Matt Shumer, who was accused of fraud over HyperWrite's 70B-parameter AI model, says he “got ahead” of himself but doesn't explain why his model underperformed
Matt Shumer, co-founder and CEO of OthersideAI, also known as its signature AI assistant writing product HyperWrite …
I got ahead of myself when I announced this project, and I am sorry. That was not my intention. I made a decision to ship this new approach based on the information that we had at the moment. I know that many of you are excited about the potential for this and are now skeptical.
I want to address the confusion and valid criticisms that this has caused in the community. I am currently investigating what happened that led to this and will share a transparent summary as soon as possible. There are two areas I'd like to address, which I am investigating: -
Here's my story about hosting Reflection 70B on @hyperbolic_labs: On Sep 3, Matt Shumer reached out to us, saying he wanted to release a 70B LLM that should be the top OSS model (far ahead of 405B), and he asked if we were interested in hosting it. At that time, I thought it was …
A story about fraud in the AI research community: On September 5th, Matt Shumer, CEO of OthersideAI, announces to the world that they've made a breakthrough, allowing them to train a mid-size model to top-tier levels of performance. This is huge. If it's real. It isn't. [image]