3 November 2026
Study shows a language model can directly edit another model's weights
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- Researchers report that a capable AI model can read and modify a smaller model's internal settings, called weights, without human-written training code.
- The result suggests models could in principle train other models on their own, without a person writing the usual training scripts.
- The newsletter Latent Space reports this as a notable step, while also flagging that the findings may be overstated and that understanding these internals remains limited.
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Only Latent Space, of the 30 newsletters Newskeryx tracks, covered this study. The archive's earlier stories on this thread are a guide to splitting one language model across two GPU servers on AWS (2026-10-20) and a piece on how children learn language more efficiently than AI (2026-08-24).
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