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New Zealand reviews its aid to Kiribati after the Pacific island nation snubs an official's visit
New Zealand reviews its aid to Kiribati after the Pacific island nation snubs an official's visit
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
Alibaba Group Holding added to its cloud computing service more artificial intelligence (AI) models from DeepSeek, as the Hangzhou-based technology giant rejected speculation that it planned to invest in the hot start-up based in the same city. Alibaba's cloud computing and AI unit is offering six new DeepSeek models through its large language model (LLM) service platform Bailian, according to a WeChat post from Alibaba Cloud on Sunday. The share price of Alibaba, owner of the South China Mornin
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
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…
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The mother of Elon Musk’s four-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 four-year-old was seen at various points mimicking his father, picking his nose, and whi
Widespread anti-regime protests erupted across Iran on Sunday night as the Islamic Republic marked its 46th anniversary amid growing anger towards the clerics in power.
"By the end of the experiment, one of the 'ordinary-looking' women was crying."
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone who has.When Larissa Williams received a text message from an unknown number asking if she was taking new clients, she had no idea what the person was referring to. After a couple minutes of texting back and forth trying to understand what was going on, Williams was led to lyla.ch, a website commonly used by escorts and sex workers. Williams opened the site and was confr
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