India is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence, with the government pushing an ambitious plan to develop homegrown AI models within the next ten months. The Modi administration has greenlit 18 proposals, offering support in the form of computing power, data, and funding to drive AI solutions in areas like agriculture and climate change….
Tech giant Microsoft has added DeepSeek R1 to the model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, expanding its collection of over 1,800 AI models. In a blog post, Microsoft said that this new addition comes as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to provide a wide variety of AI solutions, including frontier, open-source, industry-specific,…
In the wake of a breakthrough by Chinese upstart DeepSeek in affordable AI computing, executives at Microsoft and Meta have defended their significant investments in AI infrastructure, despite growing concerns over mounting costs and investor impatience. DeepSeek, a rising player in the AI space, has stunned the tech industry with claims that its models can…
Mr Trump’s hosting the next day of the launch of “the largest AI infrastructure project in history” shows he grasps the potential. But so does the rest of the world—and most of all, China. Even as Mr Trump was giving his inaugural oration, a Chinese firm released the latest impressive large language model (LLM). Suddenly,…
OpenAI plans to release two highly-anticipated models. Orion, potentially the new GPT-5 model, is expected to be an advanced large language model (LLM), while Strawberry aims to enhance AI reasoning and problem-solving, particularly in mastering math. Why are these projects important? Project Strawberry (earlier dubbed Q*, or Q-Star) is reportedly a secret OpenAI initiative to…
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL 9000, the murderous computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey” is one of many examples in science fiction of an artificial intelligence (AI) that outwits its human creators with deadly consequences. Recent progress in AI, notably the release of ChatGPT, has pushed the question of “existential…
History is repeating itself, but this time around, it’s about the total cost of ownership (TCO), reliability, accountability, privacy, and security of open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models. Prominent open-source AI models include Meta’s Llama, Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, Eleuther AI’s Pythia suite of large language models (LLMs) and its smaller GPT-NeoX language model, Hugging Face’s…
Brains learn by being subtly rewired: some connections between neurons, known as synapses, are strengthened, while others must be weakened. But because the brain has billions of neurons, of which millions could be involved in any single task, scientists have puzzled over how it knows which synapses to tweak and by how much. Dr Hinton…
ANYONE CAN spot a tipping point after it’s been crossed. Also known as critical transitions, such mathematical cliff-edges influence everything from the behaviour of financial markets and the spread of disease to the extinction of species. The financial crisis of 2007-09 is often described as one. So is the moment that covid-19 went global. The…
