Google Pixel 9a Spotted on EMVCo Certification Site; Model Number, Android Version Revealed

Google Pixel 9a has been spotted on another certification website, in a sign that its debut could be right around the corner. The company is said to be planning the launch of a midrange smartphone equipped with its Tensor G4 chip. We can also expect the Pixel 9a to run on Android 15 out-of-the-box — … Read more

Mistral Small 3 Open-Source AI Model Introduced, Outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini

Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the Mistral Small 3 AI model on Thursday. The company, known for its open-source large language models (LLMs), has also made the latest AI model available on Hugging Face as well as several other platforms. Mistral claimed that the latest model was built with processing speed, efficiency, … Read more

Microsoft Adds DeepSeek-R1 AI Model to Its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub

Microsoft added support for the recently released DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model to its Azure AI Foundry and GitHub on Wednesday. The reasoning-focused AI model can now be accessed via these platforms. The Redmond-based tech giant also highlighted that it has conducted rigorous safety evaluations to ensure that the model is safe to use for … Read more

Hugging Face Is Trying to Build a Fully Open-Source Version of DeepSeek-R1 AI Model

Hugging Face announced a new initiative on Tuesday to build Open-R1, a fully open reproduction of the DeepSeek-R1 model. The hedge fund-backed Chinese AI firm released the DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model in the public domain last week, sending shockwaves across Silicon Valley and NASDAQ. A big reason was that such an advanced and large-scale … Read more

DeepSeek-R1 AI Model Said to Be Censoring China-Focused Prompts Raising Concerns Over Its Reliability

DeepSeek’s latest reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model, DeepSeek-R1, is said to be censoring a large number of queries. An AI firm ran tests on the large language model (LLM) and found that it does not answer China-specific queries that go against the policies of the country’s ruling party. By running a code to generate a … Read more

Alibaba Releases Qwen 2.5 AI Model, Claims It Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 Artificial Intelligence (AI) model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max’s release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to … Read more

Alibaba Launches New AI Model; Claims It Can Beat DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Llama

Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek’s AI, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Meta’s Llama. The Chinese tech company’s cloud division claimed in a statement that “Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” referring to the advanced open-source AI models from … Read more

Sam Altman’s Old Video Is Viral Amid Success Of China’s Cheap AI Model

There’s a new entrant in the Artificial Intelligence chatbot market from China. It is competing with giants like OpenAI, Gemini, ClaudeAI, etc. disrupting the American hegemony in AI-based generative chatbot models. DeepSeek – the Chinese alternative to American-made AI models – has taken the industry by storm. DeepSeek founders spent only $5.6 million to build … Read more

OpenAI to Release o3-Mini AI Model to ChatGPT Free Tier, Plus Subscribers to Get Higher Rate Limits

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made several announcements for ChatGPT users on Sunday. The o3 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models, which were unveiled in December 2024 as a research preview, will now witness its first global release. Altman stated that the o3-mini AI model will be rolling out to both the paid subscribers as well … Read more

DeepSeek Releases Janus Pro 7B Image Generation AI Model, Said to Outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released an open-source image generation model on Monday. The company has generated a buzz in the AI space recently by releasing multiple fully open-source frontier foundation models, including the reasoning-focused DeepSeek-R1. The new model, dubbed Janus Pro 7B, comes days after the R1 model and the company claims … Read more