Author: Advanced AI Editor

Robert Legato – the respected VFX innovator who won Oscars for “Titanic,” “Hugo” and “The Jungle Book” – has joined Stability AI at chief pipeline architect. In doing so, he reteams with James Cameron, an influential board member for the AI firm. Legato is credited with creating the virtual cinematography pipeline for Cameron’s “Avatar,” which went on to surpass the director’s “Titanic” as the highest grossing film of all time with $2.8 billion at the worldwide box office. Legato’s pioneering work has also included “Apollo 13,” “The Aviator,” and the virtual production of “The Lion King.” He’s also held roles…

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…

In today’s industry news roundup: French AI specialist to identify new use cases and develop tailor-made models with shipping and logistics firm; Juniper Research expects telco AI investments to hit $22bn per year by 2029; African telco giant MTN is developing a streaming platform with Synamedia; and much more! Mistral AI, the Paris-based generative AI developer, has agreed a €100m multi-year contract with French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM to identify new AI use cases within the business and develop tailor-made models and agents. Sifted reports that as part of the five-year deal, Mistral AI will embed a dedicated…

DeepSeek is looking to make one of the core components of its AI models more open and accessible to other developers. The Chinese AI startup said it will be sharing technical details about its internal inference engine with the open-source community. Inferencing is one of the many stages of building a large language model (LLM). It involves the trained AI model generating new data, which shows the patterns that the model has learned based on its parameters. DeepSeek said that its internal inference engine and training framework have been instrumental in accelerating the training and deployment of its AI models.…

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…

Rachel Moran, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, spoke to KARE 11 about the Minneapolis Police Department encrypting radio communications, along with potential citizen concerns for the restriction of information. Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. … University of St. Thomas criminal law professor Rachel Moran says police departments across the country are deciding to encrypt their radios due to privacy concerns and she suspects many more departments will soon join this trend. “This is somewhat of…

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, is stepping up its efforts to transform citizen service delivery in India by partnering with State governments through its AI model Llama and the widely used WhatsApp messaging platform. Sandhya Devanathan, Meta’s India head, disclosed the plan, highlighting the company’s aim to make government services more accessible, integrated, and efficient through digital tools, as per a Moneycontrol report. Since January 2025, Meta has been working with the State government of Andhra Pradesh to streamline citizen interactions through a WhatsApp-based chatbot. This bot functions as a single-window access point for a wide range…

J Studios/Getty ImagesFor better or worse, AI tools have steadily become a reality of the academic landscape since ChatGPT launched in late 2022. Anthropic is studying what that looks like in real time. On Tuesday, shortly after launching Claude for Education, the company released data on which tasks university students use its AI chatbot Claude for and which majors use it the most. Also: The work tasks people use Claude AI for most, according to AnthropicUsing Clio, the company’s data analysis tool, to maintain user privacy, Anthropic analyzed 574,740 anonymized conversations between Claude and users at the Free and Pro…

Like finding the best solution in a game of chess or the board game Go, artificial intelligence could help accelerate the discovery of drugs from a decade to potentially weeks, according to Nobel laureate and Cambridge alumnus Sir Demis Hassabis.The chief executive officer and co-founder of Google DeepMind described a new era of ‘digital biology’ – and offered his insights into a future of artificial general intelligence, helping us to understand our place in the universe.Sir Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind. Picture: GoogleSir Demis was speaking at a special event in Cambridge, exploring how AI can accelerate scientific discovery, bringing “digital…

OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch its own social network. To understand why, consider what Elon Musk has done with X in recent years.After overpaying for Twitter, one of the first things he did was shut off bot access to this social network. There were howls of protest. Most explanations focused on the assumption that Musk was gutting Twitter for some sort of evil fun.What he was actually doing was protecting Twitter’s valuable data from being pillaged by other tech companies that wanted to use this information for free to create generative AI models.Instead, Musk’s new AI startup, xAI, got…