InfoWorld

First look: Run LLMs locally with LM Studio

This desktop app for hosting and running LLMs locally is rough in a few spots, but still useful right out of the box.
python-hub

Day 7: Database Decisions & Running LLMs Locally

Today was all about making pragmatic technical decisions and getting my hands dirty with local LLMs. Two major milestones: finalizing my database choice and successfully running a local model for data ...
MIT Technology Review

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do? MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of ...
Computerworld

After LLMs and agents, the next AI frontier: video language models

The next step in the evolution of generative AI technology will rely on ‘world models’ to improve physical outcomes in the real world. Tesla’s viral videos show its Optimus humanoid robot serving ...
TechCrunch

AWS doubles down on custom LLMs with features meant to simplify model creation

Right on the heels of announcing Nova Forge, a service to train custom Nova AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced more tools for enterprise customers to create their own frontier models. AWS ...
Harvard Business Review

Research: LLMs Respond Differently in English and Chinese

Generative AI has become deeply integrated into daily life. People increasingly rely on it to think, create, and make decisions. Yet, as organizations scale their use of generative AI tools, a quiet ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious LLMs empower inexperienced hackers with advanced tools

Unrestricted large language models (LLMs) like WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT are improving their capabilities to generate malicious code, delivering functional scripts for ransomware encryptors and lateral ...
TechCrunch

AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams

The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published the results of a new AI experiment. This time they ...
Computerworld

Microsoft launches its own LLMs — here’s what that really means

With the arrival of MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, Microsoft might be looking to put some distance between itself and OpenAI. Microsoft recently released its own large language models — the technology ...
Ars Technica

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the ...
marktechpost

JSON Prompting for LLMs: A Practical Guide with Python Coding Examples

JSON Prompting is a technique for structuring instructions to AI models using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format, making prompts clear, explicit, and machine-readable. Unlike traditional ...