Ai Models

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  Xiaomi MiMo AI Models Launched With Efficient Reasoning, Small Size

  Xiaomi released an open-source reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model on Tuesday. Dubbed MiMo, the family of reasoning models innovate the optimisation of reasoning capability in a relatively smaller parameter size. This is also the first open-source reasoning model by the tech giant, and it competes with Chinese models such as DeepSe...

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  China's DeepSeek Rumoured To Launch R2 Model, Here's What To Expect

  Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is ready with an advanced model, which is expected to be released next week.

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  OpenAI's Sam Altman Admits ChatGPT Has Become Annoying: "Too Sycophant-y"

  The issue arose after the GPT-4o model was updated and improved in both intelligence and personality.

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  Duolingo To Phase Out Human Contractors And Replace Them With AI

  The company justified its switch in approach, stating that it had taken a similar call in 2012 by betting big on mobile.

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  OpenAI Updates GPT-4o to Boost Intelligence and Personality, Faces Unexpected Side Effects

  OpenAI updated the GPT-4o artificial intelligence (AI) model on Saturday. The update was aimed at improving the intelligence and personality aspects of the large language model (LLM), which powers the default experience for those on the free tier of ChatGPT. However, on Sunday, the company found that the update had unexpected results, and the AI mo...

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  SanDisk WD Black SN7100 NVMe SSD With 7.2GBps Read Speeds Launched in India

  SanDisk has launched the WD Black SN7100 NVMe SSD (solid-state drive) in India. Similar to other SSDs in the company’s WD Black lineup, the SN7100 model is aimed at mainstream gamers and for tackling AI applications, and comes with support for PCIe Gen4 interface. It is claimed to deliver quick read and write speeds for immersive visuals in games...

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  ChatGPT Now Offers a ‘Lightweight’ Version of Deep Research to All Users

  OpenAI is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Deep Research to the free users of ChatGPT. Announced on Friday, the San Francisco-based AI firm is now offering a “lightweight” version of the tool to all users, including paid subscribers. This version of Deep Research will be powered by the o4-mini AI model and will be available with...

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  Google's Gemini AI Will Come to Tablets, Smartwatches and Replace Google Assistant on Older Devices

  Google announced last week that it is planning to bring Gemini to devices such as tablets, smartwatches, headphones, and Android-powered in-car infotainment systems. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that it is currently working on replacing Google Assistant with Gemini on mobile devices, and the focus on other form factors will begin after t...

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  Adobe Releases Firefly Image Model 4 Ultra, Integrates Third-Party Models from Google, OpenAI

  Adobe announced a slew of new features and improvements at its annual Adobe Max conference on Thursday. The software giant announced new Firefly artificial intelligence (AI) models, support for third-party models, new Adobe Express features, a new Firefly mobile app, and more. The company also introduced a new Adobe Boards tool for storyboard creat...

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  Google Upgrades Gemini 2.0 Flash With a Collaborative, Natural-Sounding Conversation Style

  Google updated the Gemini 2.0 Flash artificial intelligence (AI) model last week. The new update refines the model’s conversational capability and makes it better suited for creative tasks, the Mountain View-based tech giant said. The company claims that users will notice the difference when talking to the AI about certain topics and tasks.

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  Character AI Unveils AvatarFX Model Capable of Generating Consistent Videos From Images

  Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, unveiled its first video generation model on Monday. Dubbed AvatarFX, it is an image-to-video model that can generate 2D and 3D animated characters. The AI firm claims the generated videos will hold temporal consistency with face, hand and body movement. Additionally, the vid...

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  Cohere Introduces Embed 4, an AI-Powered Multimodal Search Engine for Enterprise Data Retrieval

  Cohere released Embed 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) embedding tool, last week. The Toronto-based AI firm pitched the new search and retrieval tool to businesses building and deploying AI applications and agents. The company, which builds enterprise-focused AI models and tools, claims that Embed 4 can understand complex, multimodal documents an...

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  OpenAI’s o3 AI Model Falls Short of Benchmark Claims in FrontierMath Test

  OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model, which was released last week, is underperforming on a specific benchmark. Epoch AI, the company behind the FrontierMath benchmark, highlighted that the publicly available version of the o3 AI model scored 10 percent on the test, a much lower value than the company’s claim at launch.

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  Asus Chromebook CX14 and CX15 With Intel Celeron Processor Announced Alongside Chromebook Plus Models

  Asus has announced the refreshed lineup of Chromebook CX14 and Chromebook CX15 series laptops, powered by Intel Celeron processors. As per the company, both models are available in 14-inch and 15-inch screen size options with full HD screens and a 180-degree “lay-flat” hinge design. Alongside, Asus has also introduced the Chromebook Plus models...

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  OpenAI's Reasoning Models Are "Hallucinating" And Creators Have No Idea Why: Report

  OpenAI has been betting heavily on the new models to beat the likes of Google, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek in the cutthroat global AI race.