IBL News | New York
Stanford University released Co-STORM this month, a research prototype LLM that writes Wikipedia-like articles from scratch based on Internet searches.
According to the institution, experienced Wikipedia editors have found it helpful in their pre-writing stage.
STORM — Synthesis of Topic Outline through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking — has been tried by over 70,000 people on its live preview page.
Available on GitHub, the model breaks down generating long articles with citations into two steps: a pre-writing stage when it collects references and generates an outline, and a writing stage when the system generates a full-length article with citations.
STORM simulates a conversation between a Wikipedia writer and a topic expert grounded in Internet sources to enable the language model to update its understanding of the topic and ask follow-up questions.
