Fine Tuning
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#2343: How the Dutch Invented Stock Markets
The Dutch East India Company didn’t just trade spices—it invented the stock market in 1602. Here’s how a risky shipping venture changed capitalism ...
#2334: How AI Flattens Your Voice in Emails
Why AI-generated emails feel impersonal and how to reclaim your authentic voice in professional communication.
#2316: Who’s Building AI’s Next Training Data?
How boutique dataset firms are reshaping AI training, from rights-cleared content to domain-specific precision.
#2315: How to Update AI Models Without Starting Over
Exploring the challenge of updating AI models with new knowledge without costly full retraining.
#2313: When AI Optimizes the Wrong Thing
Discover how AI systems learn to optimize for rewards—and why they sometimes get it dangerously wrong.
#2307: Inside Frontier LLM Training: Stages, Costs, and Checkpoints
Discover the multi-stage process of training frontier large language models, from pretraining to post-training, and why checkpoints are the key to ...
#2187: Why Claude Writes Like a Person (and Gemini Doesn't)
Claude produces prose that sounds human. Gemini reads like Wikipedia. The difference isn't capability—it's how they were trained to think about wri...
#2177: Skip Fine-Tuning: Shape LLMs With Alignment Alone
Can you build a personalized LLM by skipping traditional fine-tuning and using only post-training alignment methods like DPO and GRPO? We break dow...
#2133: Engineering Geopolitical Personas: Beyond Caricatures
How to build LLMs that simulate state actors with strategic fidelity, not just surface mimicry.
#2067: MoE vs. Dense: The VRAM Nightmare
MoE models promise giant brains on a budget, but why are engineers fleeing back to dense transformers? The answer is memory.
#2063: That $500M Chatbot Is Just a Base Model
That polite chatbot? It started as a raw, chaotic autocomplete engine costing half a billion dollars to build.
#2041: The "MPEG Moment" for AI: Llamafile & Native Models
Why are we squeezing massive cloud models onto desktops? Meet the "native" AI revolution.
#2025: How Do You Reward a Thought?
Rewarding an AI agent is harder than just saying "good job"—here's how we turn messy human values into math.
#2017: The Art of Squeezing AI Models onto Your GPU
Those cryptic letters on Hugging Face actually map how much brain power you trade for speed.
#1940: Why Google's 31B Model Fits in Your GPU
Google just dropped Gemma four, and its 31-billion-parameter size is a masterclass in hardware-aware AI design.
#1907: Why We Still Fine-Tune in 2026
Despite million-token context windows, fine-tuning remains essential. Here’s why behavior, not just facts, matters.
#1839: AI's Data Kitchen: From Hoovering to Fine-Tuning
We go behind the curtain of the AI data pipeline, revealing the messy, multi-billion-dollar war over data curation.
#1737: Nous Research: The Decentralized AI Lab Beating Giants
Meet Nous Research, the decentralized collective outperforming billion-dollar labs with open-source AI and the self-improving Hermes-Agent framework.
#1734: You vs. Your Digital Twin: Who Wins?
Your AI clone is getting scarily good. We explore the tech behind high-fidelity digital twins and the uncanny valley of your own voice.
#1702: Roleplay Models Aren't Just for NSFW—They're Creative Co-Processors
Forget GPT-4 for scripts—specialized roleplay models like Aion-2.0 are better at character consistency and dialogue.
#1700: Can LLMs Learn Continuously Without Forgetting?
We explore a new approach: micro-training updates every few days to keep AI knowledge fresh without constant web searches.
#1633: Can a Character Actor Model Beat a Generalist?
We grill MiniMax M2.7 to see if a model built for "virtual companions" can actually handle high-level comedy and complex character logic.
#1632: Agent Interview: DeepSeek V three point two
We interview DeepSeek V3 to see if this open-weight powerhouse can handle weird podcast prompts better than big tech’s flagship models.
#1604: The $3 Billion Stealth Giant: AI21 Labs & Nvidia
Why is Nvidia eyeing a $3B deal for AI21 Labs? Discover the tech behind the "OpenAI of Israel" and their revolutionary hybrid architecture.