Hacker News with Generative AI: AI Development

"Grok 3's Think mode identifies as Claude 3.5 Sonnet (websmithing.com)
I discovered unusual behavior in xAI’s Grok 3 that raises questions about what’s actually running behind the interface when “Think” mode is activated.
Artificial Intelligence, AI Development, Research
22 points by nickfox 12 days ago | 13 comments
AI CUDA Engineer: Agentic CUDA Kernel Discovery, Optimization and Composition (sakana.ai)
At Sakana AI, we believe the path to develop much stronger AI systems is to automate the development of AI using AI. We aim to develop AI systems that can create even more capable and efficient AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence, CUDA, Optimization, Software Engineering, AI Development
45 points by throwing_away 107 days ago | 6 comments
CUDA is the incumbent, but is it any good? (modular.com)
Answering the question of whether CUDA is “good” is much trickier than it sounds. Are we talking about its raw performance? Its feature set? Perhaps its broader implications in the world of AI development? Whether CUDA is “good” depends on who you ask and what they need. In this post, we’ll evaluate CUDA from the perspective of the people who use it day-in and day-out—those who work in the GenAI ecosystem:
CUDA, Generative AI, Performance, Machine Learning, AI Development
17 points by mfiguiere 107 days ago | 1 comments
Explainer: What's r1 and everything else? (timkellogg.me)
Is AI making you dizzy? A lot of industry insiders are feeling the same. R1 just came out a few days ago out of nowhere, and then there’s o1 and o3, but no o2. Gosh! It’s hard to know what’s going on. This post aims to be a guide for recent AI develoments. It’s written for people who feel like they should know what’s going on, but don’t, because it’s insane out there.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Explainers, AI Development
262 points by Philpax 133 days ago | 125 comments