Matthias Bastian

Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.

Matthias Bastian

Jul 23, 2024

Meta takes on OpenAI's GPT-4o with Llama 3 405B, its largest open-source LLM to date

Meta's open source model Llama 3 405B outperforms GPT-4o in many benchmarks

Matthias Bastian

Jul 23, 2024

Update

Cohere raises $500 million at a $5.5 billion valuation

Matthias Bastian

Jul 22, 2024

Update

Elon Musk promises "world's most powerful AI by every metric by December"

Matthias Bastian

Jul 22, 2024

AI models struggle with "lost in the middle" issue when processing large image sets

"Lost in the middle" phenomenon: AI also ignores content in the middle of images

Matthias Bastian

Jul 22, 2024

Study reveals rapid increase in web domains blocking AI models from training data

A study shows that AI models are increasingly being cut off from their training data on the web. The rapidly growing number of restrictions could mean that models will have to learn from less, more biased and outdated information in the future.

Matthias Bastian

Jul 21, 2024

Japanese media warn AI search engines may irreversibly damage democracy and culture

Japan's military relies on AI to combat personnel shortages and make faster decisions

Matthias Bastian

Jul 21, 2024

AI research

Researchers uncover an all-too-easy trick to bypass LLM safeguards

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Matthias Bastian

Jul 20, 2024

AI research

AI models could surpass human skills by using weaker models for guidance

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Matthias Bastian

Jul 20, 2024

Update

OpenAI's GPT-4o mini is built from the ground up to resist the most common LLM attack

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Matthias Bastian

Jul 19, 2024

AI research

AI models might need to scale down to scale up again

Ex-OpenAI researcher explains the backwards race in AI models