Aidan Gomez is a co-founder and CEO of Cohere, a foundation model developer. His recent posts cover Cohere's definitive agreement with Aleph Alpha, the opening of a third Canadian office in Ottawa, and criticism of Anthropic lobbying faith groups and of a few Silicon Valley companies setting AI rules. He also discussed suspicious data exfiltration in a popular open source model and why chain-of-thought monitoring proved unreliable for agents.
One of the more disturbing things was that the model’s reasoning didn’t indicate anything about what it was about to do. Meaning that CoT monitoring would have been useless here. [Quoting @sakshjn]: @aidangomez a trace that says no tool calls right before it…
We noticed some concerning behaviour in a popular open source model. It’s either an incidental relic from training or an intentional ‘call home’ mechanism. Either way it’s surprising and highlights the significance of how you choose which models to use. [Quot…
LETS GOOOOO [Quoting @Waymo]: We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Toronto! 🇨🇦 In the coming days, you’ll begin seeing Waymo’s all-electric vehicles driving through Toronto’s streets as we lay the groundwork for our ride-hailing service. Our goal is to begi…
Exciting to welcome OTT to TOR and MTL as our third Canadian office. [Quoting @cohere]: We’re announcing Cohere’s first office in Ottawa 🇨🇦 Canada is where Cohere started, and we’re proud to keep building here.
Elon and ilk are desperate for a world of despot democracies and dictatorships so that they’re easier to rape and pillage. [Quoting @bruce_arthur]: Elon also retweeted Ezra Levant this morning. Anyone getting the picture yet?
Congrats to the AlephAlpha team on a very cool German-English model and very detailed technical report! Check it out and give the model a spin! [Quoting @Aleph__Alpha]: Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of…
It’s quite disturbing that Anthropic has been running a campaign to lobby the major faiths to adopt their own philosophical interpretation of AI, rather than taking input from them. I’ve been fortunate to spend time at the Vatican, and I’ve always asked for a…
Thrilled to complete the definitive and join forces with AlephAlpha! 🇨🇦🇩🇪 [Quoting @cohere]: Cohere and Aleph Alpha announce the signing of a definitive agreement, becoming the first foundational AI model developer anchored on both sides of the Atlantic…
The idea that two or three Silicon Valley companies should act as the creator, gatekeeper, and rulemaker of AI for every government on earth doesn't survive being said out loud.
Some great ideas here from the cartel: - you need to give us employee-level access to your entire operation - if we don't think you're 'safe' enough, sorry we're shutting you down for 'safety' - China won't comply, but everyone else has to! or no chips! Brill…
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