Kumo AI's new RFM model showcases the power of more narrow foundation models

Kumo AI's new RFM model showcases the power of more narrow foundation models

There’s a lot of AI news this week from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, which we’ll cover in the news section below. Most of the product innovations these companies are rolling out are built on top of a few key “foundation” models. These are large AI models that, once trained, can perform all kinds of different tasks. Today’s large language models are trained to just predict the next word in a sentence, but after that training can perf…