Author: Advanced AI Editor

Legal Innovators UK, the landmark legal tech conference in London, is fast approaching. Here’s a peek into what we’ll be exploring on Inhouse Day – 5th November. The overarching theme this year is: where have we got to with genAI and where are we heading next in terms of how inhouse teams are deploying the technology? Since November 2022 the field of legal tech has changed enormously and many businesses have brought in multiple new AI products, or products from companies that have updated their offering to wield genAI skills as well. But, what impact has this had? How has it changed…

Text-to-image diffusion models are computationally intensive, often requiring dozens of forward passes through large transformer backbones. For instance, Stable Diffusion XL generates high-quality images with 50 evaluations of a 2.6B-parameter model, an expensive process even for a single batch. Few-step diffusion models reduce this cost to 2-8 denoising steps but still depend on large, uncompressed U-Net or diffusion transformer backbones, which are often too costly for full-precision inference without datacenter GPUs. These requirements also limit existing post-training quantization methods that rely on full-precision calibration. We introduce Q-Sched, a new paradigm for post-training quantization that modifies the diffusion model scheduler rather…

ASML Holding ASML and France-based Mistral AI announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that combines semiconductor manufacturing expertise with frontier artificial intelligence capabilities to accelerate innovation across the semiconductor and AI value chain.ASML said it will apply Mistral’s AI models throughout its product portfolio and R&D operations to deliver faster time-to-market and higher-performance holistic lithography systems for its customers.To cement the collaboration, ASML is investing 1.3 billion euros as the lead investor in Mistral AI’s Series C funding round, acquiring an 11% stake on a fully diluted basis.Also Read: ASML Explores India As Geopolitical Risks Threaten China BusinessASML CEO Christophe…

On September 10, Smart Things reported that this morning, the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with AI startup G42, launched the new low-cost inference model K2 Think. The related paper has been published on the arXiv preprint platform, and the model was open-sourced on Hugging Face and GitHub yesterday afternoon.K2 Think has 32 billion parameters and is built on Alibaba’s open-source model Qwen 2.5, performing better than flagship inference models from OpenAI and DeepSeek that have 20 times the parameter scale.In the complex mathematical task benchmark tests, researchers calculated K2 Think’s average…

LONDON — ASML, a leading Dutch maker of chipmaking gear, is investing $1.5 billion into French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI, the two said on Tuesday, announcing a partnership between two of Europe’s top technology companies.ASML Holding, based in Veldhoven, Netherlands, holds an important role in the global tech industry because it makes equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, including the most advanced microchips used for cutting-edge AI systems.Mistral was founded two years ago in Paris by former researchers at Google DeepMind and Meta Platforms and quickly became a European tech darling.The partnership underscores Europe’s efforts to reduce exposure to American…

Too Long; Didn’t Read:Conversational AI and chatbots are mainstream in Mexico 2025 – 96% of companies use AI and the market is forecast to hit the low billions. New LFPDPPP (effective March 21, 2025) tightens privacy; teams must upskill, log transcripts, and meet 72‑hour breach and 20‑day ARCO timelines. Customer service in Mexico in 2025 is at an inflection point: conversational AI and chatbots are moving from experiments to everyday tools, with the Mexico conversational AI market forecasted to surge into the low billions in the next decade and national adoption already widespread – one study even found 96% of…

Too Long; Didn’t Read:AI is reshaping Malaysian customer service in 2025: nearly half of consumers prefer AI channels. Key stats – 4.2M workers (28%) highly AI‑exposed, ~45% tasks automatable, 81% firms struggle to hire. WhatsApp deployments 68%; entry bots MYR2,000–7,500; PDPA fines up to RM1,000,000. Malaysia’s customer service landscape in 2025 is being rewired by practical AI: nearly half of consumers now prefer AI channels and companies are racing to use agents to improve CX, while high‑level support – from the National AI Office’s roadmap to Budget 2025 funding – signals serious government backing for adoption and skills development; the…

Too Long; Didn’t Read:AI in Myanmar customer service (2025) offers fast wins – Burmese‑language chatbots, OCR/e‑KYC, ML fraud‑alerts – but requires pilots, governance and data: telecoms market USD 1.81B, 98% use online banking, 82.8% want alerts, only 41.7% comfortable with AI; ~95% pilots show little impact. For customer service professionals in Myanmar, 2025 is the moment to pay attention: local firms are already piloting AI for customer service chatbots and automated marketing, nudging everyday workflows toward faster responses and smarter routing (Latest Technology Trends in Myanmar 2025), while regional reports show AI can shave time from service tasks (RSM found…

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) is one of the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar. Answering a caller’s query about the company during the lightning round, Cramer stated: “I have to tell you, we liked them very much when they were on. But you know what we really liked? We liked the quantum story that Arvind Krishna had to say when we were up at IBM. And that stock, by the way, is very inexpensive… I think IBM gives you a lot more than just quantum.” Photo by Anton Maksimov juvnsky on Unsplash D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE:QBTS) provides quantum computing systems, cloud…

On the night of September 9, Tencent released and open-sourced the latest image model “Hunyuan Image 2.1”. This model boasts industry-leading capabilities and supports native 2K high-definition images.After its open-source release, the Hunyuan Image 2.1 model quickly climbed the popularity charts on Hugging Face, becoming the third most popular model globally. Among the top eight models on the list, the Tencent Hunyuan model family occupies three spots.At the same time, the Tencent Hunyuan team revealed that they will soon release a native multimodal image generation model.Hunyuan Image 2.1 is a comprehensive upgrade based on the 2.0 architecture, focusing more on…