Morning Overview on MSN

LLMs have tons of parameters, but what is a parameter?

Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters ...
Quanta Magazine

To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language

Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...
eWeek

Large Language Model: A Guide To The Question ‘What Is An LLM”

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI’s new tool attempts to explain language models’ behaviors

It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. Even for data scientists, it’s difficult to know why, ...
VentureBeat

Nvidia's Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a small language model that punches above its weight

As tech companies race to deliver on-device AI, we are seeing a growing body of research and techniques for creating small language models (SLMs) that can run on resource-constrained devices. The ...
Security Boulevard

Securing the Knowledge Layer: Enterprise Security Architecture Frameworks for Proprietary Data Integration With Large Language Models

A practical overview of security architectures, threat models, and controls for protecting proprietary enterprise data in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.