AMD’s FSR 4 can now be used in more games that don’t have an official implementation, thanks to the Optiscaler modIt isn’t compatible with all games, as FSR 4 reportedly doesn’t support Vulkan yetPlayers may run into trouble using the mod in anti-cheat gamesThe reception to AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 series GPU launch was mixed…
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After taking the world by storm with the debut of its R1 reasoning model in January, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly looking to maintain the momentum by rushing its new R2 model to market as quickly as possible, Reuters reports.DeepSeek at first planned to launch R2 in early May, but sources familiar with the…
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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…
Alibaba’s new Wan 2.1 text-to-video AI is unbelievable Read More »
Oxford Semantic Technologies, is an example of what Matt Clifford, chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), was thinking about when he drafted the proposals for the government 50-point AI ppportunities action plan. In 2017, three University of Oxford professors – Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Bernardo Cuenca Grau – formed Oxford Semantic…
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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…
This AI is as good as ChatGPT o1, and it was built for under $50 Read More »
Following last weekend’s introduction of the latest large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek, ChatGPT’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rival has topped the Apple App Store for iPhone downloads.The DeepSeek R1 LLM is open source and uses reasoning combined with what the company calls “cold start data”, which means that rather than trawling the internet and…
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OpenAI released its Operator AI agent for ChatGPT on Thursday, which should have been a major milestone for the company and AI development in general. While I wouldn’t pay $200/month to test this early version of Operator, what I saw in the OpenAI demos blew my mind. Operator is miles ahead of Google’s AI agents,…
You’re a $2.8bn storage supplier with flash arrays at the core of your business. How do you do research and development (R&D), test new products, test customer workload issues, and test array products over years-long timescales for issues that only arise as software, network and application changes concatenate and interact? Meanwhile, you are a global…
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Chinese startup DeepSeek took the world by storm this month, and especially in the past few days, with its ChatGPT rivals. The latest is called DeepSeek R1, with DeepSeek published research showing the reasoning model can match ChatGPT o1, OpenAI’s only public reasoning AI model.There’s a big difference between the two. The Chinese developer created…
Developers caught DeepSeek R1 having an ‘aha moment’ on its own during training Read More »
A major security flaw in ChatGPT could allow bad actors to use the API to perform mass DDoS attacks. Researchers have reported the issue to OpenAI and have called upon the company to fix the underlying infrastructure to help cut off access to this potential cyberattack.If you’ve never experienced a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)…
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