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Alibaba's large language model is ranked as top open-source model, the Supreme Court overturns Chevron doctrine, and China releases video of robot dog armed with assault rifle

Watch All-In E185 Read our Creator Economy Deep Dive Caught My Eye… Alibaba's large language model, Qwen, is currently ranked as the number one open-source model on Hugging Face's LLM Leaderboard, outperforming competitors such as Meta's Llama 3 70B and Mistral AI's Mixtral 8x22B. What is driving Qwen’s performance? Alibaba's Qwen-2-72B-Instruct model demonstrated remarkable proficiency across a diverse set of tasks, including knowledge assessment, comprehension of lengthy and complex inputs, and advanced mathematics. The model achieved an impressive average score of 43.02, surpassing its…

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