Austrian LLM Claims it Outperforms ChatGPT, Also Offers Reduced Bias

The creators of Oscar Stories are launching LORA, an AI tool that engages children in science education in a playful manner.

LORA relies on fine-tuning open-source models from Mistral. By utilizing specially curated, high-quality datasets created in collaboration with educators, LORA achieves better results than GPT-4 or Gemini.

The goal is to provide children with a fairer perspective of the world and to optimize the representation of gender roles in AI-generated content, according to founders Dima Rubanov and Matthias Neumayer.

“While working with AI-generated children's stories, we noticed that male children were often portrayed as heroes, while female characters frequently took on victim roles, and the language used, even in GPT-4o, was hardly child-friendly," explained Rubanov. "With LORA, we are working on a child-friendly AI adaptation with reduced bias."

LORA is being developed in collaboration with the Munich Social Pedagogy Academy and TRUSTIFAI. The project is funded, among others, by the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Business Location (BMDW) and Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS).

The experimental AI Lorastral-7B is based on Mistral's powerful open-source model and has been optimized for educational purposes with contributions from educators. A unique feature is the age-appropriate language that optimally adapts content for different age groups (6-8 and 8-10 years).

LORA achieves outstanding results in explaining German terms for children. Compared to other models, LORA offers significantly improved readability for children, according to the founders.

LORA shows a significant improvement over other models in the use of gender-neutral language in initial benchmarks.
In the long term, the company plans to make the underlying API accessible to other providers in the children's entertainment sector to foster the development of further innovative and educational applications for children.

LORA is currently in the alpha phase and is seeking partners for integration into educational platforms.

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