Ask how much a single chatbot query costs the planet and the answers scatter wildly: anywhere from a tenth of a watt-hour to several watt-hours, and from five drops of water to roughly 45 millilitres. None of those figures is invented. Each measures a different thing, on a different model, inside a different data centre … Read more
A team at MIT has identified a striking parallel between artificial intelligence and biology: six large language models exhibit the same modular organization of four cognitive domains that neuroscientists have described in the human brain. The study, authored by Pengrui Han, Jacob Andreas, Evelina Fedorenko, and Andrea Gregor de Varda, was submitted to arXiv on … Read more
Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model nicknamed “Le Chonk” — the French lab’s most ambitious bid yet to plant a European flag at the AI frontier, and its loudest argument for open weights. It is live in public preview now, but the full checkpoint stays behind a guarded endpoint, with the … Read more