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An AI Lab Taught Chatbots to Read Letters Instead of Word-Chunks

Oct 16, 2026

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An AI Lab Taught Chatbots to Read Letters Instead of Word-Chunks

Ai2 converted an existing language model to read raw bytes for under 1% of normal training. It still trails its parent on most tests.

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