The world of large language models has been slowly ticking along with new improvements and changes over time. We've seen iterations of GPT-4 come as OpenAI continues to improve the model, and advancements like Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have started to power local solutions like Chat with RTX. There's a lot more that could be happening in the world of language models though, and these are the things that we'd love to see next.
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