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Source: The Verge That was CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s message to investors during his company’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. During the Q&A portion of the call with Wall Street analysts, Zuckerberg fielded multiple questions about DeepSeek’s impressive AI models and what the implications are for Meta’s AI strategy. He said that what DeepSeek was able…
Source: The Verge Gemini has some new abilities that could make it more helpful in Sheets, Google announced in a post on the Workspace blog. Now, Gemini can respond to questions about your data with details about trends or by creating static charts that you can insert into your spreadsheet as images. The new capability…
Source: Live Mint The race for AI supremacy is intensifying as three major players—Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen, the Chinese startup DeepSeek, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT—battle for dominance in the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. Each is pushing the boundaries of performance, efficiency, and cost, but in different ways that could shape the future of AI technology and…
Source: The Verge You can bet on seeing lots of AI ads during the Super Bowl LIX, according to Mark Evans, the executive VP of ad sales for Fox Sports. Evans told The Hollywood Reporter that AI “will be coming like a freight train,” and that some companies have paid over $8 million for 30-second…
Source: Live Mint Human rights activists and international experts have sharply criticised China’s newly developed AI platform, DeepSeek, amid concerns that it facilitates state propaganda, suppresses sensitive discussions, and collects personal data. Marketed as a significant technological breakthrough, the platform has drawn scrutiny over ethical and security risks, with campaigners warning of its potential to…
Source: The Verge Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek disrupted Silicon Valley with the release of cheaply developed AI models that compete with flagship offerings from OpenAI — but the ChatGPT maker suspects they were built upon OpenAI data. OpenAI and Microsoft are investigating whether the Chinese rival used OpenAI’s API to integrate OpenAI’s AI models…
Source: The Verge It took about a month for the finance world to start freaking out about DeepSeek, but when it did, it took more than half a trillion dollars — or one entire Stargate — off Nvidia’s market cap. It wasn’t just Nvidia, either: Tesla, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft tanked. DeepSeek’s two AI models,…
Source: The Verge The rise of generative AI has been powered by Nvidia and its advanced GPUs. As demand far outstrips supply, the H100 has become highly sought after and extremely expensive, making Nvidia a trillion-dollar company for the first time. It’s also prompting customers, like Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Google to start working…
Source: The Verge Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn…
Source: Live Mint A groundbreaking development by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has sparked a global frenzy, with many in China celebrating it as a historic milestone that could reshape the future of technology. Dubbed by tech leaders like Marc Andreessen as “AI’s Sputnik moment,” the launch of DeepSeek’s cheaper, open-source artificial intelligence model has turned…
