Communications of the ACM

Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?

Large language models can write essays, solve math problems, and generate computer code, but it’s not fully understood how ...

How the 'creeping normality' of large language models is quietly reshaping the life sciences

Large language models (LLMs) are gradually transforming research in the life sciences in ways that extend far beyond ...
Ars Technica

How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion

In April 2023, a few weeks after the launch of GPT-4, the Internet went wild for two new software projects with the audacious names BabyAGI and AutoGPT. “Over the past week, developers around the ...
The Conversation

Large language models: how the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works

The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on ...
The Economist

Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

Once, the world’s richest men competed over yachts, jets and private islands. Now, the size-measuring contest of choice is clusters. Just 18 months ago, OpenAI trained GPT-4, its then state-of-the-art ...
The Economist

Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still

As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI) engineering. Three years on, experts are harder to impress. To really ...
CNBC

As generative AI bubble fears grow, the ultra low-cost large language model breakthroughs are booming

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec OpenAI is reportedly raising more money at an even higher valuation of $300 billion, but ...