alt Hacker NewsThe company sounds like a bunch of hot air to me. From their about page:
> At the heart of Multiverse's platform is CompactifAI, a compression technology that applies tensor networks, a mathematical framework from quantum physics, to the problem of AI model compression. This application was pioneered by co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Román Orús and reduces the size of large language models by up to 80-95% with immaterial accuracy loss.
Ironic, considering they are releasing a 438B model that loses to a 27B one. From another part:
> Singularity Machine Learning is a cloud service that uses quantum machine learning for solving supervised learning problems.
I wouldn't be surprised if these guys just finetuned an open Chinese model and called it a day.
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> I wouldn't be surprised if these guys just finetuned an open Chinese model and called it a day.
Easy enough to find out, ask it a whole bunch of questions about politically sensitive things that would be impossible to publish on CCTV, the Peoples Daily, CGTN, etc. If they didn't train the model and just fine tuned it, a lot of "don't talk about Tibet or the Dalai Lama or what happened in 1989" will be perma baked into it.
They had other models a while ago, named 'Pulsar', and they were finetunes of Nemotron in collaboration with NVIDIA. I think this will be something similar.
Not understanding that "up to" is not a range sends me spiralling.
That made me laugh out loud
Just because you haven’t heard of them and they’re not American doesn’t mean they’re hot air.
I got the privilege to meet their CEO in Paris as they were announcing their partnership with Axelera and we exchanged some stories. They are full of very smart people, and they got accepted in the EIC Accelerator which, while you may not have heard of it, is one of the most rigorous and difficult programs to get into as a startup (far more difficult than YC which nowadays accepts any vague AI trash and always shoots wide).
looks like someone is looking for EU funding :D
> The company sounds like a bunch of hot air to me.
When they make being from Europe their whole personality, that shows how little value there is to the actual value proposition.