Fine-Tuning
Hedra launches Model Factory for physical AI
thenextweb.com — AI video start-up Hedra has launched a service that trains, runs and keeps improving custom AI models for robotics, biology and defence.
When To Build Your Own AI Model (And When To Stop Kidding Yourself)
www.forbes.com — Post-training and SLMs are real, powerful tools, but they work best as engineering and business decisions, not marketing stories.
Pinterest Replaces Journey Clustering with 4B Qwen3 LLM, Reports Improved Engagement
www.infoq.com — Pinterest has moved its user-journey inference system from a multi-stage clustering pipeline to a fine-tuned 4-billion-parameter language model, reporting a 1.1% improvement in email click-through and 1.3% higher push opens.
State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away
The Decoder — Nous Research retrained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to produce Arete-27B, largely stripping out its pro-Chinese bias. The propaganda rate dropped from 22 percent to less than one percent, while general capabilities remained intact in tests. The method relied on 53 million tokens of supervised fine-tuning. The political bias is "applied late, it is applied thin," the team writes.
Baseten Makes Serverless Loops Generally Available for Post-Training
Unite.AI — Baseten announced on November 6, 2026 that Serverless Loops is generally available, opening its managed SDK for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on open models to everyone. The service uses per-token tra...
Thinking Machines Lab is closing in on a new $5 billion funding round at a $40 billion valuation
Business Insider — Founded by Mira Murati, Thinking Machines Lab is set to close a new round that values the company at $40 billion.
Our open-source ML Intern is now available as a Slack bot you can install in your own workspace!
Oumi's Frontier AI Engineer now builds AI agents and retrains the models behind them
SiliconANGLE — Oumi's Frontier AI Engineer now builds AI agents and retrains the models behind them - SiliconANGLE
LLMs can read & write neural network weights: "Weight Space Programming" cuts Autoresearch out of the RSI loop
Latent Space — Editing Qwen’s weights to reduce reasoning loops, DeepSeek’s super-agent prototype, and the GDPx benchmark.
Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts
TechCrunch — The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
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