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While the world's leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of the industry's most secretive and valuable startups delivered a pointed challenge to that orthodoxy this week: The path forward isn't about training bigger — it's about learning better."I believe that...
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded French AI startup Mistral launched its own Mistral AI Studio, a new production platform designed to help enterprises build, observe, and operationalize AI applications at scale atop Mistral's growing family of...
China’s Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, detailed technical information around its new model, Ring-1T, which the company said is “the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion total parameters.”Ring-1T aims to compete with other reasoning models like GPT-5 and the o-series from OpenAI, as well as Google’s Gemini 2.5. With the new release of the latest model, Ant extends the...
Is the Google Search for internal enterprise knowledge finally here...but from OpenAI? It certainly seems that way. Today, OpenAI has launched company knowledge in ChatGPT, a major new capability for subscribers to ChatGPT's paid Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans that lets them call up their company's data directly from third-party workplace apps including Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail...
Microsoft today held a live announcement event online for its Copilot AI digital assistant, with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft's AI division, and other presenters unveiling a new generation of features that deepen integration across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365, positioning the platform as a practical assistant for people during work and off-time, while allowing them to preserve control...
May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer AI, delivered one of the bluntest assessments of corporate AI failures at the TED AI conference on Tuesday, revealing that nearly half of Fortune 500 executives believe artificial intelligence is actively damaging their organizations — and placing the blame squarely on leadership's shoulders.The problem, according to Habib, isn't the technology. It's that...
In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become dangerously narrow — and that he's moving on from his own creation.Llion Jones, who co-authored the seminal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" and...
Data engineers should be working faster than ever. AI-powered tools promise to automate pipeline optimization, accelerate data integration and handle the repetitive grunt work that has defined the profession for decades.Yet, according to a new survey of 400 senior technology executives by MIT Technology Review Insights in partnership with Snowflake, 77% say their data engineering teams' workloads...
One of the leading architects of the current generative AI boom — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, famed for having the software giant take an early investment in OpenAI (and later saying he was "good for my $80 billion") — published his latest annual letter yesterday on LinkedIn (a Microsoft subsidiary), and it's chock full of interesting ideas about the near-term future that enterprise technical...
China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption and cutting-edge research, according to Kai-Fu Lee, one of the world's most prominent AI scientists and investors.In a rare, unvarnished assessment delivered via video link from Beijing to the TED AI...