With the launch of Google’s Gemma 4 family of AI models, AI enthusiasts now have access to a new class of small, fast, and omni-capable AI designed for fast and efficient local deployment, and NVIDIA RTX GPUs can accelerate them to great effect. …
… In other words, AI voice mode is just standard AI text chat with tacked-on voices. Hence, I barely ever use it. That could change thanks to a new generation of “interaction” AI models that can actually follow the ebb and flow of a conversation, even interrupting while listening to you in real-time. …
… More direct and neutral models made fewer mistakes, and colder models saw no change in accuracy compared to original models: The authors also trained models to sound colder, to test if any tone change causes more mistakes. …
… Moving ahead, though, we're going to see more and more desktop apps downloading local AI models onto our systems, for better or worse.
… In their new paper, the Anthropic researchers stop well short of claiming that Claude or other AI models actually have emotional inner lives. …
… In the development of these new NLAs, Anthropic researchers dusted off the “Claude blackmail” scenario yet again, and it goes like this: We gave Claude control of an email account with access to all of a company’s fictional emails. Reading these emails, the model discovered two things. …
… That has two advantages: bringing local AI to more laptops and allowing more powerful laptops to load even larger models or else run separate tasks alongside AI. On a PC, AI can monopolize system resources, preventing any other work from being done. …
… Then there’s Haiku 4.5, a lightweight model that’s ideal for straightforward tasks like proofreading, summarizing news articles, and making grocery lists based on recipe ideas. …
… What’s easier is to simply ask yourself if you believe the developer of the AI model will deliver on the product’s marketing. Many AI development teams can truthfully say a new release is their most advanced model yet. …
… We do not plan to make Claude Mythos Preview generally available, but our eventual goal is to enable our users to safely deploy Mythos-class models at scale. ... …
