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AI agents in 2025 will be all about managing inflated expectations
The AI world is abuzz with predictions about agents in 2025. But some of the people laying the groundwork are more cautious about the timeline. Logan Kilpatrick, who heads up Google AI Studio and ...
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The great AI scaling debate continues into 2025
Gary Marcus kicked off the year with his characteristic skepticism. "OpenAI will continue to preview products months and perhaps years before they are solid and widely available at an accessible price ...
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Nvidia acquired more companies in 2024 than in the previous four years combined
Nvidia significantly ramped up its startup investments in 2024, pouring $1 billion into 50 different funding rounds and several corporate deals. That's a significant jump from its $872 million ...
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Microsoft's new Large Action Model can perform some tasks in Word
Microsoft researchers have developed what they're calling a "Large Action Model" (LAM) - an AI that can operate Windows programs on its own. This marks a shift from AIs that just talk about doing ...
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OpenAI's o1-preview model manipulates game files to force a win against Stockfish in chess
Instead of playing a proper game of chess against Stockfish, a dedicated chess engine, o1-preview figured out how to hack its test environment to force a win. According to Palisade Research, an AI ...
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AI companies slash prices in battle for market share
The cloud computing arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba just announced eye-watering price cuts of up to 85% across its AI offerings. The steepest discount applies to their visual language model Qwen-VL, ...
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Deepseek-V3 emerges as China's most powerful open-source language model to date
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has introduced DeepSeek-V3, its most powerful language model to date, featuring 671 billion parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture. DeepSeek-V3 was trained on ...
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DiffSensei: AI pioneers Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio star in fictional manga created by new AI system
Researchers have developed an AI system that can turn written stories into manga-style comics automatically. The system, called DiffSensei, can maintain consistent character appearances and control ...
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Hugging Face's Smolagents framework simplifies building AI agents with just a few lines of code
Hugging Face just released "smolagents," a stripped-down open-source library that lets developers create AI agents with minimal code. The library itself is remarkably lightweight, containing just ...
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Meta envisions social networks where AI characters coexist alongside human accounts
Meta is laying the groundwork for a future where AI-generated profiles will interact alongside regular users on Facebook and Instagram, with some of these tools already rolling out. According to ...
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Deepseek's V3 is the latest example of state-controlled censorship in Chinese LLMs
Users have discovered a way to bypass Deepseek V3's content filters through prompt engineering. By asking the model to insert periods between letters, they can get it to provide more balanced or China ...
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OpenAI co-founder says new AI safety approach "may apply to AGI and beyond"
Instead of just learning from examples of good and bad behavior, their latest o-series models can understand and actively reason through specific safety guidelines, the company says. In one example ...