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Comment #49204544
Just a word of advice, it could go a long way to have a human write the README rather than an LLM. Right now, it’s a little hard to follow what the actual findings are, why they ar…
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Comment #48799147
> The six solid objects discovered on Forrest Beach, to the north of Townsville, are thought to be space debris, and the Australian Space Agency (ASA) is now trying to determine wh…
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Comment #48513879
> Sounds nice except that these are 1 very small scale model, 1 reranker, and 1 embedding model that are far from frontier LLM level. We've tried to take a first-principles approac…
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Comment #48513784
Our models can be deployed on premises as well, though that is more of a bespoke offering at the moment. We've also been fortunate enough to have trained most of our models on our …
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Ask HN: What are Stainless users doing now that Anthropic has killed it?
Hey HN, Two days ago, Anthropic bought Stainless and then immediately killed it. Stainless offered the ability to take an OpenAPI spec and automatically turn it into SDKs in almost…
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Comment #47626626
ChatGPT already does this, albeit in limited circumstances, through the use of its sandbox environment. Asking GPT in thinking mode to, for example, count the number of “l”s in a l…
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Show HN: Isaacus – the legal AI research company
Hey HN, This is Isaacus, a legal AI research company that my brother, Abdur-Rahman Butler, and I, Umar Butler, founded last year and have been working full time on ever since. We m…
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Comment #47270189
This is called a lexical innovation ;). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_innovation . We'd argue it makes a lot of sense to appropriate 'graphitization' as a term for a model …
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Comment #47270150
> Also, you really want to tell people how to access it and what it costs. Or put up a "call for quote" if your market is large Enterprise budgets. Our pricing page can be found in…
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Comment #47270138
FWIW we're planning on releasing a self-hostable version on AWS Marketplace quite soon followed by one on the Azure Marketplace. In both cases, deployments live entirely in your te…
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Show HN: Kanon 2 Enricher – the first hierarchical graphitization model
Hey HN, This is Kanon 2 Enricher, the first hierarchical graphitization model. It represents an entirely new class of AI models designed to transform document corpora into rich, hi…
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Comment #46241483
> Weirdly, the blog announcement completely omits the actual new context window size which is 400,000: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-5.2 As @lopuhin points out, they …
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Comment #46086511
Here's a copy of the only known recording of a prank call to the Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YFFhc3XZDw
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Comment #46077184
After having read the article in its entirety, I’m still not sure what Cybersyn is…
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Show HN: The Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB)
Hey HN, I'm excited to share the Massive Legal Embedding Benchmark (MLEB) — the first comprehensive benchmark for legal embedding models. Unlike previous legal retrieval datasets, …
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