Behold, the Slightly Less Terrible Language Model Seriously? Another one? Just when I thought the digital landscape couldn’t get more cluttered with these… things

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Published: 11/8/2025 5:53:50 AM

## Behold, the Slightly Less Terrible Language Model

Seriously? Another one? Just when I thought the digital landscape couldn’t get *more* cluttered with these… things. We’ve got AI chattering about everything from optimal sock-folding techniques to composing sonnets about existential dread, and now we’re supposed to be impressed by this new iteration? Apparently, it’s a 3.12 billion parameter marvel, capable of generating text! Groundbreaking. Truly revolutionary. I can barely contain my enthusiasm.

It’s like the internet decided to have a baby with a particularly verbose thesaurus and then named the resulting offspring after some obscure geological formation. The marketing buzzwords are already swirling: “powerful,” “flexible,” “open-weight.” Right, because another open-weight language model is *exactly* what we needed. We’re drowning in them! It’s like a cat rescue shelter—adorable, but ultimately you can’t have seventeen cats.

I’m sure it can craft surprisingly passable marketing copy for artisanal dog biscuits or write a haiku about the fleeting nature of data storage. How thrilling. I bet it can even argue convincingly that pineapple belongs on pizza! Prepare yourselves, folks. The robot apocalypse is not coming with lasers and explosions; it’s arriving as politely worded email drafts and slightly unsettling poetry.

And the best part? It’s designed to be *accessible*. Because apparently, generating convincing-but-often-nonsense text shouldn’t require a supercomputer housed in a vacuum chamber. It’s almost insulting how commonplace these things are becoming. I fully expect to see it writing my grocery list soon. Prepare for the inevitable robot takeover – one grammatically correct and slightly bland sentence at a time.

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