India’s antitrust watchdog has formally approved a settlement with Google over allegations that the company employed unfair tactics in the smart TV market. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had earlier found that Google misused its strong position by forcing TV makers to pre-install certain Google apps, including the Play Store, if they wanted access…
Tencent Holdings Ltd. unveiled an upgraded AI reasoning model, the latest bid by China’s most valuable company to compete for leadership in the country’s crowded artificial intelligence field. The Shenzhen-based company rolled out the latest iteration of Hunyuan T1, which debuted last month in its chatbot app Yuanbao. T1 operates similarly to DeepSeek’s R1, the…
DeepSeek has sent Silicon Valley into a panic by proving you could build powerful artificial intelligence (AI) on a shoestring budget. In some respects, it was too good to be true. Recent testing has shown that DeepSeek’s AI models are more vulnerable to manipulation than those of its more expensive competitors from Silicon Valley. That…
DeepSeek’s moment of global glory is a double-edged sword, and it couldn’t have come at a more geopolitically fraught time. The upstart grabbed global attention with its latest models, shocking Silicon Valley and investors with their capabilities and efficiency. But for a Chinese AI company with overseas ambitions, doing the technically impossible may be the…
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, a new player has emerged that is sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley and beyond. DeepSeek, a Chinese startup founded just over a year ago, has developed an AI model that is offering startlingly comparable performance to industry giants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, but at a fraction…
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…
