Blog.

Thoughts from the Barnacle mind.

Duncan Anderson·Feb 5, 2025

Google Gemini 2.0 brings with it lower costs

Google's Gemini 2.0 model launches bring better models at lower costs - what's not to like?

Duncan Anderson·Jan 28, 2025

DeepSeek = DeepDisruption?

DeekSeek R1 is an open source model from China that was trained with a small fraction of the compute used to train OpenAI's o1, and yet has comparable performance.

#AI-Models

Duncan Anderson·Jan 20, 2025

Me and an AI: Building a New Website Together

Our new website was built by Claude and o1. A human (me) oversaw its construction, but AI wrote every line of code.

#AI-development

Duncan Anderson·Jan 15, 2025

Solving tricky problems...

GenAI success reaquires expertise + space + creativity + trust

#Philosophy

Duncan Anderson·Jan 14, 2025

AI-Parky

Are podcasts hosted by AI reincarnations of dead people interesting, creepy or dangerous?

#Voice

Will AI Replace Human Engineers in 2025?

Mark Zuckerberg seems to thinks so... but what's the truth?

#Societal-Impact#AI-powered-Engineering

Duncan Anderson·Jan 11, 2025

AI Aides Scientific Discovery

AI tool GNoME finds 2.2 million new crystals, including 380,000 stable materials that could power future technologies

#AI-Use-Cases#Science

Duncan Anderson·Jan 8, 2025

A home supercomputer

Nvidia's Digits can run 200B parameter LLMs at home.

#AI-Infrastructure

Duncan Anderson·Jan 7, 2025

Nvidia's Jensen Huang & AI Agents

Nvidia's CES keynote included some fascinating discussions about AI Agents - are they really ready to be deployed like an HR department deploys people?

#AI-Agents

Duncan Anderson·Jan 3, 2025

Phi4 is out!

Microsoft Phi4 LLM is out on Ollama! This is a small open source model that gets really good benchmark scores - on the MMLU benchmark phi4 scores 84.8, nipping at the heals of GPT-4o's 88.1.

#LLMs#Models

The wall that wasn’t

Benchmark results for the latest AI models suggest that any “scaling wall” has already been breached and we’re on the path to AGI.

#AGI

Duncan Anderson·Feb 3, 2024

Explainable AI

On Reasoning, Explainability and LLMs.

#Explainable-AI

Duncan Anderson·Feb 3, 2024

Beyond Data Hoovering: The Nuanced Reality of Training Large Language Models (LLMs)

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is an evolving science — or, perhaps, an art form. In this post I set out to shed some light on exactly what is meant by training a model.

#AI-Training

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