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Google Chrome Replacing FreeType With Rust-Written Skrifa For Font Handling

The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web.

Skrifa is written by Google engineers in the Rust programming language and aiming for better security than FreeType for font handling within web browsers. Due to FreeType being the primary font processing library across Android, ChromeOS, and Linux, any vulnerabilities affecting it are potentially catastrophic for a web browser when loading remote/unsafe web fonts and more.

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OpenAI o1-pro開放API存取,價格是o1 10倍

OpenAI昨(19)日宣佈 o1-pro模型開放API存取。

OpenAI是在 去年12月公佈 了o1-pro模型,當時僅提供給ChatGPT Pro方案用户存取。 OpenAI説明 o1系列是以強化學習(reinforcement learning)方法訓練,可先思考再回答,而且能執行複雜推理。o1-pro模型


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Tencent Will Launch Hunyuan T1 Inference Model on March 21

Tencent's large language model (LLM) specialist division has announced the imminent launch of their T1 AI inference model. The Chinese technology giant's Hunyuan social media accounts revealed a grand arrival, scheduled to take place on Friday (March 21). A friendly reminder was issued to interested parties, regarding the upcoming broadcast/showcase: "please set aside your valuable time. Let's step into T1 together." Earlier in the week, the Tencent AI team started to tease their "first
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GraalVM Updated For Java 24, Adds Graal Neural Network Profiler For Better Performance

Ahead of the OpenJDK Java 24 release expected in the coming hours today, Oracle already released "GraalVM for JDK 24 Community 24.0" edition.

This high-performance JDK distribution that also supports spinning Java apps into their own standalone binaries and supporting other programming languages continues advancing. GraalVM for JDK 24 picks up more features to enhance not only the Java support but also for Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Node.js.

GraalVM for JDK 24 brings a new generation of machine learning powered
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ollama 0.6.2 Released WIth Support For AMD Strix Halo

The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run Llama 3, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models is out with its newest release. The ollama software makes it easy to leverage the llama.cpp back-end for running a variety of LLMs and enjoying convenient integration with other desktop software.

With today's release of ollama 0.6.2 there is now support for AMD Strix Halo GPUs, a.k.a. the Ryzen AI Max+ laptop /
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Tencent expands AI push with open-source 3D generation tools - Reuters

Tencent expands AI push with open-source 3D generation tools Reuters

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DeepSeek’s success lies in start-up’s singular focus on innovation, AI scientist says

Artificial intelligence scientist Yang Hongxia, the associate dean for global engagement at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, discusses DeepSeek’s success at a forum last week. Photo: Handout

Yang, who serves as associate dean for global engagement at Hong Kong Polytechnic University , said at a forum last Tuesday that the Hangzhou -based company was relatively “free from [commercial] product and business pressures, which are a constant concern” for Big Tech firms.

DeepSeek was purely engaged “in developing AI large models”, she said at the event “DeepSeek and Beyond” held at PolyU.

Her assessment partly echoes the view of
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Baidu launches new AI models, touts superiority to DeepSeek, OpenAI on benchmarks

The logos of Baidu and its AI chatbot Ernie are displayed in this illustration picture taken June 28, 2023. Photo: Reuters

Chinese technology giant Baidu released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models that it touted as stronger than those of DeepSeek and OpenAI based on certain benchmarks, as the large language model (LLM) competition continues to heat up.
Baidu made its latest multimodal foundational model Ernie 4.5 and its first multimodal reasoning model Ernie X1 freely available on Ernie Bot’s
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digiKam 8.6 Released With Working To Better Its AI Integration

The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration.

The digiKam software has already been using AI for automatically detecting faces and with the v8.6 release there are improvements. The face management framework has been rewritten for better performance, reduced false positives with the face detector, and there is a new face classifier.

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OpenAI and Musk agree to fast tracked trial over for-profit shift - Reuters

OpenAI and Musk agree to fast tracked trial over for-profit shift Reuters