Author: Advanced AI Editor

I don’t care who you are, where you’re fromWhat you did, As long as you love me! — Backstreet Boys Wow! They really love AI in China! Across regions, across pockets!  So, Tencent, from China, has announced its latest Hunyuan-T1—the first Mamba-powered ultra-large model! Well, well, well! Seems the Chinese are in love with AI! First, came DeepSeek, then Baidu ERNIE 4.5, and now, Tencent with Hunyuan-T1, with Google Gemma, in-between, along with OpenAI’s O-series models. That’s really a lot of development done within a space of very little time! Didn’t I remark earlier that AI models will come up thick…

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…

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…

ChatGPT went viral in late 2022, changing the tech world. Generative AI became the top priority for every tech company, and that’s how we ended up with “smart” fridges with built-in AI. Artificial intelligence is being built into everything, sometimes for the hype alone, with products like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini having come a long way since late 2022.As soon as it became clear that genAI would reshape technology, likely leading to advanced AI systems that can do everything humans can do but better and faster, we started seeing worries that AI would negatively impact society and doom scenarios where…

Quick Take Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. Around 300 Google DeepMind employees in the UK plan to unionise.Workers aim to join the Communication Workers Union, citing ethical concerns.Workers aren’t okay with AI being used in conflicts such as Gaza. Around 300 Google DeepMind staffers in the UK are planning to unionise to challenge the tech giant’s decision to sell its artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to defence groups with purported ties to the Israeli government, according to a report in the Financial Times.The workers are seeking to join the Communication Workers Union in the coming weeks. Some of the employees…

What if you could design systems that think, adapt, and act on their own—handling everything from scheduling meetings to analyzing complex datasets—all without constant human oversight? Welcome to the world of AI agents, where the boundaries of automation and intelligence are being redefined. OpenAI’s AI Agents Course 2025 which takes a good seven hours to complete, promises to be a fantastic option, offering a structured pathway to mastering these autonomous systems. As industries increasingly rely on AI to streamline workflows and solve intricate challenges, the demand for skilled developers who can build, deploy, and optimize these agents has never been…

It’s interesting to see that even after Tesla successfully changed over Gigafactory Shanghai to the new Model Y, reports still emerged earlier this month suggesting that the demand for the revamped, all-electric crossover may already be over. Videos from China, as well as the trend in Tesla’s new vehicle registrations, suggest that the demand for the new Model Y in the country is alive and well.  Why Did Registrations Drop In April? Arguments that the new Model Y was already running out of steam in China are partly based on the vehicle’s sudden drop in registrations in April. This, as…

[Submitted on 30 Oct 2024 (v1), last revised 25 Apr 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Contrastive Learning and Adversarial Disentanglement for Task-Oriented Semantic Communications, by Omar Erak and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Task-oriented semantic communication systems have emerged as a promising approach to achieving efficient and intelligent data transmission, where only information relevant to a specific task is communicated. However, existing methods struggle to fully disentangle task-relevant and task-irrelevant information, leading to privacy concerns and subpar performance. To address this, we propose an information-bottleneck method, named CLAD (contrastive learning and adversarial…