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used elephant-1 to classify hacker news comments
> 1500 comments
> bucketed into sentiment around AI from enthusiast to doomer
spot-checked a bunch.
some learnings.
> picking the categories and defining the criteria for each category is at least half the work when using a decision model
> need to look at the distribution of the spread between the first- and second-ranked categories to make sure the model is truly confident
> classic hn sarcasm makes this extra hard but also more fun
Today we’re releasing two decision models, elephant-1 (9B) and mammoth-1 (27B), trained by the @baselabs team, available for free for one week on our Model APIs.
mammoth-1 is #1 on the Jev Decision Index and elephant-1 is tied for #1 on the Artificial Analysis Decision Index.
It’s a new model, but more importantly, this is an open-source model you can access, deploy, and post-train on Baseten (or wherever you do your best work).
The free week ends 10/27/26 at 11:59 PM PT. Try it and let us know what you think.
Try mammoth-1 here: baseten.co/library/mammoth-1…
Try elephant-1 here:
baseten.co/library/elephant-…
rooting for mistral solely on the basis of this video.
(also open model choice = good)
Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
thought about this more overnight. the implications for this are more massive than i originally thought.
feels like a whole new set of capabilities are unlocked for large eng orgs. seems so early for agentic coding still.
a multi-model world means being able to pick the right model for the task at hand.
a big leap forward for the enterprise to be able to access both best-in-class closed and open models.
Welcome to Baseten, it’s been waiting for you
We're officially in our Sheila era. Excited to welcome our new CMO to Baseten!
baseten.co/blog/sheila-vashe…
as frustrated as I am about being stuck at EWR all day and astonished at how fragile our infrastructure is, I’m equally amazed that it only took 12 hours to get back up and running and that safety truly was prioritized over capitalism. Glad to be wheels up <24 hours later.
UPDATE: An Amtrak construction crew accidentally cut into a fiber line in New Jersey which caused a telecom outage and forced FAA to pause flights in the Northeast.
Right now:
- Flights are resuming at LGA and PHL
- Flights into EWR, JFK, and Teterboro Airport are paused
This incident underscores the need for additional funding to modernize aging infrastructure and prevent disruptions like this in the future.
Follow @FAANews for updates.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Amtrak stated the cut was by a New Jersey Transit contractor on NJ Transit property, not an Amtrak crew. businessinsider.com/faa-outage-new… nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/new…
Verizon said contractors cut its cable running adjacent to an Amtrak rail line. reuters.com/world/us/faa-h…
Massive businesses throughout history have been built around “xyz for normies”
let me get this straight:
Muse ripped Openclaw
Instinct is a simple file based memory system (s/o @DhravyaShah)
Amazon just banned Muse
Instinct is entirely dependent on Apple ToS
The consumer winners of the next few years will be the ones poised to best distribute through platforms.
Travel, retail, etc could all see new winners emerge.
We saw this with gaming in the early 2010s with the Facebook platform and the rise of Zynga
Opening access for developers to build Muse connectors. You bring the API -- Muse brings the agent, the browser, and the context of what the person actually wants. People reach your service just by asking for it, and their agent takes it from there.
New connectors are live today. Come build with us. muse.ai/platform
Heading to Portugal tonight for 60 hours. Will put Instinct and Muse head to head. What should I test?
M walked so that Muse could RUN. Meta AI officially back in the running.
been the missing app in my day to day life since M was shut down all those years ago.
- spot on travel recs
- wardrobe recs
- recouped $2k for me
- made me a custom podcast episode for my trip??
open-source = more transparency = more safety
We believe openness to be an advantage for AI safety. Openness provides more visibility into the behavior of models and, most importantly, greater means of turning safety research into actionable and transparent controls than closed-source.
This is why Baseten and Base Labs are building a stronger safety and security standard for open models, with the launch of our safety infrastructure. Base Labs will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models, and Baseten will integrate that work into its deployment infrastructure, live at runtime, and offer this work as a managed service. This will be a standard that is transparent and built into how our models are trained and deployed.
We invite the open-source community to contribute, and are proud to partner with @huggingface and @GoodfireAI to bring this vision to fruition.
Together, we are building an ecosystem of open models that are safe and accessible to all.
