Facebook parent Meta Platforms, a major proponent of open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models with its Llama family, has indicated it would be more “careful” going down the open-source road, a move that contrasts with China’s embrace of open-source. In fact, China has probably found the path to “surpass the US in AI” thanks to the…
The Hangzhou-based firm over the past several weeks released two powerful new AI models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, that were built at a fraction of the cost and computing power that major tech companies muster to build large language models (LLMs) – the technology underpinning generative AI services like ChatGPT. On social media, the AI community…
TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips. The Beijing-based company introduced its closed-source multimodal model Doubao 1.5 Pro on Wednesday, emphasising a “resource-efficient” training approach that it said does not…