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Baidu to offer Ernie Bot service for free as DeepSeek heats up China’s AI market

Baidu’s Ernie Bot service had a user base of 430 million as of November 2024. Photo: Shutterstock

Beijing -based Baidu said users of Ernie Bot’s desktop and mobile versions will gain free access to its Ernie large language models (LLMs) on the back of “continued upgrades and inference cost reductions”, the company said in a statement on Thursday.

The Ernie Bot platform on Thursday launched a function called Deep Search, which has enhanced capabilities in thinking

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Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai hails Apple partnership, says DeepSeek will inspire AI developers

DeepSeek’s innovation in producing cheap-but-high-performing large language models is “quite significant”, the executive said during the World Government Summit. Both Alibaba and DeepSeek are based in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, which has been emerging as a new tech hub . DeepSeek’s models have implications for localised AI, as they require much fewer resources to run.

“They demonstrated that you can use some engineering innovation to drastically lower the cost of training and inference of large language models,”


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Sam 解釋 2 大原因 OpenAI 重大轉向 GPT-5 免費用戶可無限使用

OpenAI 突然公佈重大變更,原定推出的 AI 模型 o3 將被取消,公司未來將專注開發 GPT-5,並將其整合至 ChatGPT 及 API 服務中。行政總裁 Sam Altman 在社交媒體 X 上解釋,公司目標是簡化產品結構,提供更直覺的 AI 服務,減少用戶選擇上的困擾。


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9to5Neural: ChatGPT-5 just ‘months’ away, here’s how it will work

Welcome to 9to5Neural . AI moves fast. We help you keep up. Earlier this week, Elon Musk started a bid to buy OpenAI, prompting Sam Altman to informally decline, but poking back about buying Twitter. Entertaining as that was, the world of AI has started to calm down — WAIT, WHAT?! OpenAI just announced ChatGPT-5, and it will arrive this year?

OpenAI boss Sam Altman has masterfully stolen back the news cycle by pretty much laying out the future of ChatGPT. Altman


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Neural: ChatGPT-5 just ‘months’ away, here’s how it will work

Welcome to Neural . AI moves fast. We help you keep up. Earlier this week, Elon Musk started a bid to buy OpenAI, prompting Sam Altman to informally decline, but poking back about buying Twitter. Entertaining as that was, the world of AI has started to calm down — WAIT, WHAT?! OpenAI just announced ChatGPT-5, and it will arrive this year?

OpenAI boss Sam Altman has masterfully stolen back the news cycle by pretty much laying out the future of ChatGPT. Altman posted what he


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Can DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng stay true to his AI ideals?

Seeing the path Liang Wenfeng chose for DeepSeek, Sam Altman admitted last month that “we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open-source strategy”. Photo: AFP

Almost 20 years ago, when I was a computing undergraduate, my seniors often said that for a good programmer, putting people first was the simplest, most fundamental principle. The software we write, whether for the back end of a complex system or a protocol used only by developers, ultimately serves people.

The recent emergence of R1 , the open-source reasoning model from DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-

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Alibaba’s Qwen powers top 10 open-source models as China AI know-how goes beyond DeepSeek

Qwen’s sway on the development of large language models in the latest Hugging Face rankings reflects the increasing depth of China’s artificial intelligence capabilities. Photo: Shutterstock

The latest Open LLM Leaderboard by Hugging Face showed that all of the top-ranked models were trained and developed on the updated open-source versions of Qwen, part of the Tongyi Qianwen LLM family built by Alibaba’s cloud computing services and AI arm. Hangzhou -based Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
At least seven of the top 10 open
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AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option

AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP patches end up being upstreamed into LLVM proper while AOMP is the staging area for those wanting to have the latest and best experience for Clang C/C++ and Flang Fortran offloading to AMD Instinct/Radeon hardware.

With AOMP 2
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Intel's Newest Open-Source Project Is "Polite Guard"

Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard.

Intel Polite Guard is an open-source natural language processing (NLP) language model for classifying text if it's polite or not.

Intel Polite Guard builds off BERT for text classification and this NLP model will classify text as either being polite, somewhat polite, neural, or impolite. Intel has made their data-sets and source code to Polite Guard open-source on GitHub and Hugging Face. As
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Alibaba’s Qwen AI models enable low-cost DeepSeek alternatives from Stanford, Berkeley

Alibaba’s open-source Qwen2.5 models are increasingly being used by researchers to find ways of training AI models at even lower costs. Photo: Reuters

The race to produce the cheapest top-performing artificial intelligence (AI) model is heating up with a new reasoning model from US computer scientists, including renowned Chinese-American “AI godmother” Li Feifei, that was trained for under US$50 on the back of Alibaba Group Holding ’s open-source technology, following the breakthrough success of China’
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