News AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop Emanuel Maiberg · Jul 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.” As AI companies search for more training dat… …
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… Apple is also said to be scouting acquisitions to help advance its model-shrinking work, with one company it has reportedly considered being Liquid AI, a Massachusetts startup focused on running AI locally on devices. …
… Apple is also said to be scouting acquisitions to help advance its model-shrinking work, with one company it has reportedly considered being Liquid AI, a Massachusetts startup focused on running AI locally on devices. …
… As an example of how hard scaling experiments can be, let’s look at OpenAI’s training of GPT 4.5 . OAI’s internal code monorepo is very important for training their model as they need a validation dataset to measure perplexity against when doing training ablations that is known to be uncontaminated. …
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… Models that rely on transfer learning to gain generalized capabilities will likely require training on additional data in order to perform well in their domain of focus See: Fine tuning Validation loss Validation loss is a number that tells you how well an AI model is learning during training — and… …
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