Author: Advanced AI Editor

As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI) engineering. Three years on, experts are harder to impress. To really stand out in the crowded marketplace, an AI lab needs not just to build a high-quality model, but to build it cheaply. In December a Chinese firm, DeepSeek, earned itself headlines for cutting the dollar cost of training a frontier model down from $61.6m (the cost of Llama 3.1, an LLM produced by Meta, a technology company) to just $6m. In a preprint posted online in February, researchers…

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…

Silver Lining: Nvidia has been significantly impacted by the tariffs introduced by Donald Trump on April 2. The company sources nearly all of its GPU products from TSMC and is likely to face price increases in the near future. However, according to market analysts, data center servers for AI workloads could partially avoid the new tariffs. The technology industry is still grappling with the aftermath of the new economic policy imposed by the US administration on its traditional partners and competitors. Meanwhile, analysts are trying to determine whether some of the most popular tech stocks could show resilience in the…

In a blog post last July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “selling access” to Meta’s openly available Llama AI models “isn’t [Meta’s] business model.” Yet Meta does make at least some money from Llama through revenue-sharing agreements, according to a newly unredacted court filing. The filing, submitted by attorneys for the plaintiffs in the copyright lawsuit Kadrey v. Meta, in which Meta stands accused of training its Llama models on hundreds of terabytes of pirated e-books, reveals that Meta “shares a percentage of the revenue” that companies hosting its Llama models generate from users of those models. The filing…

n8n has announced the integration of native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), introducing MCP server and client nodes into its workflow automation platform. This development allows for seamless communication between large language models (LLMs) and external systems, empowering users to create advanced, AI-driven workflows. Developed by Anthropic, MCP is gaining recognition as a potential standard for AI interoperability. However, its necessity compared to established protocols like REST APIs continues to be a subject of industry debate. But what exactly is MCP, and why should you care? Developed by Anthropic, the creators of Claude AI, MCP is designed to…

AI is already transforming fields like graphic design, movie making, and computer programming, but it might soon upturn the hard sciences as well. David Silver, a prominent researcher at Google Deepmind and the lead researcher at AlphaGo, has offered some compelling insights into the future of mathematics and the role of artificial intelligence. He hints at a future where AI mathematicians not only solve some of the world’s most challenging mathematical puzzles but fundamentally reshape the field itself. “The Clay Mathematics Institute, in the year 2000, offered a million-dollar prize for seven different mathematical problems,” Silver was asked in an…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lost sleep over OpenAI’s new Memory feature (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via … More Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images OpenAI ‘s Memory Mirrors Blockchain: A Revolution in Trust & Relationships I watched as a colleague discovered OpenAI’s Memory feature for the first time. “This changes everything,” she said, after ChatGPT referenced a project detail from three conversations ago without prompting. Tatyana Kanzaveli, Chief executive officer at Open Health Network, wrote on Facebook, “Then I asked what data has been used and for what time frame: I analyzed your entire conversation history with me—including over 150 distinct…

Crosswalk buttons in at least three California cities appear to have been hacked this weekend to give them the seemingly AI-generated voices of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In videos posted online, the apparent voice of Musk begs listeners to be his friend, or that of Zuckerberg brags about “undermining democracy” and “cooking our grandparents’ brains with AI slop.”A Palo Alto, California city spokesperson told Palo Alto Online that city employees “determined that 12 downtown intersections were impacted,” and have disabled the crosswalks’ voice features pending repairs. The signals otherwise work as they should, they told…

Recent data has shown that Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 remained the top-selling electric vehicle (EV) models in the U.S. in the first quarter, despite a decline in overall sales in the market. As detailed in the latest Kelley Blue Book EV sales report, shared by Cox Automotive on Thursday, Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 outsold the next several models combined during the first quarter, while the Cybertruck was the tenth best-selling EV overall. Tesla sold 64,051 Model Y units, representing a 33.8 percent drop year over year, along with selling 52,520 Model 3 units, marking a 70.3…

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…