Author: Advanced AI Editor

DeepSeek’s moment in the spotlight appears to be over, at least for now, as talk of ChatGPT’s image-generation abilities has dominated the AI conversations. Add all the new OpenAI announcements and Google’s various Gemini upgrades, like the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and there’s almost no room left for DeepSeek.But the breakthrough AI chatbot that shocked the US a few months ago is still available to anyone looking to try it. DeepSeek is available on the web and on mobile and, due to its open-source nature, can be installed on any computer. That’s assuming you can use DeepSeek. Some US governmental…

Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE BABA) co-founder Jack Ma appeared at Alibaba Cloud’s campus in Hangzhou on Thursday to celebrate its 15th anniversary, SCMP reports. On Wednesday, Alibaba’s cloud unit showcased its Blossom project, which aims to accelerate AI adoption by providing its clients with infrastructure, AI models, data, and other services. The company upgraded global AI tools with Qwen-Max, a new reasoning model, and $1/year developer kits. Also Read: China’s DeepSeek Teams Up With Tsinghua University To Raise AI Bar, Boost Reasoning Capabilities Alibaba committed at least 380 billion yuan ($52 billion) in cloud computing and AI infrastructure over the…

NVIDIA’s Wade Vinson during his keynote at Data Center World 2025. Image: Drew Robb/TechnologyAdvice NVIDIA kicked off the Data Center World 2025 event this week in Washington, D.C., with a bold vision for the future of AI infrastructure. In his keynote, Wade Vinson, NVIDIA’s chief data center engineer, introduced the concept of AI-scale data centers; these massive, energy-efficient facilities would meet the soaring demand of accelerated computing. NVIDIA envisions sprawling “AI factories” powered by Blackwell GPUs and DGX SuperPODs, supported by advanced cooling and power systems by Vertiv and Schneider Electric. “There is no doubt that AI factories are a…

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…

Image: Anthropic Anthropic has introduced a new Research function in its Claude artificial intelligence model, enabling the system to autonomously perform multi-step investigations. Claude can deliver a well-reasoned response with verifiable citations in just minutes, aiming to strike a “balance of speed and quality.” The AI startup says Claude responds to prompts “agentically,” independently working out what information it needs to grab next to build the correct response. It “explores different angles of your question automatically and works through open questions systematically,” Anthropic said in its press release. The Research feature is currently in early beta and can be accessed…

“We’ve been really pushing on ‘thinking,’” says Jack Rae, a principal research scientist at DeepMind. Such models, which are built to work through problems logically and spend more time arriving at an answer, rose to prominence earlier this year with the launch of the DeepSeek R1 model. They’re attractive to AI companies because they can make an existing model better by training it to approach a problem pragmatically. That way, the companies can avoid having to build a new model from scratch.  When the AI model dedicates more time (and energy) to a query, it costs more to run. Leaderboards…

Google Versus OpenAI: The AI Fight For StudentsNurPhoto via Getty Images As finals season intensifies across campuses nationwide, students are receiving a timely boost from two tech giants, OpenAI and Google. Both have unveiled generous AI offerings to students for free. These initiatives aren’t just providing tools. They’re potentially fueling a redefined landscape in higher education. Positioning artificial intelligence as an essential part of student life. Immediate Impact Versus Long-Term Partnership? Two weeks ago, OpenAI stepped forward with a powerful short-term offer, granting U.S. and Canadian college students free access to ChatGPT Plus through the end of May 2025. This…

arXiv:2504.11671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve as human-like decision-making agents in social science and applied settings. These LLM-agents are typically assigned human-like characters and placed in real-life contexts. However, how these characters and contexts shape an LLM’s behavior remains underexplored. This study proposes and tests methods for probing, quantifying, and modifying an LLM’s internal representations in a Dictator Game — a classic behavioral experiment on fairness and prosocial behavior. We extract “vectors of variable variations” (e.g., “male” to “female”) from the LLM’s internal state. Manipulating these vectors during the model’s inference can substantially alter how…

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…

Unpacking Q4 Earnings: IBM (NYSE:IBM) In The Context Of Other IT Services & Consulting Stocks The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how IBM (NYSE:IBM) and the rest of the it services & consulting stocks fared in Q4. IT Services & Consulting companies stand to benefit from increasing enterprise demand for digital transformation, AI-driven automation, and cybersecurity resilience. Many enterprises can’t attack these topics alone and need IT services and consulting on everything from technical advice to…