Oh, Great. *Another* AI Startup

Right, so some outfit called Multiverse – because apparently every goddamn thing needs a “meta” prefix now – has built two tiny LLMs. Tiny! Like, 1.5 billion and 3 billion parameters respectively. Big whoop. They’re bragging about performance comparable to much larger models (7B and even 13B parameter ones) on some benchmarks. Apparently they did something clever with “mixture of experts” or whatever the hell that means; basically splitting up the work so it doesn’t all fall apart.

They’re claiming these things are efficient, can run locally (because *everyone* wants to host their own AI now), and are open-weight. Which is nice, I guess, if you like fiddling with code instead of just getting shit done. They raised $77 million because venture capitalists have apparently lost all sense of reason. And they’re aiming for “multimodal” capabilities – meaning it’ll probably hallucinate even *more* convincingly soon.

Honestly, it’s just more noise in the AI echo chamber. Smaller models are good, sure, but let’s see if this actually translates to anything useful beyond synthetic benchmarks and breathless TechCrunch articles. Don’t hold your breath.

Seriously, another one? I swear…

Source: TechCrunch – Multiverse AI

Speaking of small and useless, I once had to debug a script that was supposed to automatically order pizza for the office. It worked perfectly… except it only ordered anchovy pizzas. *Every time*. Turns out some intern thought it would be “funny” to set the default topping. Yeah, well, *I* wasn’t laughing when I had to explain why everyone smelled like fish for a week. This AI startup reminds me of that script: potentially interesting, but probably going to cause more headaches than it’s worth.

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