Foundation Models · Sun 8 Nov

Foundation models are general-purpose pretrained machine learning systems that serve as the underlying architecture for many downstream applications and tasks. Truncated covers their training techniques, capability improvements, hardware requirements, and regulatory developments.

Sunday 8 November

LG AI Research Opens Free API Access to Its K-EXAONE 2.5 Model

AI-generated summary LG AI Research announced free API access to K-EXAONE 2.5 on November 9, 2026, offering hosted use of the 750-billion-parameter model through the EXAONE API Platform. LG says developers, startups, companies and research institutions can obtain an API key to use the text-only model supporting Korean and English for service development and research.

The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts

AI-generated summary Turing Award winner Richard Sutton says raw compute alone is not enough for artificial intelligence and that artificial intelligence science needs clever new methods. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei disagree, stating that large language model scaling is far from exhausted and that the data favor further scaling.