AI & Enterprise

Most-liked AI models differ from most-downloaded, with smaller models preferred in real-world use

A wide gap has emerged between the latest, very large AI models that draw the most attention and the models most used in actual development, according to a comparison by Hugging Face. Only 1 model appeared on both the top 25 most-downloaded list and the top 25 most-liked list. Downloads were dominated by smaller models, while very large models accounted for only a small share. Older models also continued to lead usage.

AI & Enterprise

Kakao language model Kanana-2 outperforms overseas models in safety assessment

Kakao has disclosed numerical safety verification results for its self-developed lightweight language models. The company said on Aug. 18 that two open-source models in its Kanana-2 series scored higher than major global models of similar size on assessments of harmfulness and bias, confirming top-tier safety. The evaluation used AssurAI, a Korea-designed safety benchmark, and compared the models with Google’s Gemma and Alibaba’s Qwen.