The Alibaba Qwen team has introduced Qwen-VLo, a new addition to its Qwen model family, designed to unify multimodal understanding and generation within a single framework. Positioned as a powerful creative engine, Qwen-VLo enables users to generate, edit, and refine high-quality visual content from text, sketches, and commands—in multiple languages and through step-by-step scene construction….
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities. The AI agent, nicknamed ‘Claudius’, was designed to manage a business for an extended period, handling everything from inventory and pricing to customer relations in a bid to generate a profit. While the experiment proved unprofitable, it offered…
Google has introduced Gemma 3n, a new addition to its family of open models, designed to bring large multimodal AI capabilities to edge devices. Built from the ground up with a mobile-first design philosophy, Gemma 3n can process and understand text, images, audio, and video on-device, without relying on cloud compute. This architecture represents a…
Leading AI chatbots are reproducing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda and censorship when questioned on sensitive topics. According to the American Security Project (ASP), the CCP’s extensive censorship and disinformation efforts have contaminated the global AI data market. This infiltration of training data means that AI models – including prominent ones from Google, Microsoft, and…
Salesforce Agentforce 3 aims to tackle what many businesses have been struggling with: actually seeing what their AI agents are up to. Since its debut back in October 2024, Agentforce has been racking up some wins across a variety of sectors. Engine managed to slash customer case handling times by 15 percent, while 1-800Accountant handed…
The DeepSeek Researchers just released a super cool personal project named ‘nano-vLLM‘, a minimalistic and efficient implementation of the vLLM (virtual Large Language Model) engine, designed specifically for users who value simplicity, speed, and transparency. Built entirely from scratch in Python, nano-vLLM distills the essence of high-performance inference pipelines into a concise, readable codebase of…
With the frequent release of new large language models (LLMs), there is a persistent quest to minimize repetitive errors, enhance robustness, and significantly improve user interactions. As AI models become integral to more sophisticated computational tasks, developers are consistently refining their capabilities, ensuring seamless integration within diverse, real-world scenarios. Mistral AI has released Mistral Small…
‘The OpenAI Files’ report, assembling voices of concerned ex-staff, claims the world’s most prominent AI lab is betraying safety for profit. What began as a noble quest to ensure AI would serve all of humanity is now teetering on the edge of becoming just another corporate giant, chasing immense profits while leaving safety and ethics…
AI has moved beyond experimentation to become a core part of business operations, but deployment challenges persist. Research from Zogby Analytics, on behalf of Prove AI, shows that most organisations have graduated from testing the AI waters to diving in headfirst with production-ready systems. Despite this progress, businesses are still grappling with basic challenges around…
Ericsson’s Cognitive Network Solutions has joined forces with AWS to develop AI technologies for self-healing mobile networks. Behind every text message and video call lies a complex system that telecom companies spend billions maintaining. This partnership between Ericsson and AWS aims to make those networks not just smarter, but virtually self-sufficient. Jean-Christophe Laneri, VP and…