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Research from AI testing company Giskard has found that instructing AI chatbots to provide concise answers significantly increases their tendency to hallucinate, particularly for ambiguous topics. The study showed that l...
FutureHouse Launches 'Finch' AI Tool for Biology Research
FutureHouse, a nonprofit backed by Eric Schmidt, has released a biology-focused AI tool called 'Finch' that analyzes research papers to answer scientific questions and generate figures. The CEO compared it to a "first ye...
Ai2 Releases High-Performance Small Language Model Under Open License
Nonprofit AI research institute Ai2 has released Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter AI model that outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, Meta, and Alibaba on several benchmarks. The model is available under the pe...
Microsoft Launches Powerful Small-Scale Reasoning Models in Phi 4 Series
Microsoft has introduced three new open AI models in its Phi 4 family: Phi 4 mini reasoning, Phi 4 reasoning, and Phi 4 reasoning plus. These models specialize in reasoning capabilities, with the most advanced version ac...
JetBrains Releases Open Source AI Coding Model with Technical Limitations
JetBrains has released Mellum, an open AI model specialized for code completion, under the Apache 2.0 license. Trained on 4 trillion tokens and containing 4 billion parameters, the model requires fine-tuning before use a...
DeepSeek Updates Prover V2 for Advanced Mathematical Reasoning
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an upgraded version of its mathematics-focused AI model Prover V2, built on their V3 model with 671 billion parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture. The company, which prev...
Alibaba Launches Qwen3 Models with Advanced Reasoning Capabilities
Alibaba has released Qwen3, a family of AI models with sizes ranging from 0.6 billion to 235 billion parameters, claiming performance competitive with top models from Google and OpenAI. The models feature hybrid reasonin...
Anthropic Launches Research Program on AI Consciousness and Model Welfare
Anthropic has initiated a research program to investigate what it terms "model welfare," exploring whether AI models could develop consciousness or experiences that warrant moral consideration. The program, led by dedica...
OpenAI's Reasoning Models Show Increased Hallucination Rates
OpenAI's new reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, are exhibiting higher hallucination rates than their predecessors, with o3 hallucinating 33% of the time on OpenAI's PersonQA benchmark and o4-mini reaching 48%. Researchers...
OpenAI Releases Advanced AI Reasoning Models with Enhanced Visual and Coding Capabilities
OpenAI has launched o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and think through questions before responding, with significant improvements in math, coding, reasoning, science, and visual understanding cap...