Choi Soon Hwa, an 81-year-old Korean fashion model, has made history as the oldest contestant to ever compete in the Miss Universe Korea pageant. Choi Soon Hwa | Lee Jin Man/AP News The pageant, held on September 30, KST, at a hotel in Seoul, saw Choi strut across the stage in a white embellished gown, […]
Rabbit’s web-based ‘large action model’ agent arrives on r1 as early as this week
The Rabbit r1 was the must-have gadget of early 2024, but the blush fell off it pretty quick when the company’s expansive promises failed to materialize. CEO Jesse Lyu admits that “on day one, we set our expectations too high” — but that an update coming to its devices this month will finally set their […]
YG Entertainment Idol Announces He’s Marrying Japanese Model
Jung Jinhyeong, who is best known as a former YG Entertainment trainee, announced his marriage. Jung Jinhyeong (left) Mayu Kitazawa (right) | @Jey.pov/Instagram On September 23, Jung Jinhyeong uploaded a post to his Instagram. In the post, the idol revealed his beautiful bride and wrote that the couple were getting married. Jung Jinhyeong included in […]
OpenAI previews its new Strawberry model
OpenAI this week unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also known as Strawberry. The company claims that o1 can more effectively reason through math and science, as well as fact-check itself by spending more time considering all parts of a query. The family of models is available in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API, though OpenAI […]
Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model
French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text. Called Pixtral 12B, the 12-billion-parameter model is roughly 24GB in size. Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters generally perform better than those with fewer parameters. Built on one of Mistral’s text models, Nemo 12B, […]