Google Willow Sets New Quantum Supremacy Milestone
Google has announced its new 105-qubit superconducting chip, code-named Willow, which solved a quantum supremacy experiment that would take at least 300 million years to simulate on a classical computer. More importantly, the chip shows how quantum hardware may achieve fault tolerance in such a way to seemingly unleash its scalability.
EuroLLM-9B Aims to Improve State of the Art LLM Support for European Languages
EuroLLM-9B is an open-source large language model built in Europe and tailored to European languages, including all the official EU languages as well as 11 other non-official albeit commercially important languages. According to the team behind it, its performance makes it one of the best European-made LLM of this size.
DeepThought-8B Leverages LLaMA-3.1 8B to Create a Compact Reasoning Model
DeepThought-8B is a small “reasoning” model built on LLaMA-3.1 8B that can carry through decision-making processes step by step, similarly to how OpenAI o1 does but in a much smaller package.
Hugging Face Smolagents is a Simple Library to Build LLM-Powered Agents
Smolagents is a library created at Hugging Face to build agents based on large language models (LLMs). Hugging Faces says its new library aims to be simple and LLM-agnostic. It supports secure “agents that write their actions in code” and is integrated with Hugging Face Hub.
Nvidia Nemotron Models Aim to Accelerate AI Agent Development
Nvidia has launched Llama Nemotron large language models (LLMs) and Cosmos Nemotron vision language models (VLMs) with a special emphasis on workflows powered by AI agents such as customer support, fraud detection, product supply chain optimization, and more. Models in the Nemotron family come in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes to better fit the requirements of diverse systems.