Trump unveils multi billion dollar investment to fund AI infrastructure
US President Donald Trump announced billions of dollars in AI investments, collaborating with major tech companies, which led ...
Perplexity debuts AI assistant for Android, challenges ChatGPT, Siri, and Alexa
The Jeff Bezos and Nvidia-backed startup enters the AI assistant race with its versatile Perplexity Assistant.
Behind $500 billion AI data center plan, US startups jockey with tech giants
On Tuesday, Trump said that ChatGPT creator OpenAI, SoftBank , Oracle and others will pour up to $500 billion in private capital into a joint venture called Stargate, which he said will build data ...
The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget’ may have already undercut those hopes
Hangzhou-based DeepSeek has released several open-source AI models that match OpenAI's performance—with more efficiency and at lower cost.
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Open Source DeepSeek R1 Runs at 200 Tokens Per Second on Raspberry Pi
Experimenters have had overnight tests confirming they have OPEN SOURCE DeepSeek R1 running at 200 tokens per second on a NON-INTERNET connected Raspberry Pi.
How sidestepping Big Tech has paid off lately in these stock ETFs
The U.S. stock market closed higher Thursday, bringing the year-to-date gain of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY to 4%. The S&P 500 climbed 0.5% on Thursday to a record high, lifted by a broad rally ...
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Setting a cat among the pigeons: The world should explore nimble, cost-effective options to the Stargate approach
They have necessitated investments in edge-to-cloud computing and in supercomputers and workstations for applications in these fields.
Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall
WHEN SAM ALTMAN, boss of OpenAI, posted a gnomic tweet this month saying “There is no wall,” his followers on X, a ...
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Why Sam Altman Joined Forces With Larry Ellison and Took a Step Back From Microsoft
As 2024 was drawing to a close, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced two major problems. He wasn’t getting enough server capacity from Microsoft, his company’s biggest backer, to stay ahead of rivals ...
How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and ...
OpenAI’s new Operator AI agent can do things on the web for you
OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” ...
AI on the Cheap vs. Stargate’s Big Splash
Welcome back to Techne! I’m a big fan of The Public Domain Review, an online journal focusing on works of art and literature now in the public domain. Hugh Aldersey-Williams, a writer and curator, ...