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MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source
China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open-source ...
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Agentica Project's Open Source DeepCoder Model Outperforms OpenAI's O1 on Coding Benchmarks
B-Preview, an open source AI coding model based on Deepseek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-14B. The model achieves a 60.6% pass rate on ...
China’s Spy Agencies Are Investing Heavily in A.I., Researchers Say
A new report comes amid rising concern about how China will use new tools to power covert actions, as Western intelligence ...
DeepSeek rival MiniMax says its first AI reasoning model halves compute of R1
The Shanghai-based firm said its open-source M1 model is more efficient in tasks including maths and coding than the popular ...
China’s MiniMax Says Its New AI Reasoning Model Beats DeepSeek
Chinese AI upstart MiniMax released a new large language model, joining a slew of domestic peers inspired to surpass DeepSeek ...
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When AIs bargain, a less advanced agent could cost you
New research shows that in AI-to-AI price negotiations, weaker models often lose out—costing users real money and raising ...
We would like to be DeepSeek in the West, says Essential AI cofounder
Ashish Vaswani, cofounder of Essential AI, emphasises the need for open, collaborative AI development to counter rising ...
Italy regulator probes DeepSeek over false information risks
Italy's antitrust watchdog AGCM said on Monday it had opened an investigation into Chinese artificial intelligence startup ...