Author: Advanced AI Bot

Startup Deep Cogito Inc. launched today with a series of language models that it claims can outperform comparably sized open-source alternatives.  According to TechCrunch, the company was founded last June by former Google LLC staffers Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malhotra. Arora worked as a senior software engineer at the search giant. Malhotra, in turn, was a product manager at the Google DeepMind machine learning lab. The duo have raised an undisclosed amount of funding from South Park Commons. Deep Cogito’s lineup of open-source language models is known as the Cogito v1 series. The algorithms are available in five sizes ranging…

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…

Silver Lining: Nvidia has been significantly impacted by the tariffs introduced by Donald Trump on April 2. The company sources nearly all of its GPU products from TSMC and is likely to face price increases in the near future. However, according to market analysts, data center servers for AI workloads could partially avoid the new tariffs. The technology industry is still grappling with the aftermath of the new economic policy imposed by the US administration on its traditional partners and competitors. Meanwhile, analysts are trying to determine whether some of the most popular tech stocks could show resilience in the…

A newly unredacted court filing on March 19 in the ongoing copyright lawsuit Kadrey v. Meta has disclosed that Meta benefits financially from revenue-sharing agreements with companies that host its Llama models. The lawsuit accuses Meta of using hundreds of terabytes of pirated ebooks to train its Llama models, and the latest filings indicate that Meta ‘shares a percentage of the revenue’ generated by firms providing access to the AI. While the documents do not specify which hosting companies pay Meta, the company has publicly listed several Llama host partners, including Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Nvidia, Databricks, Groq, Dell, and…

(TNS) — Northeastern University is pioneering the use of a new artificial intelligence tool created for higher education institutions, according to a Wednesday announcement.The tool, called Claude for Education, was created by AI safety and research company Anthropic. It isn’t designed to provide students with answers. Rather, it is created to question and guide students through a reasoning process that helps to develop their critical thinking skills.The AI tool also helps administrative staff and faculty to create rubrics for specific learning outcomes, provide individualized feedback efficiently or convert dense policy documents into accessible FAQ formats.“AI is a tool that will…

1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is coming to the Las Vegas SphereUsing the power of AI, Google is reimagining the film for the 16k spherical screenThe Wizard of Oz at The Sphere opens on August 28The Wizard of Oz is coming to the Las Vegas Sphere, and it’s all thanks to Google’s incredible AI technology.Following last week’s announcement that the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is being reimagined for Las Vegas’ iconic 16K LED screen spherical theater, set to open on August 28, Google is now giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the magic behind the production.While The…

SANTA MONICA, CA – APRIL 5: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (R) and Oliver Louis Mulherin (L) attend the 11th … More Annual Breakthrough Prize Awards and Ceremony at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica of Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)Anadolu via Getty Images When OpenAI closed its record-breaking $40 billion funding round—led by SoftBank and rumored to include Microsoft and a syndicate of big-name investors—it didn’t just rewrite the playbook for tech financing. It signaled the dawn of a radically different future for work. With a valuation now topping $300 billion, OpenAI has…

James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of films like Avatar, Terminator and Titanic, appears cautiously optimistic about the role generative AI can play in filmmaking, though even if he is wary of the “in the style of” prompts that have proliferated after images in the style of Studio Ghibli flooded the internet over the past few weeks. “I think we should discourage the text prompt that says, ‘in the style of James Cameron,’ or ‘in the style of Zack Snyder,’” Cameron said on a podcast Wednesday, adding that “makes me a little bit queasy.” And yet, Cameron acknowledges that the ability…

After Elon Musk filed a lawsuit last year against the Sam Altman-run AI firm OpenAI, a group of former employees of the company this week has filed a legal brief supporting the xAI and Tesla leader’s case. On Friday, a group of 12 former OpenAI employees said in a court filing that the company’s restructuring efforts would “fundamentally violate” the original non-profit mission, as detailed in a report from Reuters. The employees said they were in technical and leadership positions at the company, along with explaining that they believed the not-for-profit model was important for a variety of reasons. During…

A screenshot of various Claude pricing plans captured on April 9, 2025. Credit: Benj Edwards Probably not coincidentally, the highest Max plan matches the price point of OpenAI’s $200 “Pro” plan for ChatGPT, which promises “unlimited” access to OpenAI’s models, including more advanced models like “o1-pro.” OpenAI introduced this plan in December as a higher tier above its $20 “ChatGPT Plus” subscription, first introduced in February 2023. The pricing war between Anthropic and OpenAI reflects the resource-intensive nature of running state-of-the-art AI models. While consumer expectations push for unlimited access, the computing costs for running these models—especially with longer contexts…