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Somalia also raised the issue at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday, warning that Israel’s recognition could pose serious regional security risks.

Israel’s representative rejected the criticism, calling it a double standard and pointing to the recognition of Palestine by other states. The United States said its position on Somalia remains unchanged.

same old sabre rattling or is this something else?

cool video goes over ai vs thinking

Ripped from the other site for posterity

It’s supposed to work like this: There’s 5 rounds of debate. First round they are supposed to give a hot take. Rounds 2 and 3 they’re supposed to react to each other (shared chat history). Rounds 4 and 5 they’re supposed to vote.

This was meant to be a demo of the parallel models capability, but people seem interested in the debate idea itself… I think the actual debate performance could be improved significantly!

Source code is in this PR here if anyone wants to hack on it: https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/pull/648

https://www.reddit.com/user/jfowers_amd/

Today, we announce Mistral 3, the next generation of Mistral models. Mistral 3 includes three state-of-the-art small, dense models (14B, 8B, and 3B) and Mistral Large 3 – our most capable model to date – a sparse mixture-of-experts trained with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All models are released under the Apache 2.0 license. Open-sourcing our models in a variety of compressed formats empowers the developer community and puts AI in people’s hands through distributed intelligence.

The Ministral models represent the best performance-to-cost ratio in their category. At the same time, Mistral Large 3 joins the ranks of frontier instruction-fine-tuned open-source models.

wow if true

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/29757 https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/42498

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/technology/p/1229433/apertus-switzerland-government-release-a-fully-open-transparent-multilingual-language-l

"Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 2 September, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.

Researchers from EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS have developed the large language model Apertus – it is one of the largest open LLMs and a basic technology on which others can build.

In brief Researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS have developed Apertus, a fully open Large Language Model (LLM) – one of the largest of its kind. As a foundational technology, Apertus enables innovation and strengthens AI expertise across research, society and industry by allowing others to build upon it. Apertus is currently available through strategic partner Swisscom, the AI platform Hugging Face, and the Public AI network. ...

The model is named Apertus – Latin for “open” – highlighting its distinctive feature: the entire development process, including its architecture, model weights, and training data and recipes, is openly accessible and fully documented.

AI researchers, professionals, and experienced enthusiasts can either access the model through the strategic partner Swisscom or download it from Hugging Face – a platform for AI models and applications – and deploy it for their own projects. Apertus is freely available in two sizes – featuring 8 billion and 70 billion parameters, the smaller model being more appropriate for individual usage. Both models are released under a permissive open-source license, allowing use in education and research as well as broad societal and commercial applications. ...

Trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages – 40% of the data is non-English – Apertus includes many languages that have so far been underrepresented in LLMs, such as Swiss German, Romansh, and many others. ...

Furthermore, for people outside of Switzerland, the external pagePublic AI Inference Utility will make Apertus accessible as part of a global movement for public AI. "Currently, Apertus is the leading public AI model: a model built by public institutions, for the public interest. It is our best proof yet that AI can be a form of public infrastructure like highways, water, or electricity," says Joshua Tan, Lead Maintainer of the Public AI Inference Utility."