… Now Anthropic’s CEO has published his own thoughts on the matter, clarifying, “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.” Link: Our position on open-weights models | https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models | Anthropic
Kolter laid out OpenAI’s different safety groups: the safety systems team, which works on guardrails and evaluations; the preparedness team, which deals with OpenAI’s preparedness framework; the alignment team, which helps train models on ways that “align with human values”; the model policy team, … …
… Smart glasses in general, and Meta’s in particular, have ignited controversy over their ability to stealthily capture photos and videos. …
After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. …
… The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a “teacher” of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the “student.” Although it’s often used legitimately within companies using one of their own AI models to train another, it’… …
… But the company was careful to say in a release that it has stronger cybersecurity safeguards than its predecessor, Opus 4.8, and that it’s “the most aligned Opus model and is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse.” With the new model’s release, the company also seems to subtly address… …
… It’s had some impressive results with models like MAI-Transcribe-1, a speech-to-text model that works across 25 different languages. But most of Microsoft’s own AI models have been very task specific or smaller in size compared to OpenAI’s large language models. …
… But Microsoft’s IP rights for OpenAI’s models and products were extended through 2032 — and Microsoft’s rights included models even after an independent panel theoretically declares AGI had been reached. …
… However, the most powerful on-device Apple Intelligence model that allows you to customize Siri’s voice and offers improved accuracy in dictation will require an M3 chip or later with a minimum of 12GB of memory — leaving out the Neo and its 8GB of memory.
… As far as distillation and improper information harvesting, there’s Anthropic’s accusations to Chinese AI companies and xAI’s alleged distillation of OpenAI’s models. …