Stale AI - Track release age and training cutoff for 20 models
Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
Stale AI is a static HTML dashboard that tracks how outdated 20 major AI models are from 8 labs. It shows days since release and training cutoff, with a ticking counter that reorders the shelf automatically. The tool highlights the critical gap between a model's release date and its training cutoff, revealing that even fresh models can be months behind on world events. With hand-checked dates from vendor docs, it helps developers avoid confidently wrong answers about current prices, versions, and model releases. Use it to check before trusting a model about models.
A number that moves is much harder to ignore than a number sitting in a changelog.
- gjskngnf
I remember when the US captured Venezuelan president Maduro, and when I posed a prompt related to this, the model said that’s pure fiction. I told it to double check. Still didn’t want to entertain the idea. It only acquiesced when I specifically directed it to check Reuters. I haven’t noticed this problem in months. Model cutoff seems to be less of a problem these days.
- ctkhn
For general purpose use this is interesting, but if I'm just using an LLM for coding, does this matter at all? I would hope something like a new java version after a model's publish date can be handled and understood by the model through tool calls and context even if it's not explicitly in the training data, the same way the LLM doesn't have my existing code or the plan to change it baked in from training.
- jasonjmcghee
It still matters, but in the age of good reasoning, tool use, and web search, this is much less of a problem than it used to be.
- SirMaster
This is one of the things that bothers me about AI.
To me, intelligence or an intelligent entity should be able to learn from its mistakes and learn new things on its own. Having to start from scratch to teach an AI new facts or new skills is not very intelligent IMO.
- ryanschaefer
Do people prefer the new flat style LLMs are producing? I don’t mind it as much as the gradient theme they were pumping out previously.