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model

[mod-l] / ˈmΙ’d l /




NOUN
person, thing that poses
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VERB
display, pose
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Evaluators at Chinese AI safety startup Fangcun AI published a report last month assessing the latest lightweight DeepSeek model "for loss of control and harmful manipulation risks".

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

The results showed that the AI model could accurately recreate how laser pulses change over time and across different frequencies, even under particularly challenging conditions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

"One successful flight will not prove that model, but it could mark an important transition: from demonstrating that Starship can fly, to demonstrating how Starship could operate."

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

The company has been pursuing a new life after shutting down its multilevel marketing model, reducing marketing costs as a share of revenue in the process, and putting its nutrition offer ahead of workouts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

She tilted her head left and right as the model twitched the fan open and waved it around.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

To build the most advanced AI models and chase the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

By physically bringing Nvidia chips into China, Chinese AI developers keep their computing power nearby, making it easier to test, train and fine-tune powerful AI models, engineers say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026

They found it showed a "clear safety improvement" over previous DeepSeek models -- but researchers still observed behaviours "that warrant attention".

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

Combining these models could make it possible to predict the behavior of an entire experimental system while it is running.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Everything from T-shirts and posters to models and bookends.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

I watched Muslim American life become louder and more assured, as actors like Ramy Youssef and Mo Amer modeled success in entertainment.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

And while Rocket Lab projected fourth-quarter revenue that, at the high point of $290 million, would represent a nearly 10% increase compared to expectations, it modeled a steeper adjusted loss than expected.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

His “Radio Nurse” of 1937, a Bakelite early baby monitor designed for the Zenith Radio Corporation, mounted its loudspeaker in an abstract streamlined head that might have been modeled by Brancusi, his teacher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

The post claimed to draw inspiration from Paul Verhoeven’s “Starship Troopers,” in which the soldiers are deliberately modeled on the fascist aesthetic and ideology of the Nazis.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

“All the way up, at the top of the golden spire. There is a weather vane there in the form of a ship. It is modeled after one of Peter the Great’s actual ships.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Joe Burrow attended Milan fashion week this summer and modelled in Paris in 2024, but this week he visited Madrid to play his first international game.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

“Our model reaches 151 tons/annum at run rate, 64% of Mt Weld’s modelled 235 tons/annum,” Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Its ruling Communist Party has used five-year plans modelled on those of the former Soviet Union to set its development targets and social priorities since the 1950s.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

The framework would be replaced by rules modelled on New Zealand's privacy legislation, which Reform says has the lightest-touch regime still recognised as being "adequate" by the EU.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

This meant, at least in theory, you’d be able to find the person you were modelled from.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Accurately modeling their quantum behavior traditionally requires enormous computational resources, making it challenging to evaluate large numbers of possible candidates.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

“I’m disappointed to learn images of me modeling for Prada are circulating,” he wrote alongside a grayscale fashion editorial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Wall Street is modeling for revenue of $417.7 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Combined with computer modeling, these measurements helped establish how the different microscopic processes worked together to prevent brittle failure.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

The second reconciliation—between genetics and evolution—required more than mathematical modeling; it hinged on experimental data.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

To understand how this modelling works, think of it as predicting invisible patterns by combining known data points with environmental signals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Instead of assuming data for every region, this modelling uses statistical probability to calculate a range of likely outcomes based on environmental signals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

The research team also used mathematical modelling to investigate how the spread of megaraptors around the world might have changed over time, based on fossils discovered so far, dinosaurs' evolutionary trees, geography and climate.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The modelling is on the lighter end of military combat planning, Coates said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

References to the theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus are thus references to their mathematical modelling of the cosmos.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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