Weekly Newsletter #11
Hallucinated (a.k.a. fake) footnotes and citations were found inside a report that was made for Australian Government by Deloitte. The consultation company agreed to refund most of the money they got after this AI-generated fiasco. Will this be a wake-up call for corporations using AI outputs without any verification? 🚑
Kumru (which means dove in Turkish) is the first large language model trained from scratch in Turkish by VNGRS.
Most major models translate Turkish prompts into English behind the scenes, process them and translate them back but Kumru thinks in Turkish. Its tokenizer is trained specifically for Turkish, which could make a big difference. Though still early, Kumru has already achieved promising benchmark results compared to much larger open-source models. The developers admit it’s early days, but for the use of local institutions prioritizing data privacy, this looks like a solid local step forward.
tio
10/27/2025
