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2 days ago · OpenAI in Talks to for New Funding at Up to $300 Billion Value Shirin Ghaffary, Rachel Metz, and Kate Clark | Bloomberg "The ChatGPT maker is in discussions to raise funds at a pre-money valuation of $260 billion, said one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private information.

Dec 28, 2024 · This year, readers were again fascinated by stories about artificial intelligence. One algorithm learned to make short, playable video games from video footage; another cloned real people's personalities; and yet another took on the role of your future self—ready and willing to impart wisdom.

Jan 25, 2025 · Open-Source DeepSeek-R1 Uses Pure Reinforcement Learning to Match OpenAI o1—at 95% Less Cost Shubham Sharma | VentureBeat "Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding, and reasoning tasks.

Nov 9, 2024 · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Why AI Could Eat Quantum Computing’s Lunch Edd Gent | MIT Technology Review "The scale and complexity of quantum systems that can be simulated using AI is advancing rapidly, says Giuseppe Carleo, a professor of computational physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). ...

Dec 21, 2024 · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills Will Knight | Wired "The o3 model scores much higher on several measures than its predecessor, OpenAI says, including ones that measure complex coding-related skills and advanced math and science competency.

Nov 23, 2024 · From AI replicating people's personalities to the new fastest supercomputer, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

Sep 28, 2024 · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. A Tiny New Open-Source AI Model Performs as Well as Powerful Big Ones Melissa Heikkilä archive page | MIT Technology Review "[The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)] claims that its biggest Molmo model, which has 72 billion parameters, outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which is estimated to have over a trillion parameters, in tests that measure things like ...

Nov 2, 2024 · From AI taking over coding at Google to an off-the-shelf fusion reactor, check out this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.

Oct 5, 2024 · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. MIT Spinoff Liquid Debuts Non-Transformer AI Models and They’re Already State-of-the-Art Carl Franzen | VentureBeat "Unlike most others of the current generative AI wave, these models are not based around the transformer architecture outlined in the seminal 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need.'