Hoover Senior Fellow Paola Sapienza and Institute for Progress’ Distinguished Immigration Counsel Amy Nice examine recently obtained data and explain why the common claim—that immigrants are hired as a source of cheap labor—doesn't hold up under scrutiny. In fact, the opposite may be true…
I’m working on a new vision-language model architecture called Onida. Our aim is to match—or surpass—the performance of leading VLMs like LLavA and CogVLM, while operating at a fraction of the cost. Unlike most existing VLMs, which layer vision components onto a language model as an afterthought, Onida is designed from first principles with a truly integrated approach.
This document [1] outlines our key differentiators, and we’re now inviting beta participants to explore and test the technology.
I largely share Yann LeCun’s perspective that scaling LLM-based approaches will eventually hit a plateau, and that a paradigm shift will be necessary. While there is ongoing debate about what that next paradigm should be, I outline my own views on the subject in this paper [1].