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Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages
Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages
Alibaba Group Holding's Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model is powering the world's top 10 open-source large language models (LLMs), according to collaborative machine-learning platform and community Hugging Face. The latest Open LLM Leaderboard by Hugging Face showed that all of the top-ranked models were trained and developed on the updated open-source versions of Qwen, part of the Tongyi Qianwen LLM family built by Alibaba's cloud computing services and AI arm. Hangzhou-based Alibaba owns
Investment in data centres and cloud infrastructure is still needed despite DeepSeek challenging the cost efficiency of large AI models, Baidu CEO Robin Li said on Tuesday. Li's comments come as Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has gained global attention for developing language models that match the performance of leading systems like OpenAI's GPT while using significantly less computing power, raising questions about the necessity of massive AI infrastructure spending.
DeepSeek just proved you don't need billions to build powerful AI--so why are tech giants doubling down on spending?
After luxury companies invested billions in China’s market, the country’s consumers turned to new pricey purchases.
Ex-Meta employees have said they weren’t low performers, yet were laid off anyway.
“We’re living in a different world,” said Harry Enten on “News Central.”
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King Abdullah II of Jordan flattered and surprised President Donald Trump on Tuesday in a dance to deflect from the president’s Gaza takeover bid, which the monarch has publicly said he opposes. Abdullah said he would, however, facilitate a move to take 2,000 children in Gaza “that are either cancer children or in a very ill state to Jordan as quickly as possible.” Trump expressed astonishment and gratitude—and hope that the fig leaf would lead to broader Arab support for his controversial plan
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is proposing an exchange of seized territory with Russia as part of any potential negotiations to end the war. Ukraine holds control of a small pocket of Russian territory, parts of Kursk Oblast, captured during a surprise incursion in August. Zelensky, in an interview with The Guardian, said he planned to…
The mother of Elon Musk’s 4-year-old son criticized his inclusion in an Oval Office press conference Tuesday with his father and Donald Trump. Musician Grimes, who shares three children with her former partner Musk, wrote on X in response to a post about how polite their son appeared: “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.” The 4-year-old was seen at various points mimicking his father, picking his nose, and whisperin
Pep Guardiola had a plan with his Norwegian striker at the centre, but it was no match for Carlo Ancelotti’s aura
Singer Makiyo shares update on Dee's well-being while being mindful of the family's privacy
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Xi Jinping built the smart city of Xiongan as a showcase for China’s technological prowess. But WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng finds it remains largely empty, raising questions about the limits of Xi’s rule.
"By the end of the experiment, one of the 'ordinary-looking' women was crying."
Trevor Hughes had just returned home from work and just wanted to go inside and sleep but couldn't park because a man was blocking his driveway, police allege
Gunman holds family of six hostage for 45 minutes after shooting janitor
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