Author: Advanced AI Editor
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…
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…
Chinese internet companies, including ByteDance, Alibaba Group Holding BABA, and Tencent Holding TCEHY, hoarded billions of dollars worth of Nvidia Corp NVDA H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips as the U.S. semiconductor sanctions kicked in. Nvidia tailor-made the H20 chips to comply with U.S. semiconductor sanctions. However, the Chinese companies started hoarding them in 2024, fearing potential shipment restrictions, Nikkei Asia reported on Wednesday. Also Read: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Meets Japanese PM To Discuss AI’s Growing Energy Needs They aimed to snap up 1 million H20s before the latest U.S. semiconductor sanctions. The companies reportedly placed over $16 billion in orders…
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 soon as ChatGPT became widely available, it stunned the world with its ability to answer questions in natural language almost immediately. It still does that today, and its performance has improved significantly as well.However, users quickly discovered that chatbots like ChatGPT do not always provide accurate information. They convincingly hallucinate. That’s why I’ve been warning you about AI hallucinations since the early days of ChatGPT and routinely reminding you to ask for sources and check the facts the chatbot spews. ChatGPT and its rivals have come a long way since then. OpenAI and other AI firms will give you…
[Submitted on 5 Mar 2025 (v1), last revised 22 Apr 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled A Conceptual Model for Attributions in Event-Centric Knowledge Graphs, by Florian Pl\”otzky and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The use of narratives as a means of fusing information from knowledge graphs (KGs) into a coherent line of argumentation has been the subject of recent investigation. Narratives are especially useful in event-centric knowledge graphs in that they provide a means to connect different real-world events and categorize them by well-known narrations. However, specifically for controversial events, a problem…
Researchers from Stanford University early today published the latest edition of their annual AI Index Report, detailing the growing influence of artificial intelligence technologies on our society and the global economy. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, has been publishing its annual reports on the state of the AI industry since 2017. This year’s edition, the eighth, is the “most comprehensive” report to date, spanning more than 430 pages. The authors say it’s arriving at a critical juncture as the influence of AI across society rapidly accelerates with the emergence of increasingly capable and sophisticated…