After beating humans at everything from the game of Go to strategy board games, Google DeepMind now says it is on the verge of besting the world’s top students at solving mathematics problems.
The London-based machine-learning company announced on 25 July that its artificial intelligence (AI) systems had solved four of the six problems that were given to school students at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Bath, UK, this month. The AI produced rigorous, step-by-step proofs that were marked by two top mathematicians and earned a score of 28/42 — just one point shy of the gold-medal range.
… DeepMind and other companies are in a race to eventually have machines give proofs that would solve substantial research questions in maths. Problems set at the IMO — the world’s premier competition for young mathematicians — have become a benchmark for progress towards that goal, and have come to be seen as a “grand challenge” for machine learning, the company says. — Read More
Daily Archives: July 26, 2024
Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet
Back in April, Meta teased that it was working on a first for the AI industry: an open-source model with performance that matched the best private models from companies like OpenAI.
Today, that model has arrived. Meta is releasing Llama 3.1, the largest-ever open-source AI model, which the company claims outperforms GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks. It’s also making the Llama-based Meta AI assistant available in more countries and languages while adding a feature that can generate images based on someone’s specific likeness. CEO Mark Zuckerberg now predicts that Meta AI will be the most widely used assistant by the end of this year, surpassing ChatGPT. — Read More
AI arms race escalates: OpenAI offers free GPT-4o Mini fine-tuning to counter Meta’s Llama 3.1 release
OpenAI has intensified the AI arms race by announcing free fine-tuning for its GPT-4o Mini model, just hours after Meta launched its open-source Llama 3.1 model.
While OpenAI had teased the imminent arrival of customization features in last week’s GPT-4o Mini announcement, the timing of this release couldn’t have been more perfect—or more pointed. Just hours after Meta released its Llama 3.1 model, OpenAI fired back with its own offering. Coincidence? Perhaps. But in the high-stakes competition for AI dominance, such precise moves rarely happen by chance. — Read More
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