Nvidia unceremoniously launched a new artificial intelligence model on Oct 15 that’s purported to outperform state-of-the-art AI systems including GPT-4o and Claude-3.  According to a post on the X.com social media platform from the Nvidia AI Developer account, the new model, dubbed Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, “is a leading model” on lmarena.AI’s Chatbot Arena.  Nemotron Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct is, essentially, a modified version of Meta’s open-source Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct. The “Nemotron” portion of the model’s name encapsulates Nvidia’s contribution to the end result.  The Llama “herd” of AI models, as Meta refers to them, are meant to be used as open-source foundations for developers to build on. In the case of Nemotron, Nvidia took up the challenge and developed a system designed to be more “helpful” than popular models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude-3.  Nvidia used specially curated datasets, advanced fine-tuning methods, and its own state-of-the-art AI hardware to turn Meta’s vanilla model into what might be the most “helpful” AI model on the planet.  “I asked it a few coding questions I usually ask to compare LLMs and got some of the best answers from this one. lol, holy shit.” Benchmarking When it comes to determining which AI model is “the best,” there’s no clear-cut methodology. Unlike, for […]