December 2024
Intermediate to advanced
10 pages
12m
English
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December 3, 2024
It’s the end of the year for Radar! We hope all of our readers enjoy the holidays. Here’s one prediction for 2025:
Is this the end of the road for improving LLM performance by scaling either the number of parameters or the training data? No one knows yet. Regardless of the answer, we expect interest to shift toward smaller models. We’ll grudgingly allow the 70B parameter model to qualify as “small,” but we really mean 20B or fewer parameters. These models will prove to be easier for companies developing AI-enabled applications to work with: They won’t cost as much to run and they’ll be simpler to fine-tune for specialized applications. Very few applications will need a fully general language model.
Artificial Intelligence
- The OpenGPT-X project has released its open large language model, Teuken-7B. This model is significant because it supports 24 European languages and is designed to be compliant with European law. It is available on Hugging Face.
- OLMo 2 is a newly released, fully open, small language model that comes in 7B and 13B sizes. Both versions claim the best performance in their group.
- NVIDIA has announced Fugatto, a new generative text-to-audio model that can create completely new kinds of sounds. They position it as a tool for creators.
- Anthropic has announced the developer preview of their Model Context Protocol. MCP allows Claude Desktop to communicate ...
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