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Pathway's BDH-CQ model sets new ARC-AGI-1 cost-efficiency frontier

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Pathway has announced BDH-CQ, a 150 million parameter post-Transformer model that achieves a score of 29.5% on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark. This model reportedly sets a new cost-efficiency frontier, with a computed cost of only $0.0007 per task. The architecture utilizes recurrent memory and latent reasoning, diverging from traditional long token-based chains of thought. This development is potentially linked to a predicted architectural breakthrough in memory efficiency, with OpenAI researcher Lukasz Kaiser involved as an investor and advisor. AI

IMPACT This model's novel architecture and cost-efficiency could influence future AI development, particularly in memory-intensive tasks.

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Pathway's BDH-CQ model sets new ARC-AGI-1 cost-efficiency frontier

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  1. r/singularity TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Direct_Leader_1802 ·

    Did Pathway just reveal the architecture breakthrough Andrew Curran predicted? Its 150M model sets a new ARC-AGI-1 cost-efficiency frontier

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