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Microsoft reveals cutting-edge MAI-Base-2 model with 2T parameters

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Developers turn base models into LLMs by putting […] The post Microsoft reveals cutting-edge MAI-Base-2 model with 2T parameters appeared first on SiliconANGLE. has developed a new large language model (the kind of AI system trained on text to produce text) that it says is significantly more efficient than leading open-source alternatives.

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Political violence: How justifications influence voter approval

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A study by Ursula Daxecker, director at the Max Planck Institute for Politics and Social Science in Göttingen, and Neeraj Prasad of the University of Amsterdam, published in The Journal of Politics, finds that legitimizing violence can increase public approval of both violence and the parties involved in it. Among BJP supporters, the effect went even further: when violence was portrayed as justified, they were less approving of a peaceful response by their own party.

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