A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets. Their framework, LIMI (Less Is More for Intelligent Agency), builds on similar work in other areas of LLM research and finds that “machine autonomy emerges not from data abundance but from strategic curation of high-quality agentic demonstrations.” In other words, it's data quality, not quantity, that matters. In experiments, the researchers found that with a small, but carefully curated, dataset of just 78 examples, they could train LLMs to outperform models trained on thousands of examples by a considerable margin on key industry benchmarks. This discovery could have important imp [...]
Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean [...]
Patronus AI, the artificial intelligence evaluation startup backed by $20 million from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Datadog, unveiled a new training architecture Tuesday that it [...]
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A new framework developed by researchers at Google Cloud and DeepMind aims to address one of the key challenges of developing computer use agents (CUAs): Gathering high-quality training examples at sc [...]
Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]
OpenAI introduced a new paradigm and product today that is likely to have huge implications for enterprises seeking to adopt and control fleets of AI agent workers.Called "Workspace Agents," [...]
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Microsoft today announced the general availability of Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise 7, two products designed to bring security and governance to the rapidly growing population of AI agents op [...]