Category: AI/ML News

Baidu Inc., China’s largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several vision-related benchmarks despite using a fraction of the computing resources typically required for such systems. The model, dubbed ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, is the latest salvo in an escalating competition among …

Read more “Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini”

Nike’s high-end recovery sneakers are on sale—just in time for ski season.

Imagine you’re watching a movie, in which a character puts a chocolate bar in a box, closes the box and leaves the room. Another person, also in the room, moves the bar from a box to a desk drawer. You, as an observer, know that the treat is now in the drawer, and you also …

Read more “Mind readers: How large language models encode theory-of-mind”

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture also allows developers to extend that support to thousands more. Through a feature called zero-shot in-context learning, users can provide a few paired examples of audio and …

Read more “Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively”

I’m at the Bluetooth speaker. I’m at the power bank. I’m at the combination Bluetooth speaker and power bank.

Robots powered by popular artificial intelligence models are currently unsafe for general purpose real-world use, according to new research from King’s College London and Carnegie Mellon University.

Companies hate to admit it, but the road to production-level AI deployment is littered with proof of concepts (PoCs) that go nowhere, or failed projects that never deliver on their goals. In certain domains, there’s little tolerance for iteration, especially in something like life sciences, when the AI application is facilitating new treatments to markets …

Read more “6 proven lessons from the AI projects that broke before they scaled”

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AI coding, vibe coding and agentic swarm have made a dramatic and astonishing recent market entrance, with the AI Code Tools market valued at $4.8 billion and expected to grow at a 23% annual rate.  Enterprises are grappling with AI coding agents and what do about expensive human coders.  They don’t lack for advice.  OpenAI’s …

Read more “What could possibly go wrong if an enterprise replaces all its engineers with AI?”

An experimental gene-editing therapy developed by Crispr Therapeutics is showing promise for treating heart disease.