The Next Step in AI Evolution Elon #Musk is once again at the center of a discussion about key areas of technology development, and this time it’s about synthetic data. His words that humanity has exhausted almost all the available information for training AI sound impressive and frightening at the same time. If this is true, then a new era in the development of artificial intelligence is opening up before us. We are already seeing leading AI startups using synthetic data to train their models. Examples of Anthropic with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Meta with Llama 3.1, and OpenAI with their o1 project show that this technology is not just a theoretical concept, but a working tool. Synthetic data has become a way not only to get around the problem of a lack of real data, but also to significantly speed up the learning process. But it’s worth thinking about: what is synthetic data in its essence? It is information created by the AI itself for further use in training other models or its ow...
