Why “models” is being discussed
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Continuously updating weights will never be viable for a company like anthropic that's providing cloud inference. So if you're hoping for that you should probably just look at t…
by ffsm8 · Nov 7, 2026
They are in context, but models are probabilistic. Sometimes they bias to the tools they were trained with, or sometimes they're just wrong. More references in the context windo…
by ford · Nov 7, 2026
I've found models to be terrible at creating useful memories, or doing anything incremental over time. I am interested in if it's a fundamental limitation, ie models that have g…
by ford · Nov 7, 2026
How do people afford such costs though? At that rate, you're not running flagship models due to cost and limits.. right..?
by swat535 · Nov 7, 2026
Memdoor author here which is a coding agent that run Jev inside. I believe this is becoming mainstream in any coding agent for routing calls and reduce input sizes. First candid…
by guregodevo · Nov 7, 2026
I agree with you that if the trends of 2025-2026 continue into 2027-2028 for open weight models and local inference, 120b param open models will be more than good enough for 80%…
by hermitShell · Nov 7, 2026
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A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin modulus, 'a measure'. Read more on Wikipedia