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UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed.

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EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the Alps ...

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Raushan Kumar said the top three most difficult in the world for English native speakers are Mandarin, followed by Arabic and Japanese.

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