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What happened when a tech journalist experimented with AI on a PC?

10 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, chatbot, Computer, Google, IBM, Intel, Meta, Tech / By / Leave a Comment

Over the past few months, the editorial team at Computer Weekly’s French sister title, LeMagIT, has been evaluating different versions of several free downloadable large language models (LLMs) on personal machines. These LLMs currently include Google’s Gemma 3, Meta’s Llama 3.3, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, several versions of Mistral (Mistral, Mistral Small 3.1, Mistral Nemo,…

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Podcast: S4Capital’s Martin Sorrell on AI and the enterprise

9 minutes of reading / Adobe, agile, AI, Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Cisco, Computer, copywriting, fintech, Google, Meta, Netflix, Tech, Tencent / By

Sir Martin – founder of what became the world’s largest advertising company, WPP – is now chairman of the board of S4Capital, which aims at digitally native delivery of services.He talks about the use cases in advertising and marketing, limited currently, but where activities like planning and buying media will likely become automated by AI…

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Alibaba’s new Wan 2.1 text-to-video AI is unbelievable

4 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, Git, GitHub, iPhone, open source, Tech / By

One of the brilliant ideas that helped DeepSeek go viral was the Chinese company’s decision to make it open-source. That meant anyone could install DeepSeek AI on their computer for free without worrying about the official DeepSeek apps for iPhone or Android.Well-known Chinese giant Alibaba is following in DeepSeek’s footsteps with a different type of…

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AI like ChatGPT o1 and DeepSeek R1 might cheat to win a game

4 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, ChatGPT, Tech / By

Palisade Research recently detailed a ChatGPT experiment in which a reasoning model was told to play chess against a more powerful opponent and win. Rather than attempt to beat the stronger opponent, ChatGPT o1 tried to hack the system. This forced the opponent to concede the game, and the AI achieved its goal.Fast-forward to mid-February…

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Alibaba will censor Apple Intelligence in China

2 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, Apple, Baidu, Cloud, iCloud, Intel, iPad, iPhone, Tech / By

With a deal between Apple and Alibaba now official, Bloomberg brings more details about this partnership. The publication explains how Apple Intelligence will actually work in China compared to the rest of the world, when this platform is expected to launch, and how Apple’s other partner will handle some AI tasks.According to the report, several…

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AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of

5 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, ChatGPT, Meta, Tech / By

Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a “red line” humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare…

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Apple reportedly chooses Alibaba over DeepSeek to bring iPhone AI to China

2 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, Apple, Baidu, ChatGPT, Google, Intel, iPhone, Tech, Tencent / By

With the recent DeepSeek hype, it looked almost natural that Apple could choose this LLM to power its Apple Intelligence platform in China. However, iPhone AI will be handled by a well-known Apple partner, Alibaba.Since Apple is required to work with a local Chinese company to develop AI models for its iPhone models sold in…

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This AI is as good as ChatGPT o1, and it was built for under $50

4 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, Apple, ChatGPT, Git, GitHub, Google, Intel, Tech / By

DeepSeek R1 stunned the world last week as its developers explained they could train an open-source reasoning AI as good as ChatGPT o1 at a fraction of the cost. Suddenly, anyone could create powerful AI models with the right combination of software innovations and decent hardware. The DeepSeek research implied that the focus wouldn’t be…

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Interview: Bruno Marie-Rose, CIO, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

9 minutes of reading / 5G, Alibaba, compliance, Computer, e-commerce, GDPR, IT strategy, Tech / By

You know the technology behind the Olympic and Paralympic Games is in good hands when it’s run by a former athletics world record holder and three-time Olympian. Bruno Marie-Rose, chief information and technology officer of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is not your average digital leader. He speaks to…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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