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Ritoban Mukherjee

The Reflection 70B model held huge promise for AI but now its creators are accused of fraud — here's what went wrong

Adobe Firefly AI image of a Llama looking in a mirror.

The creators of Reflection 70B, a tuned-up version of Meta Llama 70B that was recently touted as the world’s top open-source AI model, have just opened up after being accused of fraud. 

Based on independent tests run by Artificial Analysis, the model fails to deliver on the promises made by Matt Shumer, CEO of OthersideAI and HypeWrite, the company behind Reflection 70B. Shumer, who initially attributed the discrepancies to an issue with the model’s upload process, has since admitted that he may have gotten ahead of himself in the claims he had made.

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