A Chinese startup is proving you don't need deep pockets to build world-class AI. Deepseek's latest language model goes head-to-head with tech giants like Google and OpenAI - and they built it for a fraction of the usual cost.
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Researchers have unveiled Genesis, a new open-source simulation platform that aims to accelerate how AI systems learn to control robots.
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OpenAI's recent success with its o3 model suggests AI development isn't slowing down - in fact, it might be picking up speed, according to Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark.
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A new AI system can now watch soccer games, identify key plays, and even provide commentary similar to that of a human announcer.
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Meta's head of AI research Yann LeCun is pushing back against recent AGI hype, arguing that it isn't coming anytime soon. The path to true AI requires a combination of sensory learning, emotions, and the ability to model and reason about the world.
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OpenAI has announced o3, a new AI model that achieves breakthrough performance in complex reasoning tasks. A cost-effective mini version is set to launch in late January 2025, followed by the full version.
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Meta has developed a new AI architecture called Byte Latent Transformer (BLT) to solve a fundamental problem with today's language models: they can't reliably work with individual letters.
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OpenAI faces internal pushback after announcing a partnership with defense contractor Anduril. Some OpenAI employees express concerns about military applications of their AI technology.
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Five major Canadian media organizations filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the AI company used their content without permission to train ChatGPT.
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A new study from University College London shows that large language models predict scientific research results more accurately than human experts.
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A neuroscience writer caught Google's AI search presenting a completely fabricated medical condition as scientific fact. The incident raises questions about AI systems spreading misinformation while sounding authoritative.
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Researchers from Bytedance and Tsinghua University have found that current video AI models, such as OpenAI's Sora, can generate impressive images but lack understanding of the underlying physical laws.
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Microsoft Research has developed Magnetic-One, a multi-agent system designed to handle complex tasks that involve interacting with web content and files.
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A new survey has exposed a significant disconnect between public awareness and one of Europe's most important tech regulations.
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1/ OpenAI has revoked the API usage rights of an AI startup for developing a political chatbot called "Dean Bot" for Democratic US presidential candidate Dean Phillips.
1/ Nvidia expands its partnerships with the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to host the first proprietary AI model for phenomics, Phenom-Beta, developed by biopharmaceutical company Recursion.
2/ SMERF (Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields) is based on Memory-Efficient Radiance Fields (MERFs) and uses a hierarchical model partitioning scheme for memory-efficient rendering, as well as teacher-student distillation from a Zip-NeRF for better rendering quality.
1/ Google, DeepMind, and the University of Tübingen announce SMERF, a technology for real-time 3D rendering of large scenes, such as homes, on smartphones and laptops.