AI breakthrough
That makes it sound like there’s something actually new here, but it seems like it’s just a Chinese company getting closer to what "Open"AI / Anthropic already have.
It’s nice that these things are open source, but from a technological view this isn’t a breakthrough.
It’s nice that these things are open source
Thanks, didn’t know that!
It feels like nitpicking, but there’s a relevant difference here. If you can only access the weights (and not the training data and the learning algorithms used), it’s hard to get (say) a Chinese model to freely talk about Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Just tried it locally on Deepseek R1; it’s doable, but takes some prompt hacking.) The models may be freely available, but there’s bias and censorship baked into them.
Dunno about getting ‘closer’ but glm-5.2 is indistiguishable from what I got before from claude and openai while being cheaper.
of course the bigger story here is that there is a LITE version of CNN on which uBlock and Privacy Badger find nothing to block!
