Author: Hunter

The new 24B-parameter LLM ‘excels in scenarios where quick, accurate responses are critical.’ In fact, the model can be run on a MacBook with 32GB RAM. Read more

Government employees can get a free year of this popular AI tool – a $200 value. Read more

The critical issue of restricted access to high-quality reasoning datasets has limited open-source AI-driven logical and mathematical reasoning advancements. While proprietary models have leveraged structured reasoning demonstrations to enhance performance, these datasets and methodologies remain closed, restricting independent research and innovation. The lack of open, scalable reasoning datasets has created a bottleneck for AI development.… Read more

Google is trying out a new tool that lets AI call businesses to ask questions for you. The feature, called Ask for Me, collects information about the pricing and availability of a service, but it’s only available for nail salons and auto shops for now. Once you enable the experiment on Google Search Labs, you… Read more

A Logitech webcam similar to (but not the same as) the one we used. Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete practically all the background noise from our audio calls with a free app, and now the company’s doing it again. My colleague and Verge senior… Read more

A new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original features that could go on to become awards season darlings in a few months. It might be hard to top last year’s festival where Dìdi, A Different Man, and I Saw the TV Glow all made strong showings. But… Read more

The new Model Y comes with the latest HW4 computer. In 2016, Tesla published a blog that said all EVs it produces have the hardware necessary to achieve “Full Self-Driving,” meaning owners of those Teslas could look forward to autonomous rides and could eventually send their cars out as money-making robotaxis when not in use.… Read more

Here are two ways to try R1 without exposing your data to foreign servers. Read more

On an earnings call last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent a lot of time talking up his company’s plans to “go ballistic” on artificial intelligence, and very little time on Tesla’s core business, which is making and selling electric cars. There was so little attention paid to Tesla’s automotive business, that even a bunch… Read more

Missed out on all the terrific TV deals we saw during Black Friday and Cyber Monday? That’s okay, because the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl have historically been one of the better times of the year to snag a discounted set. In fact, Amazon, Best Buy, Woot, and a number of retailers are… Read more