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Prompt caching, now generally available on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, along with Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova Pro models, lowers response latency by up to 85% and reduces costs up to 90% by caching frequently used prompts across multiple API calls. With prompt caching, you can mark the specific contiguous portions of your prompts to be cached (known as a prompt prefix). When a request is made with the specified prompt prefix, the model processes the input and caches the internal state associated with the prefix. On subsequent requests with a matching…

IBL News | New York Stability AI released in research preview mode this week Stable Virtual Camera, a model that transforms 2D images into immersive 3D scenes with realistic depth and perspective. With its tool, Stability is adding generative AI to virtual cameras, often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real-time. The model is available for research use under a noncommercial license. It can be downloaded on Hugging Face, and the code is accessible on GitHub. The full research paper is here. “We invite the research community to explore its capabilities and contribute to…

First came DeepSeek, from China, close to the Chinese New Year, in January 2025. It was a fact that DeepSeek has been developed by spending just $5.6 million, and that came as a slap across the face for the so-called ‘Mughuls’ of the global tech industry. Its R1 is able to match the most powerful AI models, such as those from ChatGPT, Meta, and Google! Well, guess what! Google has now come up with Gemma 3! Interestingly. Gemma 3 27B ranks quite highly on a chart that ranks AI models. Gemma 3 is said to be requiring only a single…

Snapchat is introducing Sponsored AI Lenses, a new ad format that lets brands engage with consumers in an immersive way. While Snapchat has offered brands the opportunity to pay for sponsored lenses on the platform for years, now they can leverage AI-generated experiences powered by Snap’s proprietary generative AI technology. With these interactive lenses, brands can reach and engage users in a more fun and interactive way when compared to traditional ads, as they allow users to take selfies to see themselves transported into different AI-generated scenes. When users take a selfie for an AI Lens, Snap analyzes their face…

With Google’s introduction of its vision match feature, users can now describe a product they’re looking for, and AI will generate suggestions similar to that item.  The real kicker is that the product generated likely doesn’t exist.  The AI will create something that you want, show you the product, and then try to match the AI product with items from the real world. It sounds like a streamlined, user-friendly shopping experience that could revolutionize online shopping yet again.  But does it actually enhance our shopping journey?  Are these AI-generated results truly more effective than the product results we get from…

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…

China has rapidly narrowed the gap with the US in producing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) models, according to research published by Stanford University in California.When measured using major AI evaluating benchmarks, the performance difference of Chinese models compared with their US counterparts shrank from double digits in 2023 to near parity last year, according to the latest Artificial Intelligence Index report from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred AI.For example, the performance gap between Chinese and US models in MMLU, or measuring massive multitask language understanding, narrowed from 17.5 points two years ago to 0.3 by the end of 2024, underscoring…

Alibaba Cloud is broadening its international artificial intelligence offerings with enhanced tools as the company seeks to grow its global customer base, reports Bloomberg,Per the report, the cloud division’s expansion includes new platform-as-a-service options and advanced proprietary large language models, such as Qwen-Max and the QwQ-Plus reasoning model, which shares similarities with DeepSeek. The company is delivering these services through its Singapore availability zones, signalling its intent to attract AI users and developers globally.The Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant has maintained a swift pace of AI product launches since DeepSeek’s January introduction. Its offerings include developer-focused business intelligence tools…

SUZHOU, China, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On 26 March, Suzhou Pudu Co-Intelligence Technology Company, a joint venture between Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Baidu Group, was launched as China’s first AI-focused joint venture co-founded by Baidu and a university. AI+education: Redefining learning Through AI-driven innovation, Pudu Co-Intelligence seeks to transform the whole education value chain, empower industrial evolution and cultivate localised service ecosystems. The company will soon launch the Pudu Co-Intelligence AI Forum, bringing together Baidu’s chief scientists, XJTLU’s AI researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to share their thinking on cutting-edge technologies, AI research, interpretation of relevant policies, and personal experience…

This Verizon showcase suggests that after years of limited tangible, scalable implementations, private 5G is finally moving from pilot to production As broadcasters face mounting pressure to manage dozens of camera feeds, navigate spotty connectivity and capture every critical moment during live events, a new solution from Verizon Business and NVIDIA is turning heads at NAB Show 2025. The telco debuted a portable private 5G network framework, built in close collaboration with NVIDIA, that it said leveraged AI and high-performance connectivity to reimagine live broadcast workflows. At the heart of this mobile, environmentally controlled setup is NVIDIA accelerated computing, including…