DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company, has gained significant attention in the tech industry with the release of its DeepSeek-R1 language model. The model, developed by hedge fund manager Liang Wenfeng’s team, reportedly matches the performance of OpenAI’s leading model while being trained at a fraction of the cost – approximately $5.6 million using 2,048 … Read more
Meta is set to dramatically increase its AI infrastructure spending to between $60 billion and $65 billion, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. As reported by Meghan Bobrowsky in The Wall Street Journal, this represents a roughly 70% increase over 2024 expenditure levels. The announcement comes shortly after competing tech companies unveiled the $500 billion Stargate … Read more
A comprehensive analysis published by software developer and tech blogger Dustin Ewers argues that artificial intelligence will transform rather than eliminate software development jobs. In his detailed blog post, Ewers challenges recent claims about AI threatening the software industry’s future, presenting economic principles and practical considerations to support his position. The author points to several … Read more
Hugging Face has released two new AI models designed for processing images, videos, and text on devices with limited resources. As Kyle Wiggers reports for TechCrunch, the models called SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M require less than 1GB of RAM to operate. The models, containing 256 million and 500 million parameters respectively, can describe images, analyze video … Read more
ByteDance has developed UI-TARS, a new AI system that can autonomously control computers and mobile devices to perform complex tasks. According to research published on Arxiv and reported by Taryn Plumb for VentureBeat, the system outperforms existing AI models like GPT-4o and Claude across multiple benchmarks. UI-TARS uses both 7B and 72B parameter versions and … Read more
Google has released Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, a new AI model that can process up to one million tokens of text while showing its reasoning process. According to Michael Nuñez at VentureBeat, the model is available for free through Google AI Studio under the experimental designation “Exp-01-21.” The system achieved a 73.3% score on the … Read more
Scale AI, a company valued at $13.8 billion, is confronting three lawsuits within roughly a month over its treatment of workers. According to Charles Rollet’s report in TechCrunch, the latest class action lawsuit, filed on January 17 in California, involves six workers who claim they suffered psychological trauma from reviewing disturbing content without adequate support. … Read more
OpenAI’s ChatGPT experienced a significant service disruption this morning, affecting both the web interface and API access. According to Kyle Wiggers from TechCrunch, the company acknowledged the problem at 5:12 a.m. Pacific time on their status page. OpenAI identified the root cause within an hour and implemented a fix by 7:09 a.m. The AI chatbot … Read more
A new comprehensive book titled “Foundations of Large Language Models” has been released for free access on arxiv.org, offering readers a structured introduction to LLM technology. The book covers essential concepts and techniques across four chapters, focusing on the fundamental aspects rather than cutting-edge developments. The authors present the material as learning notes, making complex … Read more
Consumer spending on AI apps hit $1.1 billion in 2024, marking a 200% increase from the previous year. According to a “State of Mobile” report by Sensor Tower, as reported by Sarah Perez for TechCrunch, users spent approximately 7.7 billion hours using AI applications. The surge was led by apps like ChatGPT, which reached 50 … Read more