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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”
Thanks to distillation, developers and businesses can access these models’ capabilities at a fraction of…
AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence
But most of these predictions are coming from people working in companies with a commercial…
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Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks
Sergey Brin co-founded Google in the 1990s along with Larry Page, but both stepped away…
“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews
Perhaps because of the disappointing results, Altman had previously written that GPT-4.5 will be the…
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Screenshot showing Copilot continues to serve tools Microsoft took action to have removed from GitHub.…
Microsoft brings an official Copilot app to macOS for the first time
It took a couple of years, but it happened: Microsoft released its Copilot AI assistant…
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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA's…
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Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code
The researchers observed this "emergent misalignment" phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though…
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Amazon’s subscription-based Alexa+ looks highly capable—and questionable
NEW YORK—After teasing it in September 2023 and reportedly suffering delays, Amazon today announced that…
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Grok’s new “unhinged” voice mode can curse and scream, simulate phone sex
On Sunday, xAI released a new voice interaction mode for its Grok 3 AI model…