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India Delays UPI Payments Market Share Cap in Relief for PhonePe, Google Pay India has pushed back the implementation of market share caps for UPI apps like Google Pay and PhonePe. According to the proposal, first made in November 2020, digital payment firms would not be allowed to hold more than 30 percent share of the volume of transactions processed via India's popular unified payments interface (UPI).

Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into the mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many major tech products and platforms offering pra...

AgiBot Robotics Firm Open Sources Massive Dataset to Train Humanoid Robots AgiBot, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics firm open-sourced a massive dataset containing high-quality data on training humanoid robots on Monday. Dubbed AgiBot World Alpha, the dataset is said to be collected from more than 100 robots in real-life scenarios. The company stated that this dataset can help researchers and developers accelerate the train...

Nvidia Is Reportedly Focusing on Embodied AI and Robotics Amid Rising Competition in AI Chips Market Nvidia is reportedly shifting its focus from artificial intelligence (AI) chipsets to robotics and embodied AI. As per the report, the Santa Clara-based tech giant is looking to provide processing capabilities and training for robots due to the rising competition in the AI hardware space. Notably, recently an Nvidia executive highlighted that the company is planning t...

Aitomatic and AI Alliance Unveil SemiKong Open Source AI Model Focused on Semiconductors Aitomatic and the other collaborators under the Foundation Models workgroup of the AI Alliance unveiled a new semiconductor-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model earlier this month. Dubbed SemiKong, the large language model (LLM) is built on the domain-expert agents (DXA) architecture and has been trained on high-quality data about the industry. The model is expe...

AI Tools Could Sell User Data About Opinions and Preferences, Create an ‘Intention Economy’: Study Artificial intelligence (AI) tools could soon start predicting and manipulating users with the large pool of “intent data” they have, a study has claimed. Conducted by the University of Cambridge, the research paper also highlights that in the future, an “intention economy” could be formed which creates a marketplace for selling “digital signals of intent”...

US President-Elect Donald Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law That Could Ban TikTok President-elect Donald Trump has urged the US Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban TikTok. The law would require TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the platform to an American company or face a ban.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Reportedly Bets Big on Gemini and AI, Says ‘2025 Will Be Critical’ Google is reportedly considering 2025 as a critical year and wants to heavily bet on artificial intelligence (AI) and Gemini to disrupt the existing landscape. As per the report, the company CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the next year will be disruptive and Google will look to scale the consumer side of Gemini at a strategy meeting held on December 18.

OpenAI and Microsoft Reportedly Have a Strange Commercial Indicator for AGI OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly have a unique definition of what constitutes artificial general intelligence or AGI. As per the report, the two entities added a commercial indicator of AGI in last year’s extension of their partnership. The new definition claims that an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion (roughly Rs. 854 lakh crore) in profits will be ...

ChatGPT Search Feature Reportedly Vulnerable to Prompt Injection and Hidden Text Manipulation ChatGPT Search, a feature that lets the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot look for information on the web, is reportedly vulnerable to manipulation by website developers and owners. As per the report, OpenAI’s search engine’s behaviour can be altered using hidden text on the website. This text is said to be used to feed incorrect and deceptive information to th...

DeepSeek-V3 Open-Source AI Model With Mixture-of-Experts Architecture Released DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the DeepSeek-V3 AI model on Thursday. The new open-source large language model (LLM) features a massive 671 billion parameters, surpassing the Meta Llama 3.1 model which has 405 billion parameters. Despite its size, the researchers claimed that the LLM is focused towards efficiency with its mixture-of-exp...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Development Has Reportedly Suffered a Data Shortage Setback OpenAI is reportedly behind schedule with its GPT-5 development. As per the report, the AI firm has hit several roadblocks in taking the successor to GPT-4 to the desired level of capability, including training data shortage and the requirement of massive funds. The artificial intelligence (AI) model is said to be under development for more than 18 months, which is si...

Nvidia Executive Claims AI-Powered Robots in the Future Will Be Trained on Simulation, Share a Hive Mind Nvidia’s Senior Research Manager and Lead of the Embodied AI division Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) Lab, Jim Fan, highlighted how artificial intelligence (AI) robots in the future could be trained and function. The executive claimed that soon embodied AI agents will be born in simulation where they will learn and gain expertise in specific tasks.

Google Reportedly Using Anthropic’s Claude to Improve Gemini’s Outputs Google is reportedly comparing Gemini’s responses against those generated by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant asked third-party contractors who work on evaluating the quality of Gemini’s responses to also rate whether Claude’s responses are better. While it is not an uncommon practice...

Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QVQ-72B Open Source Vision AI Model in Preview Alibaba’s Qwen research team has released another open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. Dubbed QVQ-72B, it is a vision-based reasoning model that can analyse visual information from images and understand the context behind them. The tech giant has also shared benchmark scores of the AI model and highlighted that on one specific test, it was able to outperf...

Apple Seeks to Defend Google's Billion-Dollar Payments in Search Case Apple wants to call witnesses to testify at an April trial. Prosecutors will seek to show Google must take several measures, including selling its Chrome Web browser and potentially its Android operating system, to restore competition in online search.

Instagram Reportedly Testing Feature to Allow Users to View Story Highlights From a Week Ago Instagram may soon allow users to view older stories from their followers that they have missed in the first 24 hours. A recent report suggested that the Meta-owned social media site is testing a feature that will allow users to view Story Highlights from mutual followers for a week after they were posted.

Amazon Offering Big Discounts on Smart TVs From Leading Brands in Year End Sale: See Prices, Deals Amazon is currently offering huge discounts on smart TVs in India as part of its year-end bonanza. A wide selection of smart televisions from leading brands like Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense and more can be bought at a significantly lower price point than their usual market rates. Customers can avail of additional benefits like bank or exchange offers and coupon discoun...

OpenAI Reportedly Considering Building Humanoid Robots, Could Be Integrated With Its AI Models OpenAI is reportedly considering building humanoid robots, likely as an expansion of its existing intelligence software stack. As per the report, the AI firm has held discussions about entering the robotics space and making human-like robots in particular. The company’s interest in robotics is not new, as it used to have an active robotics division that was abandone...

Tetsuwan Scientific Is Building AI-Powered Robotic Scientists That Can Carry Out Experiments Tetsuwan Scientific, a San Francisco-based startup, is building artificial intelligence (AI) robotics that can perform the tasks of a scientist. The Co-founders, CEO Cristian Ponce and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Théo Schäfer, brought the startup out of stealth in November after a successful seed round funding. The company aims to build intelligent software t...

Amazon and Universal Music Group Expand Partnership to Address ‘Unlawful AI-Generated Content’ Amazon and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced the expansion of their partnership on Monday. Among other topics, the two entities highlighted that the collaboration will focus on the advancement of artist-centric principles including increased fraud protection. While both the companies had a collaborative agreement in place, the new partnership expands its scope and...

Hugging Face Showcases How Test-Time Compute Scaling Can Help SLMs Outperform Larger AI Models Hugging Face shared a new case study last week showcasing how small language models (SLMs) can outperform larger models. In the post, the platform’s researchers claimed that instead of increasing the training time of artificial intelligence (AI) models, focusing on the test-time compute can show enhanced results for AI models.

OpenAI Shares Benchmark Scores of o3 Series AI Models, Offers Unlimited Access of Sora to Paid Subscribers OpenAI shared the benchmark scores of the o3 series of artificial intelligence (AI) models on Friday. As successor to the recently released o1 series of AI models, the company claimed that o3 significantly surpasses the capabilities of the older version. The series has two models, the o3 and o3-mini, and is focused on advanced reasoning-based tasks.

Google Offers to Loosen Search Deals With Apple, Other Firms in US Antitrust Case Remedy Google urged US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington to move cautiously in deciding what the company must do to restore competition, after his ruling that the company holds an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising.

WhatsApp Wins Ruling Against NSO Group as US Court Finds It Liable for Pegasus Spyware Hack WhatsApp claimed a legal win over the NSO Group, the makers of the Pegasus spyware, on Friday. A US District Court judge ruled in favour of the Meta-owned platform and found that the Israeli company is liable for hacking 1,400 individuals’ devices and infecting them with spyware via the instant messaging platform’s servers.

Realme Announces Strategic Rs. 100 Crore Investment to Advance Quad-Curved Display Technology for Its Phones Realme will invest approximately Rs. 100 Crore towards the betterment of quad-curved display technology for its smartphones globally, the company has announced. This strategic investment will focus on key research and development of advanced display manufacturing techniques.

Japan's Antitrust Watchdog to Find Google Violated Law in Search Case: Report The Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC) will soon issue a cease and desist order asking Google to halt its monopolistic practices, a report by Nikkei said.

Gemini 1.5 Pro with Deep Research Now Available Globally in More Than 45 Languages to Advanced Subscribers Google expanded Gemini’s agentic function, Deep Research, to more than 150 countries and 45 languages on Saturday. The feature was unveiled alongside the Gemini 2.0 family of AI models earlier this month. However, its capabilities are currently tied to the 1.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model. Currently, Deep Research is only available in the web version of Ge...

Google Blasts Chrome Sale as ‘Extreme’ Remedy at Odds With Law Google on Friday labelled the US Justice Department's plan to sell its web browser as "extreme" and legally flawed, cautioning a judge against stifling future innovation. In a court filing, the search giant proposed its own remedy, arguing the Chrome sale doesn't match the illegal conduct involving exclusive contracts with browsers, manufacturers, and carriers.

Genesis Open-Source AI Physics Engine Introduced, Can Generate 4D Dynamic Worlds to Train Robots Genesis, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) physics model that can simulate four-dimensional (4D) worlds, was unveiled on Thursday. This is a unique AI model, as it combines several different capabilities to simulate scenarios for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. The researchers behind the project claimed that Genesis excels at simulation ...

Rapido Reportedly Fixes Security Flaw That Exposed User and Driver Information Rapido has addressed a security flaw that exposed user and driver personal information via a feedback form, revealing names, email addresses, and phone numbers, according to a TechCrunch report. Discovered by a security researcher, the issue has been acknowledged and resolved by securing the portal to prevent unauthorised access and potential scams.

Amazon Prime Video to Limit Streaming to 5 Devices Per Account Starting January 2025 Amazon Prime Video is revising the number of devices which can be connected to one account in India, the video streaming platform has announced. It previously allowed Prime users to connect up to 10 devices to a single account but is cutting down the limit exactly in half. The video streaming platform is also reducing the number of TVs which are allowed on one account...

McDonald’s India Delivery System Reportedly Exposed Personal Information of Customers Due to API Bug McDonald’s India reportedly left the personal data of its customers and drivers exposed due to a security flaw. As per the report, the vulnerabilities arose due to bugs in the application programming interface (API) of the restaurant franchise’s delivery system. The entire McDonald’s India West and South divisions were said to be affected by this security flaw t...

Anthropic Study Highlights AI Models Can ‘Pretend’ to Have Different Views During Training Anthropic published a new study where it found that artificial intelligence (AI) models can pretend to hold different views during training while holding onto their original preferences. On Wednesday, the AI firm highlighted that such inclinations raise serious concerns as developers will not be able to trust the outcomes of safety training, which is a critical tool t...

Apple Partners With Nvidia to Improve Performance Speed of Its AI Models Apple is partnering with Nvidia in an effort to improve the performance speed of artificial intelligence (AI) models. On Wednesday, the Cupertino-based tech giant announced that it has been researching inference acceleration on Nvidia’s platform to see whether both the efficiency and latency of a large language model (LLM) can be improved simultaneously.

Google Rolling Out Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced Model to Paid Subscribers Google is rolling out a new artificial intelligence (AI) model from the Gemini 2.0 family. Dubbed Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced, the large language model (LLM) will only be available to the paid subscribers of Gemini. The new model release comes just days after the Mountain View-based tech giant released the Gemini 2.0 Flash model to Gemini’s Android app.

Threads Testing Schedule Posts Option; Instagram Allows Scheduling Direct Messages  Meta has revealed that it is testing a new feature for Threads that will allow users to schedule their posts. The release timeline for this feature has not yet been confirmed. Meanwhile, another Meta-owned social media site, Instagram, has quietly introduced a schedule option for direct messages. Users will be able to schedule text messages in DMs using this feature....

Meta’s Irish Arm Fined $264 Million by Watchdog Over Data Breach Ireland’s data protection commission fined Meta Platforms Inc.’s Irish arm following two inquiries into a personal data breach. The breach was reported by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in September 2018. It impacted data including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, posts on time lines and groups of which the user was a member,

Google’s Whisk AI Experimental Tool Can Mash-Up Images to Generate Unique Outputs Google introduced a new experimental artificial intelligence (AI) tool on Monday that can fuse images to generate a unique output. Dubbed Whisk, it is a fun tool which does not have any larger application outside of its designated function. The Mountain View-based tech giant has released several such fun AI tools recently, such as GenChess which uses the Imagen 3 AI m...

Cricket Scores to Recipes, Here Is What Indian Users Asked Alexa in 2024 Amazon has revealed the most popular Alexa questions that Indian users asked the voice assistant this year. In 2024, the tech giant said cricket queries took the number one spot followed by details about celebrities from various fields.

ChatGPT Search Is Rolling Out to All Registered Users for Free OpenAI announced the rolling out of its search engine-based feature to all registered users on Monday. Dubbed ChatGPT Search, the feature enables users to find responses to their queries from the information available on the web across websites and blogs. The feature was first announced in July when a prototype called SearchGPT was released to a small group of testers...

Facebook-Parent Meta Settles with Australia's Privacy Watchdog Over Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit Meta Platforms has agreed to a AUD 50 million settlement ($31.85 million or roughly Rs. 270 crore), Australia's privacy watchdog over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In June 2023, the country's federal court ordered Meta and the privacy commissioner to enter mediation.

TikTok Turns to US Supreme Court in Last-Ditch Bid to Avert Ban TikTok made a last-ditch effort on Monday to continue operating in the United States. TikTok has denied that it has or ever would share US user data, accusing US lawmakers of advancing speculative concerns.

UK's Ofcom to Tweak Social Media Rules in Response to Summer Riots To regulate social media practices, Ofcom said it is planning additional measures for next spring that include new proposals for removing material tied to child sexual abuse and terrorism. It will also introduce “crisis response protocols for emergency events.”

OpenAI Rolling Out Projects in ChatGPT, a New Feature That Takes on Google’s NotebookLM OpenAI rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for ChatGPT on Friday. The new feature, dubbed Projects in ChatGPT or just Projects, allows users to create specific chat folders where they can ask questions about the same topic or about topics with the same context. With the ability to add files in Projects, the feature is similar to Google’s NotebookLM...

Meta Announces 'Video Seal' Open-Source Tool to Watermark AI-Generated Videos Meta is releasing a new artificial intelligence (AI) watermarking tool that can add an invisible watermark to AI-generated videos. Dubbed Video Seal, the new tool joins the company’s existing watermarking tools, Audio Seal and Watermark Anything. The company suggested that the tool will be open-sourced, however, has not hosted it anywhere so far.

Amazon Paused Rollout of Microsoft Office for a Year After Hacks Amazon paused the rollout after Microsoft discovered a Russia-linked hacker group had gained access to some of its employees’ email accounts. After conducting its own analysis of the software, Amazon asked for changes to guard against unauthorised access and create a more detailed accounting of user activity in the apps

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku AI Model Released to All Users on the Web and Mobile Apps Anthropic has silently released the Claude 3.5 Haiku artificial intelligence (AI) model to users. On Thursday, several netizens began posting about the model's availability in Claude's web interface and mobile apps. Anthropic stated that the new generation of Haiku is the company’s fastest large language model developed. Notably, all Claude users irrespective of the...

Rivals Criticise Google's Search Result Changes, Call for EU Antitrust Charges Over 20 price comparison websites across Europe have proposed changes to its search results, saying they still fail to comply with EU tech rules. The DMA prohibits it from favouring its products and services on its platform.

Apple Working With Broadcom to Develop First AI Server Chip: Report Apple is reportedly developing a new server chip in partnership with Broadcom to support AI features. The company previously planned to offload some Apple Intelligence processing to the cloud, but it has not yet used its own processor for AI applications.

Google Updates Gemini AI Design on Web Interface and Android App Google has made several minor adjustments to Gemini’s design on both the web interface and the Android app. While minor, these changes to the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot will make it easier to use and display more relevant information. On the web, the text field has been redesigned and certain icons have been repositioned. On the Android app, the model info...

Cognition Labs’ AI Software Engineer Devin Launched for Subscribers Cognition Labs released its artificial intelligence (AI) platform Devin on Tuesday. First announced in March, the AI tool can function as a software engineer and perform complex coding tasks such as writing code in different languages, building and deploying websites and apps, fixing bugs, code debugging, and more. The AI firm claimed that Devin was able to pass pract...

OpenAI’s Canvas Tool for ChatGPT Comes Out of Preview, Made Available to All Users OpenAI released the Canvas tool out of preview on Tuesday, day four of its 12-day shipping schedule. Canvas was first announced in October as a sandbox-styled pop-up window that allows users to make inline edits, formatting, and other changes to text and code. Users can both make edits themselves or highlight a particular section and ask the AI to make changes.

Amazon AGI SF Lab Focused on Developing New Capabilities of AI Agents Established Amazon announced setting up a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory on Monday. Dubbed Amazon AGI SF Lab, the new research lab will be based in San Francisco and focus on developing AI agents with real-world applications. The Seattle-based tech recently hired several top executives from the startup Adept AI Labs and will be seeding the new division with the new h...

Vipps Emerges as First Apple Pay Tap-to-Pay Competitor on iPhone Due to EU Regulation Vipps has launched contactless payments on iPhone in Norway, becoming the first third-party app to offer tap-to-pay on iOS, similar to Apple Pay. Previously, only Apple Pay and Wallet could access the NFC chip, but iOS 18.1 update now allows third-party access in select regions.

Google Says it Has Cracked a Quantum Computing Challenge with New Chip Google on Monday said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.

YouTube Partners NCERT to Introduce YouTube Channels for Students in 29 Languages YouTube has partnered with the NCERT to provide access to educational materials for students in 29 languages, including Indian Sign Language in India. The company is also bringing IIT-grade credentialed courses via NPTEL to on YouTube, with the option to receive a certification from the IITs.

CCI Seeks Supreme Court Hearing to Expedite Amazon, Flipkart Cases The Competition Commission of India asked the court to hear 23 challenges, filed by Samsung, Vivo, and several vendors on the Amazon and Flipkart platforms, to enable the case to be decided quickly.

Google Introduces PaliGemma 2 Family of Open Source AI Vision-Language Models Google introduced the successor to its PaliGemma artificial intelligence (AI) vision-language model on Thursday. Dubbed PaliGemma 2, the family of AI models improve upon the capabilities of the older generation. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the vision-language model can see, understand, and interact with visual input such as images and other visual assets. ...

OpenAI Launches Full Version of Reasoning-Focused o1 AI Model, Introduces ChatGPT Pro Subscription OpenAI brought the o1 artificial intelligence (AI) model out of preview on Thursday and released the full version. The AI firm claims that the new model can now perform tasks that the o1-preview could not. It is also said to be faster in response times and more concise in its thinking. The OpenAI o1 AI model will be available to all the paid subscribers of ChatGPT.

Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 2 AI Model, Can Generate Playable 3D Worlds to Train AI Agents Google DeepMind unveiled the successor to the Genie artificial intelligence (AI) model, which could generate endless 2D game worlds, on Wednesday. Dubbed Genie 2, the new AI model is capable of generating unique action-controllable, playable 3D environments based on a single image prompt. The company said these generated worlds could be played by humans or can be used...

Google’s AI-Powered Weather Prediction Model GenCast Outperforms Top Forecasting Systems, Says Study Google introduced its weather predicting artificial intelligence (AI) model GenCast on Wednesday. The AI model was developed by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s AI research division Google DeepMind. The company’s researchers have also published a paper on the technology highlighting its capabilities in making medium-range weather forecasts. The company claims ...

Google Launches AI Image Generation Model Imagen 3 and Video Model Veo Google finally launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) image and video generation models on Wednesday. Both of these AI models were unveiled at Google I/O as the tech giant’s latest advancement in generative AI. Now, more than six months later, the Mountain View-based company has introduced it on Vertex AI for its enterprise clients.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Launches Automated Reasoning Checks in Preview to Combat AI Hallucinations Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new service at its ongoing re:Invent conference that will help enterprises reduce instances of artificial intelligence (AI) hallucination. Launched on Monday, the Automated Reasoning checks tool is available in preview and can be found within the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. The company claimed that the tool mathematically validates ...

OpenAI Reportedly Considering Showing Ads on ChatGPT in a Bid to Boost Revenue OpenAI is reportedly looking at ads as a way to create a new revenue source. As per the report, the AI firm is considering showing ads on ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform. However, it is said that there is no decision on when or how these ads could be displayed.

Apple Accused of Silencing Workers, Spying on Personal Devices Apple faces new accusations in a lawsuit filed by an employee over unlawful surveillance of employees' personal devices and iCloud accounts, The employee has alleged the firm requires staff to install software on personal devices used for work that provides access to their personal data, and prohibits them from discussing wages and work conditions.

Bitcoin’s Push Toward $100,000 Runs Into a Wall of Resistance Bitcoin's unstoppable surge towards a record price of $100,000 appears to be waning. With Bitcoin's price levelling off, attention is shifting to other digital currencies like Ether and XRP, which have not kept pace with Bitcoin's historic rise following President-elect Donald Trump's victory.

Hume Introduces Interpretability-Based Voice Control Feature for AI Voice Customisation Hume, a New York-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm, unveiled a new tool on Monday that will allow users to customise AI voices. Dubbed Voice Control, the new feature is aimed at developers to integrate these voices into their chatbots and other AI-based applications. Instead of offering a large range of voices, the company offers granular control over 10 differe...

World Labs Unveils AI System That Can Generate 3D Interactive Worlds Using an Image World Labs, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup, unveiled its first AI system on Monday. The currently unnamed AI system can generate interactive 3D worlds using an image input. These generated worlds turn the 2D visual asset into explorable 3D scenes where users can navigate using a keyboard and mouse. The AI system is currently in preview and has not been made ...

Nvidia Research Introduces DiffUHaul, an AI Tool That Allows Object Relocation in Images Nvidia researchers introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can relocate objects in an image. Dubbed DiffUHaul, the tool can spatially understand the context of an image to move an object from one place to another without impacting the background or the shape of the image. The unique aspect of this technique is that it is training-free, meaning no pre-...

Hugging Face Introduces Open-Source SmolVLM Vision Language Model Focused on Efficiency Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform, introduced a new vision-focused AI model last week. Dubbed SmolVLM (where VLM is an acronym for vision language model), it is a compact-sized model that is focused on efficiency. The company claims that due to its smaller size and high efficiency, it can be useful for enterprises and AI...

Alibaba Researchers Unveil Marco-o1 AI Model As Another Reasoning-Focused Competitor to OpenAI’s o1 Alibaba recently introduced a reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Marco-o1. The model is similar to the QwQ-32B large language model, which is also optimised for tasks requiring advanced reasoning capabilities, however, one important distinction is that the Marco-o1 is a smaller model and is distilled from the Qwen2-7B-Instruct model.

Proposed Australia Law Would Fine Big Tech Over Digital Competition Australia's centre-left Labor government has targeted Big Tech's influence, and parliament passed a law last week that banned social media for children aged under 16.