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Peter Thiel-Backed Nonprofit Sentient Aims To Be America's DeepSeek, Takes Aim At Closed AI Systems
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 11:47pm | 577Sentient, a San Francisco-based AI development lab backed by Peter Thiel's Founder’s Fund, has unveiled its open-source AI search framework, positioning its work as a response to China's DeepSeek. What Happened: Sentient released its Open Deep Search (ODS) framework, stating that it...
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Sam Altman-Led OpenAI Releases Open-Weight AI Model With Reasoning Capabilities As DeepSeek And Meta Taste Success
Monday, March 31, 2025 - 11:30pm | 890On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company plans to release its new open-weight language model with reasoning capabilities in the coming months. This decision might have been driven by the impressive success of DeepSeek’s R1 model and the growing popularity of Meta Platforms...
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'Historic Win For Crypto:' Court Overturns Treasury Sanctions On Tornado Cash, Associated Token Skyrockets 430%
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 - 2:30am | 954In a big legal win for the cryptocurrency industry, a U.S. appeals court has overturned sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department on popular cryptocurrency mixer, Tornado Cash, causing the price of the associated coin to zoom 430%. What Happened: A three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit...
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This Is What OpenAI's Sam Altman Had To Say On The Future Of Open Source At ChatGPT-Parent
Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 4:18am | 648OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the future of open source in AI development during an “Ask Me Anything” session on social media platform Reddit, hinting at the possibility of ChatGPT-parent open-sourcing more of its work. What Happened: Kylie Robison from The Verge took to X,...
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta's $405B Model Llama 3.1 Has Better Cost Performance Than OpenAI's ChatGPT: This Is An 'Inflection Point In The Industry'
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 10:03pm | 699Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said that his company’s $405 billion model, Llama 3.1, has “better cost performance” compared to leading closed models, possibly referring to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. What Happened: During Meta’s second-...
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Mark Zuckerberg Gets Triggered By Closed AI Models At SIGGRAPH 2024, Drops F-Bomb While Talking With Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'There Goes Our Broadcast Opportunity'
Monday, July 29, 2024 - 11:01pm | 763On Monday, at SIGGRAPH 2024, Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang engaged in a spirited discussion about the future of artificial intelligence, which culminated in a jacket swap. What Happened: During the...
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Meta Platforms AI Ambitions Soar With Llama 3.1: An 'Inflection Point In The Industry'
Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 8:44am | 599Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) is making waves again, this time with its latest AI advancements. JPMorgan analyst Doug Anmuth highlights Meta’s release of Llama 3.1 and its expanding AI initiatives as a clear indicator of the company’s soaring ambitions in the artificial intelligence...
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Musk's xAI Releases Its AI Model Grok To The Open Source Community, But With A Small Tweak
Sunday, March 17, 2024 - 9:59pm | 774Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, has made its large language model, Grok, open source, allowing entrepreneurs, programmers, or companies to use the model for their own purposes — but with an alteration. What Happened: In a blog post on Sunday, xAI announced that Grok’s...
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Meta Steps Up AI Game By Open-Sourcing I-JEPA — Its 'Human-Like' Image Creation Model
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 - 2:58am | 493Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has released a “human-like” artificial intelligence image creation mode, claiming a new era of creating accurate image analysis and completion. What Happened: In line with Zuckerberg’s previous statement that Meta plans to...
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How Open Source 'Can Become The Default' In Financial Services Collaboration
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 3:26pm | 611The finance industry is going through a technological revolution — sometimes in fits and starts. Amid the waves of change that have come with the advent of mobile, cloud and blockchain technology, a group of industry players have embraced open source technology as an accelerator of...