A $500 RL Fine-Tune Beat the Frontier. Sort Of.
Fermisense, a consultancy, spent roughly $500 of GPU time fine-tuning a Qwen3.5-9B open model with reinforcement learning and claims it beat GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Fable …
Fermisense, a consultancy, spent roughly $500 of GPU time fine-tuning a Qwen3.5-9B open model with reinforcement learning and claims it beat GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Fable …
Thinking Machines, led by Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975B open-weights model that companies can fine-tune via its Tinker platform without building GPU infrastructure, enabling startups to own sp…
No independent measurement exists to verify whether enterprise AI investments pay off, because every headline ROI figure in the debate was produced by a party with a financial stake in the answer, a c…
A wave of AI startups founded by former hedge funders from firms like Bridgewater, Schonfeld, and Jain Global aims to automate investment research and analysis, potentially replacing human talent. The…
A proprietary model trained on high-quality human annotations outperforms all frontier models on financial information filtering tasks, achieving over 80% accuracy at a fraction of the cost, while Gem…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, the latest version of its flagship AI model, at the same price as its predecessor. The company emphasized the model's improved "honesty" and reliability…
Ted Yang, a former leader at Bridgewater and Citadel, has released a new book titled 'Ageless Peak Performance: The Playbook for AI-Powered Excellence,' which argues that generative AI can extend peak…