Some of these guys sound like they erase their fingerprints off the plates when they visit a restaurant, and ask people to forget about them when done talking.
Like it or not, as web gets more complex, it will recognize you more. If you don't want that, just don't use the web - perhaps buy a farm and life off-grid.
I just don't get what's the appeal to this endless damn cat and mouse game.
So you're basically saying the old "I have nothing to hide" argument which has been debunked over a million times...
In particular because "I have nothing to hide" means "I have nothing to hide until now, and because of the corporations and states that have access to my data are lead right now by people I trust not to misuse that data"
But if tomorrow the government change, and suddenly your searches for "gay bars near my location" becomes illegal, you'd rather this info not be in everyone's hands...
Lack of privacy harms journalism and activism, making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.
Goycattle like yourself ought to be executed for the sheer stupidity of your opinions. Privacy is the only reasonable response to the unhinged behavior of web advertisers, who will spend trillions of dollars and decades of research, who will bribe politicians, who will do everything in their power to figure out the shape of your butthole so they can perfectly optimize which sex toy ads to show you. It is utterly psychotic behavior and pretending it is anything else is the either dumbest or most malicious thing anyone has ever done in the last century. If restaurants were to frantically scan their dirty plates for fingerprints after customers are done eating, the customers would be damn right to try to wipe their fingerprints off. Obviously that isn't necessary, because restaurant owners aren't completely out of their minds. So why does the web have to be this way?
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising... kill yourself..."
Hi there! I'm Tom. I worked on Kolibri at Aleph Alpha :)
I think it's not simple to directly compare a 27B dense model with an MoE model like ours. As we know, dense models need all params active for every token. Whereas, MoE models (especially sparse ones like Kolibri) fewer active parameters and correspondingly less compute per token.
Among the MoE models we compared against in our tech report and model card, though, Kolibri performs very well in our evaluation, including against models with 12B active parameters. It also best model in the group we tested within that range of active params.
So, I think it's fairer to see this as a trade-off. Kolibri needs less compute per token but more memory, while Qwen3.8 27B needs far less memory and more compute per token. In the report, both are actually on the quality-vs-serving-cost Pareto frontier among the models we evaluated, just at different points.
That's the beauty of Apache 2.0! People can just serve it :) there were a few kind community members offering this for free the last few days. I think there are still some, e.g., Tesseracted.
It’s an incentive problem. If “sovereign” becomes your claimed value proposition, you can claim success even if the models not competitive, so nobody is pushed sufficiently hard to actually make it good.
Sovereign works when talking about building a commodity supply or something, not in literally the world’s most competitive and fast moving field.
Those seeking sovereign capability would be better off aiming to be best at something, even something much narrower than an all round LLM. Or just fast following and making something that matches leading performance, which is close to what the Chinese labs do currently.
I can think of at least one other pretty good reason, which is in anticipation of regulatory capture. If "LLM used must be FOOBAR-certified" and coincidentally no Chinese models can get this certification, having such an alternative is a lot more valuable than just scoring highest in a set of benchmarks. Not to mention that these benchmarks aren't always accurate.
A vertically integrated AI stack won't fix the misaligned incentives of google execs.
AI is strangling their other major business and they don't like that. Unless Google sacrifices that branch of income, they won't put their full force behind AI.
I'm curious -- in your view, what exactly is it strangling that could not be addressed by replacing google.com with a ChatGPT-like interface while integrating other Google free-by-ads tools nicely? Or is your point they wouldn't do that due to existing "siloed incentives"?
The ads in google search are ~55% of their revenue and ~70% of their profit. Will the LLM drive as much traffic to the ads as the current google search? Will it feel as organic to the users as the current solution, or will LLM hawking a product seem forced by the users?
As long as AI needs a neocloud to do that, that won't happen. This can only happen when AI roughly as small and as widely runnable as a malicious exe attached to a mail.
Before we have Astra-grade, exe-sized AI's runnable on a grandma's laptop, we are safe.
I use chatgpt work's VM as a CI/CD runner, in addition to my primary one on hetzner. It's a beefy 20GB 9CPU machine, why waste all that precious RAM? :)
Some of these guys sound like they erase their fingerprints off the plates when they visit a restaurant, and ask people to forget about them when done talking.
Like it or not, as web gets more complex, it will recognize you more. If you don't want that, just don't use the web - perhaps buy a farm and life off-grid.
I just don't get what's the appeal to this endless damn cat and mouse game.
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