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NVIDIA Brings the Grace Blackwell Superchip to the Desktop

Nvidia announced project digits, a desktop system with the gb10 superchip and planned may availability. The source bounds the event: the starting price, availability and model size were vendor conditions and maxima, not results for every workload. The story teaches how to translate a hardware card into comparable memory, precision, workload, power and cost.

6 min 6 Jan. 2025

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Phi-4 and the test that matters: when a small model is enough

Phi-4 does not show that size no longer matters; it shows how to separate parameters, memory, data, benchmarks and license before choosing a model.

4 min 11 Dec. 2024

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Gemini 2.0 Flash: clicking correctly does not grant permission

Gemini 2.0 Flash powered prototypes that researched and browsed. Agent evaluation must separate competence, authority, confirmation and recovery.

4 min 11 Dec. 2024

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OpenAI Opens Sora Video Generator to ChatGPT Plus and Pro

OpenAI is making Sora Turbo available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers. The tool generates and edits videos from text and images, with limits and controls designed to curb deceptive uses.

5 min 9 Dec. 2024

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OpenAI launches o1 and $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro

OpenAI is releasing the full version of o1, its model for solving complex problems, along with ChatGPT Pro, a $200-a-month subscription that includes access to its most demanding reasoning mode.

5 min 5 Dec. 2024

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Alibaba launches QwQ, its open step-by-step reasoning model

Alibaba's Qwen team has released QwQ-32B-Preview, a 32-billion-parameter model that reasons step by step before answering. It's open-access and arrives just months after OpenAI unveiled o1.

4 min 27 Nov. 2024

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Anthropic unveils MCP, a standard connecting AI and tools

Anthropic has released the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI assistants access external data and tools through a common interface. The proposal aims to reduce fragmentation when integrating models with enterprise services.

4 min 25 Nov. 2024

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Amazon and Anthropic: how to read an $8 billion AI alliance

The alliance links capital, cloud, distribution and chip design. Separating those flows reveals control, dependency and value beyond the check.

4 min 22 Nov. 2024

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DeepSeek launches R1-Lite-Preview to rival reasoning models

DeepSeek has unveiled R1-Lite-Preview, a model designed to spend more steps on math and logic problems. The Chinese company says it comes close to OpenAI’s o1-preview reasoning model.

5 min 20 Nov. 2024

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Apple rolls out Apple Intelligence with iOS 18.1 on compatible iPhones

Apple has launched the first Apple Intelligence features with iOS 18.1. Writing tools, summaries and a redesigned Siri initially arrive in U.S. English on the latest iPhones.

5 min 28 Oct. 2024

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Mistral unveils Ministral, its AI models for the edge

Mistral AI launches Ministral 3B and 8B, two compact models designed to run AI on local devices. They offer a 128,000-token context window and aim to reduce costs, latency, and reliance on the cloud.

4 min 16 Oct. 2024

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Meta unveils Movie Gen, its model for creating video and sound

Meta has unveiled Movie Gen, a family of models that generates videos with synchronized audio and lets users edit footage through text prompts. The company presents it as a research advance and has not released it as a public product.

5 min 4 Oct. 2024