Is China’s Large Language Model Really A ‘Disruptor’?

New Delhi: There is a new kid on the Artificial Intelligence-driven chatbot / large language model block, and it is threatening to blow the rest out of the water. Meet DeepSeek, developed by a Hangzhou-based research lab with a fraction of the budget (if you believe the rumours) used to make ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude AI, … Read more

Deepseek’s R1 Is An Impressive Model, Says OpenAI Chief Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Chinese startup DeepSeek’s R1 AI model “impressive” on Monday, but emphasized that OpenAI believes greater computing power was key to their own success. DeepSeek, a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model, grabbed global attention last month when it stated in a paper that training its DeepSeek-V3 model required less than $6 … Read more

Google Pixel 9a’s Higher Storage Variants to Reportedly Cost More than Last Year’s Model

Google Pixel 9a is rumoured to be in development as the most affordable option in the Pixel 9 series. However, it may not be as cheap as last year. A new report suggests that some variants of the phone could be more expensive compared to their Pixel 8a counterparts. This decision by Google is said … Read more

Hugging Face Introduces Compact Versions of SmolVLM Vision Language Model That Can Run on Consumer Laptops

Hugging Face introduced two new variants to its SmolVLM vision language models last week. The new artificial intelligence (AI) models are available in 256 million and 500 million parameter sizes, with the former being claimed as the world’s smallest vision model by the company. The new variants focus on retaining the efficiency of the older … Read more

OpenAI Updates Canvas With o1 AI Model Support, Expands to ChatGPT App for macOS

OpenAI announced several upgrades for its Canvas feature on Saturday. The sandbox-styled pop-up window that allows users to work alongside the chatbot to make inline edits, formatting, and coding was first released in October 2024 in early beta. It was then rolled out to all users in December 2024. Now, the AI firm has added … Read more

DeepSeek Says Its New Reasoning-Focused DeepSeek-R1 AI Model Can Outperform OpenAI’s o1

DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model by the Chinese firm DeepSeek, was released on Monday. This is the full version of the open source AI model, which arrives two months after its preview version was released. The open-source AI model is available to download, and can also be used as a plug-and-play application programming … Read more

Siddharth Nagar: Aspiring to be a model, married to senior army officer for 15 years, still together after divorce… now body found hanging from fan

The body of the ex-wife of an electricity department official (executive engineer) was found hanging from a fan in Siddharth Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. The deceased was associated with the modeling industry. Preliminary investigation revealed that he committed suicide by hanging. The officer and the deceased had a love marriage but later divorced. However, they have … Read more