." Sane choice. Let's hope it'll stay like this as long as possible, because users should never have to complain for AI to be removed by default.
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Enforcing UTF-8 as the default encoding for I/O operations typically shows how technical debt can grow in the Python world (and it can still be disabled in many different ways for interoperability purpose). As for the JIT (in CPython), some reports estimate speed improvements of 10%, which is far from PyPy and Pyston performances but the work has just very recently started.
Intelligence has always been what was missing in Artificial Intelligence. Great to see it's finally been added now.
It's already been existing for many years now. It's called "Steam search", where you can find an infinite number of sloppy, broken and ugly games pretending to be AAA games, by entering only few words — no coding required.
Good news (even for non-Chrome users) because JXL gives much better results for photographies than Webp (that is still average but still much better than JPEG) and could even be better than AVIF (that is already very alright, and even supports animations and transparency). And given how much Google contributed to develop JXL, become coming around for whatever reason to not really support it (citing slow adoption), it makes sense to enable it, even if Firefox enabled it only recently. So it...
Well, if this 1T params model is a "chonk", it would be Garfield trying to get few lasagna meals a day, when other frontier models are cheetahs eating data as much as their weight for breakfast. It's priced much more than most Chinese models, and just as much as medium-sized closed US models (that are permanently on sale; actually, Le Chonk is also on a 50% sale), Mistral will certainly hardly earn much money with it. But once more, EU tries to catch up with China and US, so let's not complain.
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Chrome OS is based on Gentoo that is utterly patched to run Android apps, when Googlebook OS is based on Android. But the real strategy behind it is to sell premium ($900+) computers instead of very cheap ones ($150-$400), to integrate Gemini as much as possible (since a decent NPU is required). It's no longer an operating system but an "intelligence system", said Google that is slowly loosing its mind.
TypeSafe is this tool/API where you ask "what's the color of the sky?" with a set a possible answers "blue, white, gray, red" and the model responds: "blue: 81%, white: 12%, gray: 4%, red: 2%". It's some kind of basic fuzzy logic, and companies like that: "how we fire Bob?", "yes, no", the model responds "yes: 51%, no: 49%", and Bob is out of job.
Yep, "Dots" is a (Linux) virtual machine stored at OpenAI (i.e. one of the giant datacenters owned by Microsoft and al, or leased by Oracle) that is an agent receiving commands and doing stuff, like Muse, and would be the same security or privacy hell than Muse, where you whole unmetered life is no longer confined to your own computer but completely exposed (using services you've connected) to a company desperate to get new data to train its models. Many people have great fun using Muse to...
"Amazon is no longer included as a built-in search engine." Yep, Mozilla used to receive some money from Amazon as affiliate partner (far less than from Google which is about 90% of Mozilla revenues) and it seems it's no longer the case (despite no official announcement but it wasn't a deal, just a partnership).
Design-wise, it's the same Firefox, with more spacing and margins (the only thing that compact/standard/touch modes changes, the icon keeps the same size, a little too small) and...
You're right to note write an article each time a new version of Cosmic pops up, the team is trying to fix a many issues as possible on short cycles to offering something functional enough on Pop OS (since it became the default DE on it last December), but the whole project still feel like a beta version, certainly for some few more years. It's still a great progression since its inception only two years ago though.
Technically, list were supported in all spreadsheets as "={ apple ; banana ; tomato }" but now with displayed as one line and with a fancy editor, but it also support nested list (still with peculiar syntax "={ { apple ; { banana } } ; { tomato } }") which is new, and maybe not that useful. So it's straightforward enough for other spreadsheets to implement it in next weeks, at least to be able to still open XLSX files, without waiting for Microsoft to create another standardized version (i.e....
Microsoft: Our products are great, it's the user that are stupid, so let's redesign them once again to annoy the current users without getting new ones... It's the tenth redesign now, it evolved to a mess. why nobody still doesn't like our products?
The Release Candidates were solid, the interface is clean and fast, settings are buried in different levels of menu so it's more difficult to find them all. But the packages list is updated at each launch so the app is useless during the first 10-20s since selecting an app only shows a loader. I guess it was just during testing and the final version will update the packages list in background.
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So now, because of this "preserved thinking" and watermarking, if Chinese models still improve over the time, Anthropic could no longer accuse them to steal its work, and will have to admit they just get better (and cheaper) on their own. As of the price, it's 20% cheaper than Opus 5 ($4/$20 for i/o M tokens), but thanks to well-known Anthropic's Magic Maths, it's 40% cheaper (some internal tests seem to prove it, just trust them).