Chinese AI start-up Zhipu AI said it would step up efforts next year in the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) while continuing to open source its AI models after its initial public offering. In 2026 “we’re going to contribute more substantially to the AGI journey,” Zheng Qinkai, a researcher at the company, which markets…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI, a start-up valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by Chinese tech giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, has presented another David-vs-Goliath story after creating an open-source model that “set new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding and agent capabilities”. The new reasoning model, Kimi K2 Thinking, was the most…
TikTok parent ByteDance has pulled the plug on US technology firm Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models on its Singapore-based coding app Trae after the American AI firm began restricting services to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world. Trae confirmed in a post published to its official Discord channel on Wednesday that it had discontinued access…
Last year, startup founder Harpaul Sambhi made an unusual request to his wealth manager: He asked to have 10% of his portfolio returned to him. It wasn’t for a flashy sports car or a down payment on a house. Sambhi had something different in mind: a contest. He wanted to pit his human wealth manager…
Former British prime minister Rishi Sunak will take up senior advisory roles at US companies Microsoft and Anthropic — an artificial intelligence startup — according to a UK government document published Thursday. Sunak will be a part-time senior adviser at Microsoft, which will involve “providing high-level strategic perspectives on macro-economic and geopolitical trends”, according to…
Some young Chinese writers are said to be “in a state of panic” over rapid advances in artificial intelligence tools like DeepSeek, as they question whether the emerging technology is a blessing or a curse. The debate was one of the key themes at a two-day conference held in Suzhou in late September – “Border…
Apple Inc. has created a ChatGPT-style iPhone application to support the development of a major overhaul of its voice assistant, Siri, expected to launch next year, according to sources familiar with the matter, reported Bloomberg. Veritas: Internal Testing Tool The app, reportedly known internally as Veritas—Latin for “truth”—allows Apple employees to test new AI-driven features…
DeepSeek has revealed details about the risks posed by its artificial intelligence models for the first time, noting that open-sourced models are particularly susceptible to being “jailbroken” by malicious actors. The Hangzhou-based start-up said it evaluated its models using industry benchmarks as well as its own tests in a peer-reviewed article published in the academic…
Chinese AI DeepSeek model Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has revealed the cost of training its R1 model, a figure that is significantly lower than those reported by its US rivals. After launch, the DeepSeek R1 model stood out for its cost-efficient development and its open-source nature, offering unlimited free usage to a wide audience. Its…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has issued a warning in relation to the US AI chips. Speaking at the Axios AI+ DC Summit, the Anthropic CEO has urged the US government to again consider its plans to allow chipmakers Nvidia and AMD to continue selling their advanced AI chips to China. Amodie’s AI startup is backed…