Meta researchers have unveiled SeamlessM4T, a pioneering multilingual and multitask model that facilitates seamless translation and transcription across both speech and text. The internet, mobile devices, social media, and communication platforms have ushered in an era where access to multilingual content has reached unprecedented levels. SeamlessM4T aims to realise the...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has explored the opportunities and challenges brought about by AI with regards to global energy. Training and deploying sophisticated AI models occur within vast, power-hungry data centres. A “typical AI-focused...
Baidu has launched its latest foundation AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, and is offering them free for individuals through ERNIE Bot. The company says that it aims to “push the boundaries of multimodal...
CrowdStrike commissioned a survey of 1,022 cybersecurity professionals worldwide to assess their views on generative AI (GenAI) adoption and its implications. The findings reveal enthusiasm for GenAI’s potential to bolster defences against increasingly sophisticated threats,...
Ant Group is relying on Chinese-made semiconductors to train artificial intelligence models to reduce costs and lessen dependence on restricted US technology, according to people familiar with the matter. The Alibaba-owned company has used chips...
Nvidia’s ‘Cambridge-1’ is now operational and utilising AI and simulation to advance research in healthcare. The UK’s most powerful supercomputer and among the world’s top fifty, Cambridge-1 was announced by the technology company in October...
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has departed Google after an eight-year stint at the company. Suleyman co-founded AI giant DeepMind alongside Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg in 2010 before it was acquired by Google in 2014...
Duolingo is restructuring parts of its workforce as it shifts toward becoming an “AI-first” company, according to an internal memo from CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn that was later shared publicly on the company’s...
Four major US firms have announced plans to invest a combined £6.3 billion in UK data infrastructure. The announcement, made during the International Investment Summit, was welcomed by Technology Secretary Peter Kyle as a “vote...
Mistral AI has pulled back the curtain on Magistral, their first model specifically built for reasoning tasks. Magistral arrives in two flavours: a 24B parameter open-source version called Magistral Small that anyone can tinker with,...