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 …
Tencent has launched Hunyuan3D 2.0, an artificial intelligence system that generates detailed 3D models from single images or text descriptions. As Michael Nuñez reports, the system can complete tasks in seconds that typically take artists days or weeks. The technology combines two main components: Hunyuan3D-DiT for basic shapes and Hunyuan3D-Paint for surface details. According to …
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has announced the release of its new reasoning-focused language models DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1, along with six smaller distilled versions. The main models, built on DeepSeek’s V3 architecture, feature 671 billion total parameters with 37 billion activated parameters and a context length of 128,000 tokens. According to company statements, DeepSeek-R1 achieves performance …
Singapore-based AI company MiniMax has launched a new open-source language model that can process up to 4 million tokens at once, doubling the previous record. According to Carl Franzen’s report in VentureBeat, the MiniMax-01 series includes both text and visual capabilities. The model uses an innovative “Lightning Attention” architecture and mixture of experts framework with …
Diffbot, a Silicon Valley company, has introduced a new AI model that combines AI capabilities with real-time fact verification. As reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat, the system uses graph retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) technology based on Meta’s Llama 3.3. The model connects to Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph, a database containing over one trillion facts that updates …
Microsoft has made its Phi-4 AI model freely available as open-source software on the Hugging Face platform. As reported by Carl Franzen, the model was previously only accessible through Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform. The 14-billion-parameter AI model has demonstrated strong capabilities in mathematical reasoning and language understanding tasks, outperforming larger models in specific benchmarks. …
A detailed analysis published by Sunil Kumar Dash reveals that DeepSeek’s latest AI model achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models while offering significant cost advantages. The model outperforms existing open-source alternatives in mathematics and reasoning tasks, according to extensive benchmark testing. The analysis demonstrates that DeepSeek-V3 surpasses GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in mathematical …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V3, a powerful new AI model that outperforms existing open-source alternatives. According to reporting by Shubham Sharma at VentureBeat, the model features 671 billion parameters but activates only 37 billion for each task through its mixture-of-experts architecture. The model was trained on 14.8 trillion diverse tokens and demonstrates superior …
IBM has released a new version of its open-source large language models, Granite 3.1, featuring significant improvements in performance and capabilities. According to reporting by Sean Michael Kerner for VentureBeat, the new models offer extended context length and integrated hallucination detection. The Granite 8B Instruct model reportedly outperforms similar-sized competitors including Meta Llama 3.1 and …
Microsoft has introduced a new AI model that delivers superior mathematical reasoning capabilities while using significantly less computing power than larger competitors. According to Michael Nuñez’s report in VentureBeat, the 14-billion-parameter Phi-4 model outperforms larger systems like Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5. The model excels particularly in mathematical problem-solving, achieving top scores on standardized math competition …