Stephen Downes

George Siemens links to a couple new language models from China in his latest newsletter. First is Manus, "a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions" by deploying AI agents to do tasks for you. "Here's an example of a 'big tech stock performance' I requested," writes Siemens (noting it's hard to track how accurate the output is). Alsoi from China, Baidu launched its own "4.5-worthy LLM", Ernie. "Biggest difference between Ernie 4.5 and GPT-4.5? Ernie is 1% of the cost."