Modeling industry articles

  • Tesla cuts prices of Model Y, Model X, Model S vehicles in US

    Tesla cut the prices for its Model Y, Model X and Model S vehicles in the U.S. by $2,000 each on Friday, according to the electric vehicle maker's website. Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker lowered the prices for its Model Y base variant to $42,990, while the long-range and performance variants are now priced at $47,990 and $51,490, respectively, the website showed. The basic version of the Model S now costs $72,990 and its plaid variant $87,990. The Model X base variant now costs $77,990 and...
  • A vegan cheese was selected to win an industry award. Then the industry found out.

    A vegan cheese was selected to be a finalist in the Good Food Awards, and, it turns out, was going to win in its cheesey category. But when the business got wind of it, it was suddenly disqualified without explanation. The reasons ultimately squeezed from it were desperate: first, the presence of a banned ingredient that wasn't even present, on the basis of a rule they added to the rulebook after the finalists were announced, then a claim that all entries must be ready for retail—which, it turns...
  • Microsoft introduces Phi-3 family of models that outperform other models of its class

    Back in December 2023, Microsoft released Phi-2 model with 2.7 billion parameters that delivered state-of-the-art performance among base language models with less than 13 billion parameters. In the past four months, several other models that got released outperformed Phi-2. Recently, Meta released Llama-3 family of models that outperformed all the previously released open-source models. Last […]