9 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

What is fine-tuning?

Hugging Face's PEFT library has 21.6k GitHub stars because LoRA cuts fine-tuning's trainable parameters by 10,000x against training all of GPT-3's 175B weights.

Nvidia AVO harness lifts Claude Opus 5 to 100% on ARC-AGI-3

Nvidia's AVO harness took the same Claude Opus 5 model from a 30% baseline to a perfect 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 reasoning benchmark, using fewer actions than rival agent wrapper VISTA.

Nevada clears Tesla for 5,000 robotaxis in Las Vegas

Nevada regulators unanimously approved Tesla, Waymo and Uber to run up to 8,000 combined robotaxis around Las Vegas, but Tesla's own engineer says the real number will land closer to 2,500.

Apple cuts 200 jobs, rebuilds Siri's AI architecture

Apple laid off 200+ staff across Vision Pro and Siri on August 21, reallocating engineers toward a Gemini-powered assistant rebuild that's already years late.

Nvidia pays Poolside $6B for its model-building tech

Nvidia is paying AI startup Poolside $6B to license its model-building software and investing $1B more, the third deal in a year built on the same license-plus-hire template.

Nvidia and Korea's Rebellions weigh a chip deal

Jensen Huang met Rebellions' CEO in person to discuss a possible investment, partnership or acquisition of the Korean AI inference-chip startup.

Starcloud raises $250M, Nvidia among backers, at $2.3B

Orbital data center startup Starcloud closed a $250M extension at a $2.3B valuation, with Nvidia putting in $25M, as launch capacity for satellites tightens.

Signals: OpenAI narrows Anthropic's lead, data boom

Ramp's spend data shows Anthropic barely ahead of OpenAI in enterprise share, Micro1's data-labeling run rate hit $500M in eight months, and ChatGPT now drafts and sends your Apple Messages texts.

Stealth model Ox Alpha goes free on OpenRouter and OpenCode

An anonymous reasoning model with a 1M-token context went free on OpenRouter and OpenCode today, and tokenizer fingerprinting points to a Chinese lab test-driving it before naming it.

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