Market disruption and shockwaves through Silicon Valley marked Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions of how artificial intelligence companies had operated and scaled. In less than a couple of years, the Beijing-based newcomer has accomplished what many thought impossible: creating AI models…
NVIDIA aims to solve AI’s issues with many languages
While AI might feel ubiquitous, it primarily operates in a tiny fraction of the world’s 7,000 languages, leaving a huge portion of the global population behind. NVIDIA aims to fix this glaring blind spot, particularly within Europe. The company has just released a powerful new set…
Generative AI in Healthcare eBook
Real-world insights from the front lines of clinical AI…
Human-in-the-loop work drives AI powering Alibaba’s smart glasses
Alibaba is moving into the smart glasses market with a device powered by its own AI models, part of a wider $52.4 billion furthering of AI and cloud computing. The Quark AI Glasses marks the company’s first step into the wearables category and is due to…
DeepSeek reverts to Nvidia for R2 model after Huawei AI chip fails
DeepSeek’s plan to train its new AI model, R2, on Huawei’s Ascend chips has failed and forced a retreat to Nvidia while delaying launch. For months, the narrative pushed by Beijing has been one of unstoppable technological progress and a march towards self-sufficiency. However, reality has…
The Sequence Opinion #703: Masters of One or Jack of All? The Future of Generalist vs Specialist AI Models
Some thoughts about one of the most important debates in frontier models….
The rise of agentic artificial intelligence
Agentic AI’s autonomy reshapes UK/global regulation debates, exploring new laws vs adapting existing frameworks for emerging capabilities….
Anthropic details its AI safety strategy
Anthropic has detailed its safety strategy to try and keep its popular AI model, Claude, helpful while avoiding perpetuating harms. Central to this effort is Anthropic’s Safeguards team; who aren’t your average tech support group, they’re a mix of policy experts, data scientists, engineers, and threat…
Can Huawei’s open-sourced CANN toolkit break the CUDA monopoly?
A week after Huawei announced its decision to open-source the CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks) software toolkit, the tech industry is still processing what this move means for the future of AI development. By making its Huawei CANN open source alternative to CUDA freely available…
SoundHound is giving its AI the power of sight
SoundHound AI, already a major player in voice assistants, is now giving its technology a pair of eyes. Imagine driving past a landmark and, without pulling out your phone, asking your car, “What’s that building over there?” and getting an instant answer. That’s what SoundHound AI…