Salman Naqvi

Hello! I'm Salman, an undergrad studying AI&EdTech at EdUHK. Currently part-time at the Multimodal Intelligence Lab@EdUHK, a fastai student, 会说一点儿普通话, loves learning, a scitech geek and space nerd, and have been to 15 countries. Here, I'll share what I'm learning in AI, robotics and other stuff.

I need a whole remake of the backend of my blog; maintenance is important! 🥵😵‍💫

Turns out we weren't done for major LLM releases in 2024 after all... Alibaba's Qwen just released QvQ, a "visual reasoning model" - the same chain-of-thought trick as OpenAI's o1 applied to running a prompt against an image Trying it out is a lot of fun: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/...

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

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大家好！👋👋

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