Author: Advanced AI Editor

Microsoft released its 2025 Annual Work Trend Index this week. The report claims this is the year companies will move beyond AI experiments and rebuild their core operations around AI. Microsoft also introduced several new terms that it believes will shape the future of the workplace. Let’s look at what Microsoft wants to add to your work vocabulary. Remember, Microsoft has invested heavily in AI, so they have good reasons to make these concepts seem normal. The Microsoft AI Dictionary 1. The “Frontier Firm” Microsoft says “Frontier Firms” are organizations built around on-demand AI, human-agent teams, and employees who act…

If you are interested in building your very own local deep research AI assistant, you might be interested in Google’s Gemma 3 AI models. They represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, offering a compact yet robust solution tailored for local deployment. Derived from the larger Gemini series, these models combine high performance with a strong emphasis on privacy and accessibility. Featuring multimodal capabilities, support for 140 languages, and the ability to generate structured outputs, Gemma 3 is engineered to meet diverse AI research assistant and productivity demands. These models are open source and optimized for local use, allowing you…

Nvidia is getting into the artificial intelligence agents game with the release of a software platform that helps businesses build their own autonomous bots. The platform, called NeMo microservices, is available for all customers to use to build their “AI teammates,” the chip maker said Wednesday. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it has developed a better way of building AI agents that relies on open-source AI models like those provided by Meta Platforms and the startup Mistral AI. Nvidia is betting on open-source, or open-weight, AI technologies because they tend to offer businesses more flexibility and control than proprietary…

Until recently few outside southern Guangdong had heard of Mililing, a quiet rural village with fewer than 700 residents, according to The Times of India.That changed earlier this year when hundreds of visitors began arriving daily to see the birthplace of Liang, the 40-year-old founder and CEO of DeepSeek, whose breakthroughs in AI have made him both a national icon and a global tech titan.The once-sleepy village has since transformed. Locals now run drink and souvenir stalls near Liang’s childhood home. “Some visitors take away piles of soil, stones or pieces of leaves,” a resident told the South China Morning…

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…

Multi-modal models with smart guardrailing at the edge enable more seamless and safer in-car interactions, unlocking powerful capabilities that go far beyond pure infotainment SHANGHAI and BURLINGTON, Mass., April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Just ahead of Auto Shanghai 2025, Cerence Inc. (NASDAQ: CRNC) (“Cerence AI”), a global leader pioneering conversational AI-powered user experiences, today announced a new partnership with MediaTek and expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver the next generation of CaLLM™ Edge, its embedded small language model (SLM) purpose-built for automotive user experiences. With new multi-modal capabilities powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, CaLLM Edge will now make…

A high-profile legal case has unearthed a trove of internal Meta communications, and one particular document has caught the eye of some AI researchers.This reveals new insights into how models are built and could influence who gets to share in the spoils of this new technology.Buried in these court filings is a description of how Meta researchers used a process called ablation to identify which data helped improve the company’s Llama AI models.Ablation is a medical technique that purposely destroys tissue to improve things like brain function. In AI, it involves removing parts of a system to study how those…

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…

DeepMind, Google’s AI-focused division, has been the source of many advanced developments. These artificial intelligence technologies have reached most of the company’s products. However, there are projects in development that are still awaiting widespread implementation. Gemini is one of the services that could receive some major improvements soon. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, revealed more details about the path they are following in the field of AI in an interview. 60 Minutes conducted the interview with the CEO of Google DeepMind, revealing more about the company’s vision for AI. Gemini AI could get major memory improvements, Google DeepMind CEO…

As the federal government and Google work through potential remedies for the company’s illegal monopoly over online search, OpenAI is interested in purchasing the Chrome browser, should the court order it be sold off to loosen Google’s grip on the market. According to Bloomberg, Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of product for ChatGPT, signaled the AI company’s interest in the browser while on the stand testifying at the behest of the Department of Justice. To be fair, OpenAI’s interest in Chrome is not unique. Turley stated “many other parties” would also want to buy the browser should it become available—and understandably…