Author: Advanced AI Editor

One pressing question at the artificial-intelligence (AI) summit in Paris this week was this: is Mistral AI’s assistant a cat, or a chat? Called Le Chat and developed by a French startup as a competitor to ChatGPT, it launched as a smartphone app on February 6th. To the English speaker, Le Chat looks like a French twist on AI chat, which it conducts in English (and other languages). Yet at the jamboree President Emmanuel Macron plugged it using a soft “sh”, rendering Le Chat distinctly feline. Arthur Mensch, Mistral’s 32-year-old boss, says his baby is indeed four-legged. Look carefully at…

The latest speculation about DeepSeek-R2 – the successor to the R1, reasoning model, which was released in January – that surfaced over the weekend included the product’s imminent launch and the purported new benchmarks it set for cost-efficiency and performance.That reflects heightened online interest in DeepSeek after it generated worldwide attention from late December 2024 to January by consecutively releasing two advanced open-source AI models, V3 and R1, which were built at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major tech companies typically require for large language model (LLM) projects. LLM refers to the technology underpinning generative AI…

Alibaba Cloud has bolstered its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for international customers, unveiling a suite of new models, tools and infrastructure upgrades. Announced at the company’s Spring Launch 2025 online event, the new offerings focus on providing scalable AI offerings, particularly in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). “We are launching a series of platform-as-a-service [PaaS] and AI capability updates to meet the growing demand for digital transformation from across the globe,” said Selina Yuan, president of international business at Alibaba Cloud. “These upgrades allow us to deliver even more secure and…

SUZHOU, China, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On 26 March, Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as China’s first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university. AI+education: Redefining learning Through AI-driven innovation, Pudu Co-Intelligence seeks to transform the whole education value chain, empower industrial evolution and cultivate localised service ecosystems. The company will soon launch the Pudu Co-Intelligence AI Forum, bringing together Baidu’s chief scientists, XJTLU’s AI researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to share their thinking on cutting-edge technologies, AI research, interpretation of relevant policies, and personal experience…

NVIDIA is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas. NVIDIA Blackwell chips have started production at TSMC’s chip plants in Phoenix, Arizona. NVIDIA is building supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas, with Foxconn in Houston and with Wistron in Dallas. Mass production at both plants is expected to ramp up in the…

Meta Platforms experienced a notable price move of 9%, significantly outpacing the broader market’s 5% gain over the same period. This upward momentum coincides with their collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton on the Space Llama AI tech stack, an initiative that underscores Meta’s capability in advancing AI technology for both space operations and terrestrial industries. The innovative characteristics of Space Llama, especially its application in space missions, may have bolstered investor confidence, adding weight to the broader positive market trends. As the market sees continued recovery, Meta’s developments highlight its potential contribution to technological advancements. Every company has risks, and…

Have you ever wished you could replicate a complex or copy n8n workflows in seconds, without wrestling with code or spending hours on tedious configurations? Imagine taking an intricate n8n automation—complete with error-handling nodes, third-party integrations, and custom triggers—and recreating it almost effortlessly. It might sound too good to be true, but with the help of Claude AI, this is now a reality. By combining the power of artificial intelligence with workflow automation, you can bypass the traditional headaches of manual JSON editing and instead rely on a tool that understands your needs through simple prompts and visual references. The…

Staff inside Google DeepMind are attempting to unionise in order to challenge the tech company’s ties with the Israeli government and its decision to sell artificial intelligence technologies to defence groups, according to reports.  Figures with knowledge of the organising spoke to the Financial Times and said approximately 300 employees inside Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence London office, want to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU).   “We’re putting two and two together and think the technology we’re developing is being used in the conflict [in Gaza],” said one engineer involved in the unionisation effort.  “This is basically cutting-edge…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More An AI assistant that unequivocally agrees with everything you say and supports you — even the your most outlandish and obviously false ideas — sounds like something out of a cautionary sci-fi short story from Philip K. Dick. But it appears to be the reality for a number of users of OpenAI’s hit chatbot ChatGPT, specifically for interactions with the underlying GPT-4o large language multimodal model (OpenAI also offers ChatGPT users six other underlying LLMs to choose between to power the…

Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in The Last Of Us season 2HBO Season 2, episode 3 of HBO’s The Last of Us sees Ellie (Bella Ramsey) setting off to hunt down Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), and introduces two warring factions known as the Wolves (W.L.F.) and the Scars (Seraphites). Spoilers Ahead Like the audience, Ellie is still reeling after the shocking murder of Joel (Pedro Pascal) in episode 2, and sets off for some ill-advised revenge. It turns out, Abby and her murderous companions are “Wolves,” members of the Washington Liberation Front (W.L.F.), one of many militias crawling around in the post-apocalyptic, fungi-infested…