Mark Sellman
Mark Sellman
@mpsellman.bsky.social
Technology Correspondent at The Times. Gooner who likes cycling. All views my own unless I’ve nicked them from someone else
We don't tend to talk about that that much, butt's not some new outlier they found, but it's, it's impressive."
February 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I think one of the things that people talk about is the efficiency of the model, but actually our models, our Gemini models, our latest versions, the flash versions, are more efficient for performance.
February 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"But it's exaggerated a little bit ... I think the hype that we've seen about it, but it nonetheless is a very good model, although it's not some new...
February 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"But it's very well implemented and it shows they can do extremely good engineering. And, you know, it's definitely an interesting thing that's arrived on the market. And it changes things, I think, on a geopolitical scale. So there's a lot of implications there.
February 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"But it's important to understand that despite the hype, there's no actual new scientific advance there. It's using known techniques, actually, many of the techniques we invented, things like AlphaZero and some of the reinforcement learning they use.
February 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM