Alibaba has released its Qwen3 model series, which achieves benchmark results on par with current top models such as DeepSeek-R1, o1, o3-mini, Grok-3, and Gemini-2.5-Pro. The two largest models in the ...

OpenAI has now officially responded to the recent controversy surrounding GPT-4o's tone. In a blog post, the company admits that the latest update pushed the model’s personality too far in a ...

Just one day after announcing its new "AI-first" strategy (see below), Duolingo has launched its largest content expansion to date. The company has released 148 new language courses, all created using ...

Researchers at the University of Zurich conducted an unauthorized experiment on the popular Reddit community r/ChangeMyView (CMV), using AI-powered accounts to test the persuasive ability of large ...

China's President Xi Jinping called for greater self-reliance in AI development at a Politburo meeting on Friday. Xi emphasized that China must comprehensively advance technological innovation, ...

A group of former OpenAI employees, researchers, and nonprofit organizations is urging regulators to block OpenAI's proposed corporate restructuring, arguing it threatens the company's founding ...

A new open-source AI model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI processes images, text, and videos with surprising efficiency. Kimi-VL stands out for its ability to handle long documents, complex ...

A majority of Americans hold a pessimistic outlook on the influence of artificial intelligence in news and journalism, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in summer 2024. The survey ...

Microsoft has significantly reduced its data center expansion plans, scaling back more than previously reported. The decision follows major changes in its relationship with OpenAI and underperformance ...

Duolingo is restructuring its operations to focus on generative AI for content creation and process automation. The company plans to gradually reduce reliance on contractors wherever AI can handle the ...

RLVR helps repetition, not generalization AI researcher Nathan Lambert describes the findings as consistent with expectations. "This isn’t a new intuition," he writes, "but a nice new set of results." ...

The Ernie 4.5 Turbo and Ernie X1 Turbo models are designed to process text and images, support logical reasoning, and come with lower price tags than their predecessors. According to Baidu, Ernie 4.5 ...