New Chinese AI models and Liquid Foundation Models push LLM efficiency and reasoning forward
By
Dr. Christian Winkler
Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
The article discusses recent developments in language models, highlighting new Chinese models from StepFun and MiniMax that offer affordable reasoning capabilities optimized for agentic workflows. It also covers Liquid Foundation Models, which use a special architecture to remain compact yet powerful. The piece notes the trend toward multimodal LLMs with improved performance and leaner sizes.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledNew Chinese models from StepFun and MiniMax promise affordable reasoning and are optimized for agentic workflows.
The Liquid Foundation Models are very compact due to their special architecture, yet still powerful.
With LLMs increasingly working multimodally, there are exciting developments for more performance and leaner sizes.
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