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THE AMERICAN DEEPSEEK PROJECT

Meta's recent AI shortcomings have created a vacuum in the open-source AI ecosystem that has largely been filled by Chinese models. If current dynamics continue, the AI world will be split between powerful but expensive, closed-source American models and low-cost, ubiquitous but potentially compromised Chinese models. The US likely has a very small window, roughly the next two years, to counter this trend by investing $100-500 million into an open-source model that is as good as the best closed-source model.

SAKANA AI'S TREEQUEST: DEPLOY MULTI-MODEL TEAMS THAT OUTPERFORM INDIVIDUAL LLMS BY 30%

Sakana AI's TreeQuest uses Multi-LLM AB-MCTS to combine multiple LLMs. Achieving a 30% performance boost over individual models, this technique leverages the unique strengths of different models through Adaptive Branching Monte Carlo Tree Search, dynamically assigning the optimal model for each task. Available as an open-source tool, TreeQuest allows businesses to apply this approach to complex problems, enhancing AI capabilities and reducing hallucination risks.

WHY I DON'T THINK AGI IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER

It's hard to get normal humanlike labor out of LLMs because they lack some fundamental capabilities. They don't get better over time, and this lack of continual learning is a huge problem. There's no way to give models human-level feedback, so users are stuck with the abilities they have out of the box. Messing around with system prompts doesn't produce anything close to the kind of learning and improvement that human employees experience. Humans are able to build up context, interrogate their own failures, and pick up small improvements and efficiencies as they practice a task.

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