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Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s Llama 3 lead Hugging Face’s new open weights LLM leaderboard

Top stories today:

  1. Alibaba’s Qwen leads Hugging Face’s open weights LLM leaderboard
  2. AirPods with camera modules may launch in 2026
  3. 51M people watched CNN debate live, skewing towards 55+

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1. Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s Llama 3 lead Hugging Face’s new open weights LLM leaderboard

Google’s Gemma 2 is the leading open model on LMSYS’s leaderboard, where people vote (blindly) on which AI chatbot is best

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4. 51M people watched CNN’s Biden, Trump debate live, skewing towards 55+

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