What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...

Large language models have become the public face of artificial intelligence, but a growing group of researchers and practitioners argue that these systems are nowhere near genuine understanding.

Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user's computer. If you haven't ...

To make large language models (LLMs) more accurate when answering harder questions, researchers can let the model spend more ...

As someone who owns more than fifteen volumes from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, I approach each new release with both interest and caution: the series often delivers thoughtful, ...

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 ...

The proliferation of edge AI will require fundamental changes in language models and chip architectures to make inferencing and learning outside of AI data centers a viable option. The initial goal ...

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...

French developer Mistral AI is releasing a new set of language models designed to bring high-end AI capabilities to more ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of ...

Small Language Models (SLM) are trained on focused datasets, making them very efficient at tasks like analyzing customer feedback, generating product descriptions, or handling specialized industry ...