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Italy's iGenius launches Nvidia-powered AI language model for highly regulated industries - Reuters

Italy's iGenius launches Nvidia-powered AI language model for highly regulated industries Reuters

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Chinese AI start-up MiniMax releases low-cost open-source models that rival top chatbots

MiniMax has released new open-source AI models weeks after domestic rival DeepSeek impressed the industry with its own open-source model. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up MiniMax has launched a new series of open-source models, intensifying the competition among mainland technology firms to deliver cost-effective AI systems that can rival top offerings from US competitors.
The Shanghai-based company on Tuesday unveiled the MiniMax-01 large language model (LLM) family, which includes a general-purpose foundational model, the MiniMax-Text-01, and the multimodal
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libvirt 11.0 Released For Open-Source Virtualization API

Libvirt 11.0 was christened today as the newest version of this open-source Virtualization API for managing VMs on Linux and other platforms while supporting KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and other hypervisors.

Libvirt 11.0 adds support for vLANs on standard Linux host bridges to the QEMU/LXC/network code as well as now supporting vLAN tagging and trunking on network interfaces connected to a standard Linux host bridge. Libvirt 11.0 also introduces support for direct and extended
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OpenAI rolls out assistant-like feature 'Tasks' to take on Alexa, Siri - Reuters

OpenAI rolls out assistant-like feature 'Tasks' to take on Alexa, Siri Reuters

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Meta accused of training its AI using pirated content from torrents

A new day, a new controversy around artificial intelligence. This time, Meta has been accused of using pirated content from torrents to train its large language model (LLM) Llama, which powers Meta AI. The case was one of the first copyright lawsuits filed against a tech company for training AI.

As reported by , Meta was hit with a lawsuit in 2023 for allegedly training Llama, the company’s LLM, with pirated content. The case became known as “Kadrey et al. v.

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本地科企 Votee AI 採 AWS 平台開發廣東話大模型 冀傳承語言背後豐富文化

Gen AI 大模型由去年開始成為科技界熱話。由去年以主力處理英文的大模型,到今年陸續有不同廠商開發書寫中文以至廣東話大模型。

於香港成立 10 載的科企 Votee AI (下稱 Votee) 曾為金融業及不同上市公司服務,累積豐富 AI 案例項目

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OpenBLAS 0.3.29 Brings Auto-Detection For Intel Granite Rapids, Apple M4 & AMD Zen 5

OpenBLAS 0.3.29 is out today as a big update for this widely-used, open-source implementation for Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms and LAPACK APIs.

OpenBLAS 0.3.29 brings improved thread scaling for multi-threaded SBGEMV and TRTRI, various multi-threaded fixes, improved documentation, and other general fixes.

When it comes to CPU/platform-specific work, there is initial support for detecting Apple M4 SoCs, various ARM64 performance optimizations, a number of x8
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User runs an AI model on an Xbox 360 — 3-core PowerPC with 512 MB memory handles an AI model based on llama2.c

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X (formerly Twitter) user Andrei David just installed and ran an AI model based on Andrej Karpathy’s llama2.c on a nearly 20-year-old Xbox 360 console. Despite its age, David used a bootloader to load the model onto the old console and run a ‘Sleep Joe said’ prompt. According to the post, EXO Lab’s successful attempt to run Llama on a Windows 98 PC inspired David to experiment.

Although the AI

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VLC media player will soon offer AI-generated subtitles in multiple languages

VLC is one of the most popular multiplatform media players, and VideoLAN – the company behind the app – has been working on a major update. Soon, users will have access to AI-generated subtitles in multiple languages, even offline.

VideoLAN teased the technology at CES 2025 and shared some videos of it in action. Essentially, VLC will use AI to automatically generate subtitles for videos. The AI will also be able to translate the subtitles into other languages, all offline and in real time.


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VLC demoes AI-generated subtitles as it hits new milestone of 6 billion downloads

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VideoLAN, the nonprofit organization behind VLC Media Player, announced in a presentation at CES 2025 that the popular open-source multimedia tool has reached a milestone of 6 billion downloads. While this achievement is quite significant, the figure may be conservative, as the company likely excluded download numbers from third-party sources. Along with that, the developers at VideoLAN announced its future plans with the showcase of their next big feature: AI-powered subtitles and real-time translation for

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