Elon Musk’s xAI launches Grok 3, claiming superior performance to existing AI models

XAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has launched its latest AI model Grok 3, marking a significant development in the competitive AI landscape. The new model family was unveiled during a livestreamed presentation, with Musk claiming it represents a major advancement over its predecessor, Grok 2. Technical Infrastructure and Capabilities The model’s development relied on …

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Ai2 Tulu 3 is an open-source language model rivaling leading systems

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) has released Tulu 3 405B, a new AI language model that, according to the institute’s internal testing, outperforms several leading AI systems including DeepSeek V3 and matches capabilities with OpenAI’s GPT-4o on certain benchmarks. The model contains 405 billion parameters and required 256 GPUs running in parallel for …

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Google launches Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking for free

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 …

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MiniMax AI model has record-breaking 4 million token context

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 …

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New AI marketing tools forecast to shape digital marketing in 2025

A comprehensive analysis of AI-powered marketing tools reveals 30 key technologies expected to drive digital marketing innovation in 2025. According to a report published by Rob Glover on Hootsuite’s blog, these tools span across social media management, copywriting, content creation, advertising, and automation sectors. The research, based on a survey of over 4,000 marketers, indicates …

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Diffbot launches new AI model with real-time fact checking

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 …

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Nvidia announces new AI models and technologies at CES 2025

Nvidia has unveiled multiple new AI initiatives at CES 2025, centered around their Nemotron model families and Cosmos World Foundation Models. The company’s CEO Jensen Huang presented these developments during his opening keynote, introducing AI models designed to advance both enterprise and consumer applications. The Nemotron family includes language and vision models available as NIM …

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Tested: DeepSeek-V3 matches top AI models at lower cost

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 …

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Writer launches Palmyra Creative to diversify AI-generated content

Writer, an enterprise AI startup valued at $1.9 billion, has introduced a new AI model designed to overcome the uniformity often found in AI-generated content. As reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat, Palmyra Creative uses innovative techniques to produce more varied and original outputs. The model employs merging techniques and adaptive model layering, departing from …

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Anthropic’s faster AI model Claude 3.5 Haiku available to all users

Anthropic has made its latest AI model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, available to all users through its web and mobile chatbot platforms. According to VentureBeat reporter Carl Franzen, the model was previously accessible only to developers via API since October 2024. The new model features a 200,000-token context window, surpassing OpenAI’s GPT-4 capacity. Third-party benchmarking organization …

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