Alibaba has unveiled its latest multimodal AI model, Qwen2.5-VL-32B, released under the Apache 2.0 license. Early benchmarks show the model outperforming larger competitors like Gemma 3-27B and ...

Following the approach used for all large reasoning models, Tencent relied heavily on reinforcement learning during development, with 96.7 percent of post-training computing power focused on improving ...

Grok users are getting access to two new features as xAI rolls out an enhanced research tool and image editor. The updates are being introduced gradually across the platform. The new "DeeperSearch" ...

A new Harvard Business School study reveals open-source software represents enormous economic value. Without it, companies would spend 3.5 times more on software, with just 5% of developers generating ...

William Fedus, who served as Vice President of Post-Training at OpenAI, has announced his departure from the company to pursue AI applications in scientific research. In an internal memo to colleagues ...

Google DeepMind has revealed the cost structure for its Veo 2 video generation model, available through its cloud API platform. Creating a video with Veo 2 costs $0.50 per second in the Vertex cloud ...

Former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee is pivoting his AI startup 01.AI to fully embrace Deepseek's open-source models, describing them as an existential challenge to OpenAI's business model. Lee's ...

Cognition AI has secured hundreds of millions in new funding at a nearly $4 billion valuation, with venture capital firm 8VC leading the round. The investment doubles the startup's previous valuation, ...

Google's experimental AI mode pushes search toward a closed ecosystem, mirroring OpenAI's ChatGPT search and Perplexity while potentially delivering a fatal blow to the open web. The system, built on ...

Instead of simply blocking unwanted AI crawlers, Cloudflare has introduced a new defense method that lures them into a maze of AI-generated content, designed to waste their time and resources. The new ...

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HPC-AI Tech has developed a new video AI system that achieves commercial-grade quality at about one-tenth the typical training cost by using new compression methods ...