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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 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 ...
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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 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 ...
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RAG to riches - coding a solution to AI’s privacy problem
Zoho's Sridhar Vembu argues that while DeepSeek has democratized AI development, the real race now is building secure, ...
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How DeepSeek Has Transformed the Global AI Landscape
China’s AI upstart DeepSeek shook the tech industry and stock markets earlier this year by proving to be amazingly capable despite accessing relatively limited resources, such as chips. It has gone on ...
AI misuse in Indian colleges and how professors are arresting the situation
Some professors are upskilling themselves and advocating responsible, conscious use of AI. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Rethinking AI: DeepSeek’s playbook shakes up the high-spend, high-compute paradigm
DeepSeek's advancements were inevitable, but the company brought them forward a few years earlier than would have been ...