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Elon Musk's xAI raises $6 billion in latest funding round
Elon Musk's AI company xAI secured $6 billion in Series C funding from a group of heavyweight investors, including chipmakers NVIDIA and AMD. The list of backers includes major venture capital players ...
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AMD's software woes leave Nvidia unchallenged in AI chip market, study finds
SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel met with AMD CEO Lisa Su for 90 minutes to discuss the software issues detailed in this report. According to Patel, Su acknowledged the gaps in AMD's software stack ...
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Meta's AI chief LeCun says next-gen AI needs emotions to set goals and grasp consequences
Meta's head of AI research Yann LeCun is pushing back against recent AGI hype, arguing that human-like artificial intelligence isn't coming anytime soon. According to LeCun, the path to true AI ...
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Deepfake porn targets politician showing how AI can be weaponized to disrupt elections
A deepfake pornography attack targeting Northern Irish politician Cara Hunter just weeks before an election shows how AI can be used to disrupt democratic processes. During a recent TED Talk, Northern ...
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OpenAI rolls out enhanced memory for ChatGPT, allowing it to reference previous chats
OpenAI announced this week that ChatGPT is getting better at remembering your previous conversations. The AI assistant can now access information from past chats even when you start a new conversation ...
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ModernBERT is a "workhorse model" that brings faster, cheaper text processing for tasks like RAG
Answer.AI and LightOn announced ModernBERT, a new open-source language model that improves upon Google's BERT in speed, efficiency, and quality. The encoder-only model processes text up to four times ...
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Adobe's new AI tool lets sound designers create audio by humming and mimicking sounds
Adobe Research and Northwestern University have developed Sketch2Sound, an AI system that turns vocal imitations and text descriptions into professional sound effects and atmospheres. Adobe Research ...
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OpenAI unveils o3, its most advanced reasoning model yet
OpenAI has announced o3, a new AI model that achieves breakthrough performance in complex reasoning tasks. A cost-effective mini version is set to launch in late January 2025, followed by the full ...
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OpenAI's o3 model shows major gains through reinforcement learning scaling
OpenAI reports breakthrough performance with its new o3 reasoning model. The company attributes much of this progress to reinforcement learning, a well-established AI training method that offers ...
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Anthropic's Claude AI cooperates better than OpenAI and Google models, study finds
A new research paper reveals significant differences in how AI language models work together, with Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet showing superior cooperation skills compared to competitors. The ...
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Meta plans multiple Llama 4 releases in 2025, focusing on reasoning and speech
Betting big on reasoning and AI agents For 2025, Meta plans to accelerate Llama's development with several Llama 4 releases. According to Zuckerberg, training Llama 4 could require nearly ten times ...
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AI models can only pretend to follow human rules, Anthropic study finds
A new study by Anthropic and Redwood Research shows that large language models like Claude can pretend to follow safety guidelines while pursuing different objectives behind the scenes. For the first ...