OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov, a specially designed version of its AI chatbot tailored for use by US government agencies. ChatGPT Gov aims to harness the potential of AI to enhance efficiency, productivity, and service delivery while safeguarding sensitive data and complying with stringent security requirements. “We believe the US government’s adoption of artificial intelligence…

Alibaba’s response to DeepSeek is Qwen 2.5-Max, the company’s latest Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large-scale model. Qwen 2.5-Max boasts pretraining on over 20 trillion tokens and fine-tuning through cutting-edge techniques like Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). With the API now available through Alibaba Cloud and the model accessible for exploration via Qwen…

Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating a potential breach of the AI firm’s system by a group allegedly linked to Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. According to Bloomberg, the investigation stems from suspicious data extraction activity detected in late 2024 via OpenAI’s application programming interface (API), sparking broader concerns over international AI competition. Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest financial…

Next week marks the beginning of a new era for AI regulations as the first obligations of the EU AI Act take effect. While the full compliance requirements won’t come into force until mid-2025, the initial phase of the EU AI Act begins February 2nd and includes significant prohibitions on specific AI applications. Businesses across…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The open-source model race just keeps on getting more interesting.  Today, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) debuted its latest entry in the race with the launch of its open-source Tülu 3 405 billion-parameter large language…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Y Combinator-backed startup Martin AI announced today it has raised $2 million in seed funding to develop what it claims is a more intuitive and personalized AI assistant that could rival upcoming offerings from OpenAI and…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Riffusion, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, unveiled a free web platform today that enables anyone to create original music using AI, marking a significant advance in generative AI’s expansion into creative domains traditionally dominated by…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Cerebras Systems announced today it will host DeepSeek’s breakthrough R1 artificial intelligence model on U.S. servers, promising speeds up to 57 times faster than GPU-based solutions while keeping sensitive data within American borders. The move comes…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Mistral AI, the rapidly ascending European artificial intelligence startup, unveiled a new language model today that it claims matches the performance of models three times its size while dramatically reducing computing costs — a development that…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Speaking for myself, interacting with any merchant’s AI-powered chatbot on their website is often an exercise in frustration. Phone trees with robot voices are typically worse. I’d wager I’m hardly alone in my assessment. Who amongst…