This Weeks Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 28) [Video]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A Tiny New Open-Source AI Model Performs as Well as Powerful Big OnesMelissa Heikkiläarchive page | MIT Technology Review“[The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)] claims that its biggest Molmo model, which has 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which is estimated to have over a trillion parameters, in tests that measure things like understanding images, charts, and documents. Meanwhile, Ai2 says a smaller Molmo model, with 7 billion parameters, comes close to OpenAI’s state-of-the-art model in performance, an achievement it ascribes to vastly more efficient data collection and training methods.”

AUGMENTED REALITY

Hands On With Orion, Meta’s First Pair of AR GlassesAlex Heath | The Verge“They look almost like a normal pair of glasses. That’s the first thing I notice as I walk into a conference room at Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The black Clark Kent-esque frames sitting on the table in front of me …