Author: Advanced AI Editor
China’s leading tech firms, including ByteDance, Alibaba (HK:9988), and Tencent (HK:0700), have reportedly stockpiled close to one million units of Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) H20 AI chips in anticipation of tightened U.S. export restrictions, according to Nikkei Asia. The bulk purchases—valued at over $12 billion—aimed to secure nearly a year’s supply before the April export ban took effect. The H20 chip, a scaled-down version of Nvidia’s high-performance H100, is tailored to meet U.S. export controls and is widely used for AI inference tasks. Demand for AI computing in China is soaring, driven by the rapid growth of AI-powered applications like DeepSeek, now…
Global healthcare providers are exploring use of large language models (LLMs) to provide medical advice to the public. LLMs now achieve nearly perfect scores on medical licensing exams, but this does not necessarily translate to accurate performance in real-world settings. We tested if LLMs can assist members of the public in identifying underlying conditions and choosing a course of action (disposition) in ten medical scenarios in a controlled study with 1,298 participants. Participants were randomly assigned to receive assistance from an LLM (GPT-4o, Llama 3, Command R+) or a source of their choice (control). Tested alone, LLMs complete the scenarios…
Emerging technology, when first being presented to the public-at-large, is bound to get people fearful and protective of the status quo. Such is the current case with AI and its practical application in multiple industries, particularly in the space of visual media arts, but rather than turn away, renowned filmmaker and technological innovator James Cameron is choosing to lean in. Last year, he joined the board of the generative AI company Stability AI and during a recent interview on the “Boz to the Future” podcast, he explained how the tech’s ability to shorten VFX workflow could truly be a game-changer…
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…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese e-commerce and web giant Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially launched a new series of open source AI large language multimodal models known as Qwen3 that appear to be among the state-of-the-art for open models, and approach performance of proprietary models from the likes of OpenAI and Google. The Qwen3 series features two “mixture-of-experts” models and six dense models for a total of eight (!) new models. The “mixture-of-experts” approach involves having several different specialty model types combined into one, with…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese e-commerce and web giant Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially launched a new series of open source AI large language multimodal models known as Qwen3 that appear to be among the state-of-the-art for open models, and approach performance of proprietary models from the likes of OpenAI and Google. The Qwen3 series features two “mixture-of-experts” models and six dense models for a total of eight (!) new models. The “mixture-of-experts” approach involves having several different specialty model types combined into one, with…
China’s tech champion aims to fill gaps left by US sanctions Huawei is preparing to test its latest AI chip, the Ascend 910D, hoping it can challenge higher-end products from Nvidia as US restrictions batter the Chinese semiconductor industry. According to the Wall Street Journal Huawei has begun approaching Chinese tech firms to test the new chip’s technical feasibility. The Shenzhen giant expects the first sample batches by late May. While the development is still early, it signals a fresh effort to counter Washington’s moves to choke China’s access to advanced chip-making kit. Huawei hopes the Ascend 910D will outperform Nvidia’s…
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…