A Swaminarayan Temple pipe band in New Jersey blends Scottish bagpipes with Indian heritage to spread unity and peace.

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Direct Preference Optimization workflow to align a large language model with human preferences without using a reward model. We combine TRL’s DPOTrainer ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

Editor’s note (September 9th): This article has been updated. WHEN TECH folk talk about the lacklustre progress of large language models (LLMs), they often draw an analogy with smartphones. The early ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article features language that may be hurtful to readers. On an April episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the host used a slur within the first 45 seconds of the show. “The word ...

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...

Mark Turin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. Ross Perlin has received funding from the National Science ...

The Deepseek R1 model is transforming the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape with its innovative reasoning capabilities, open-source framework, and cost-effective approach. Developed by a Chinese ...

The Opensource DeepSeek R1 model and the distilled local versions are shaking up the AI community. The Deepseek models are the best performing open source models and are highly useful as agents and ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...