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Claude Opus 4.8 2 months ago

Sadly I think the correlation between this benchmark and performance is starting to break down imo. Still a legendary idea will be remembered and ingrained in the models forever haha

Honestly happy he’s back at a foundation lab. He will have insane impact there. Of course one of the best educators in the world it’s a bit sad he gave up building and education tool.

Main reason to me is that its layers on layer on top of the base LLM calls with not so much to show for it. Also a lot of native features (like for examples geminis native structured responses) aren't well supported.

Im honestly not that much worried there are some obvious problems (exfiltrate data labeled as sensitive, take actions that are costly, delete/change sensitive resources) if you have a properly compliant infrastructure all these actions need confirmations logging etc. for humans this seemed more like a neusance but now it seems essential. And all these systems are actually much much easier to setup.

LLM Year in Review 7 months ago

It’s funny how every podcaster/public ai figure is so certain text as a Ui will go away and it’s not going anywhere.

Mistral OCR 3 7 months ago

3 flash is also insanely good even slightly outperforms 3 pro for me.

Yep fully agreed the main thing is to break apart the systems so any retries don’t lead to issues like you mentioned.

I do still think there is sufficient amount of boilerplate to potentially justify some engine like this.

Im pretty deep into this topic and what might be interesting to an outsider is that the leading models like neuralgcm/weathernext 1 before as well as this model now are all trained with a "crps" objective which I haven't seen at all outside of ml weather prediction.

Essentially you add random noise to the inputs and train by minimizing the regular loss (like l1) and at the same time maximizing the difference between 2 members with different random noise initialisations. I wonder if this will be applied to more traditional genai at some point.