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 …
I am not a fan of having articles written by AI alone. In my experience, it still works much better to think of these services as tools and assistants. In that moment, they don’t do the work for you. Instead, they help you do certain tasks faster and more efficiently – including writing. Here’s an …
According to Ben Hylak’s detailed analysis, published as a guest post, OpenAI’s o1 model requires a fundamentally different approach compared to traditional chat models. Hylak, who initially criticized the model but later became a regular user, explains that o1 functions best as a “report generator” rather than a conversational AI. The key to successful o1 …
We are in the third year of the generative AI boom. While some are predicting a stall for the industry as a whole, I personally expect 2025 to be a year of interesting, meaningful and useful advances. Generative AI is here to stay. The advances to come may not always look as exciting as those …
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia announced Project Digits, a compact desktop AI supercomputer aimed at researchers, data scientists, and students. The device, scheduled for release in May 2025 at a price point of $3,000, represents the company’s effort to bring powerful AI computing capabilities to individual desks. At the core of Project Digits …
The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) in Hamburg, Germany, was the latest installment of the annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia organised by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and volunteers. From the long list of talks, I chose six I found especially relevant for readers of Smart Content Report and myself. I used …
OpenAI’s next major project, GPT-5 (code-named Orion), is experiencing substantial setbacks and escalating costs, according to a Wall Street Journal report by Deepa Seetharaman. The project, which has been in development for over 18 months, has encountered multiple challenges during training runs, each costing approximately half a billion dollars in computing expenses alone. The company’s …
OpenAI has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model called o3, which the company says demonstrates advanced reasoning capabilities compared to its predecessors. The model, set to launch in early 2025, is part of a new family that includes both o3 and a smaller version called o3-mini. The model’s name skips “o2” due to trademark considerations …
Google DeepMind has announced Veo 2, its latest AI video generation model, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s Sora. The new model is currently available through Google Labs’ VideoFX platform on a waitlist basis, with users required to apply through a Google Form for access. According to Google, Veo 2 can generate videos …
Google has announced Gemini 2.0, its latest artificial intelligence model that introduces significant advances in multimodal capabilities and autonomous agent features. The experimental version, Gemini 2.0 Flash, is being released first to developers and trusted testers through Google’s AI platforms. According to Google, the new model can generate text, images, and multilingual audio while operating …