Author: Advanced AI Editor

Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems Inc. says it’s getting some serious traction in its bid to rival Nvidia Corp. in powering artificial intelligence workloads. The company announced today it has made some groundbreaking achievements in terms of molecular dynamics simulations and sparse training, advancing materials research and enabling powerful large language models to be trained more quickly at significantly lower costs. The breakthroughs came as the company announced it has entered into a multiyear partnership with Aleph Alpha GmbH, which is regarded as one of Europe’s hottest generative AI startups. Cerebras said it will work with Aleph Alpha on…

Microsoft Corp MSFT backed OpenAI’s rival in China, Zhipu AI, is attracting significant foreign investment from Saudi Arabia’s Prosperity7, a part of Aramco’s venture capital arm.Prosperity7’s $400 million investment in Zhipu AI values the start-up at approximately $3 billion, making it the first notable foreign backer for one of China’s leading generative AI companies.Zhipu AI, along with its peers Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and 01.ai, has traditionally relied on support from government funds and local cloud providers, the Financial Times reports.Also Read: Microsoft in High-Level Talks with China: A New Era for AI and Trade Cooperation on the Horizon?Prosperity7’s minority stake…

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Tech firms huge and small will converge in Shanghai this weekend to showcase their artificial intelligence innovations and support China’s booming AI sector as it faces U.S. sanctions.Chinese companies from heavy hitters Huawei and Alibaba to ambitious startups will dominate the two-day World AI Conference, but Western names like Tesla, Alphabet and Amazon will also participate.Chinese Premier Li Qiang will address the opening of the conference, highlighting the sector’s importance to the leaders of the world’s second-largest economy. Beijing has made AI and self-sufficiency in other cutting-edge technologies a pillar of its national development plan, saying it aims…

The AI world is growing exponentially – at a rate we would have never imagined a year ago. One of the major players in this domain is Open AI (creator of ChatGPT and Sora), but a new player in the market, Mistral AI, could rival Open AI’s prominence. Even Microsoft (an existing investor in Open AI) is backing this AI startup by pouring $16 million into it. If you’re an AI enthusiast like me and have already used text models like ChatGPT, you’d definitely be looking to test Mistral AI. In this guide, I’ll reveal easy ways to use Mistral…

C3 AI founder and Chief Executive Officer Tom Siebel today announced that he will step down because of health issues. Shares of the artificial intelligence company closed 11% lower on the news. In a note, Wedbush Securities Inc. analyst Dan Ives told investors that Siebel’s resignation “significantly increases” the chance of C3 AI getting acquired. He estimates a sale could happen in the next three to 12 months. “After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in early 2025, I have experienced significant visual impairment,” Siebel said in a statement. “For C3 AI to reach its full potential — which I…

Alibaba has launched Qwen3-Coder, its most advanced agentic AI coding model to date. Designed for high-performance software development, Qwen3-Coder excels in agentic AI coding tasks, from generating new codes and managing complex coding workflows to debugging across entire codebases. Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct achieves competitive results against leading state-of-the-art (SOTA) models across key benchmarks Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, this open-sourced model Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, which has a total of 480 billion parameters but activates 35 billion parameters per token, delivers efficiency without sacrificing performance. The model achieves competitive results against leading state-of-the-art (SOTA) models across key…

Demand in China is soaring for the repair of banned Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) artificial intelligence chipsets, including H100 and A100 GPUs, despite U.S. export restrictions aimed at curbing Chinese technological and military advancements. Around a dozen boutique firms in Shenzhen now specialize in repairing these high-end GPUs, which continue to enter China through smuggling channels. The H100, prohibited from sale to China since September 2022, remains highly sought after for training large language models, outperforming locally developed alternatives such as Huawei’s AI chips. Repair companies report servicing up to 500 GPUs monthly, offering diagnostics, memory and PCB repairs, and testing…

Thousands of educational institutions that use popular ed-tech platform Canvas to assign coursework, score tests, and design lesson plans will soon receive even more AI features in coming months.Part of a series of industry-wide collaborations, the platform’s parent company, Instructure, has signed on to a new partnership with OpenAI, an initiative that will see the learning software leverage OpenAI’s tech to build out more AI experiences for users.Teachers, for example, will gain access to AI-powered personalization, feedback, and assessment data, the companies explain. “Routine and low-value tasks,” will be automated, and students will experience more “personalized, adaptable learning journeys” with…

MacArthur Fellow and Leader in Common Sense AI to Continue Her Groundbreaking Research at Stanford HAI STANFORD, Calif., January 16, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) today announced the appointment of NVIDIA’s Yejin Choi as the Dieter Schwartz Foundation HAI Professor, Professor of Computer Science, and Stanford HAI Senior Fellow. In this role, Choi, a MacArthur Fellow and a leader in natural language processing (NLP) focusing on aligning AI with societal values and human intentions, will continue her groundbreaking study of common sense AI and the shift from LLMs to SLMs. Choi joins the esteemed Stanford HAI team,…

SHARES of International Business Machines declined the most since April 2024 after the company reported weaker-than-expected sales in its closely watched software segment disappointing investors who have grown increasingly optimistic about the business. Second-quarter software unit sales increased 10 per cent to US$7.39 billion, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, slightly below analysts’ average estimate of US$7.49 billion. The company’s consulting business, which has been experiencing a growth slump, generated a revenue bump of 3 per cent to US$5.31 billion.Investors have been enthusiastic about IBM’s software business and the potential for future growth from artificial intelligence tools and quantum…