“Nature is the most computationally efficient system we know”: How Refiant used swarm optimization to build a 10-million-token AI model

Oracle's Mark Hura: your AI edge is your data

The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an AI stack at all. They are chasing an outcome. Take a […] This story continues at The Next Web

“Nature is the most computationally efficient system we know”: How Refiant used swarm optimization to build a 10-million-token AI model

While the household-name frontier models race forward with version numbers and context windows of at least a million tokens, a new breed of upstart data science specialists is pushing the context window into double figures.  Subquadratic debuted a 12-million-token window in May of this year, and Silicon Valley and South Africa-based Refiant launched its 10-million-token context-window model, Protea, on Wednesday. It’s a move that may signal the …

South African-Founded Refiant Launches 10 Million Token Context Window Model As Long-Context AI Race Heats Up

Refiant, an AI optimisation company, today launched Protea – its suite of long-context AI models – with a 10 million-token context window, one of the largest ever made publicly available, accessible immediately via refiant.ai. Until now, AI has been constrained by how much it can see at once. The most capable models struggle with more than a few hundred thousand tokens in working memory, forcing elaborate workarounds to compensate for what the m…

SA’s Refiant debuts long-context AI models

South African start-up Refiant has launched Protea, its suite of long-context AI models. With a 10 million-token context window, it is one of the largest ever made publicly available, and is accessible immediately. Until now, AI has been constrained by how much it can see at once. The most capable models struggle with more than a few hundred thousand tokens in working memory, forcing elaborate workarounds to compensate for what the model can’t a…

Refiant goes where rivals only promised with a 10 million-token AI model

Artificial intelligence optimization startup Refiant Inc. today launched Protea, a suite of long-context AI models led by a 10 million-token context window that the company says ranks among the largest ever made publicly available. Context windows determine how much information a model can hold in working memory at once. Most leading models handle no more […] The post Refiant goes where rivals only promised with a 10 million-token AI model appea…