Tag: competitive

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Faster inference

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/1/faster-inference/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Faster inference Feedly Summary: Two interesting examples of inference speed as a flagship feature of LLM services today. First, Cerebras announced two new monthly plans for their extremely high speed hosted model service: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month, 1,000 messages a day) and Cerebras Code Max ($200/month, 5,000/day).…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing Google Cloud Setup: Your guided pathway to a secure cloud foundation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/introducing-google-cloud-setup/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing Google Cloud Setup: Your guided pathway to a secure cloud foundation Feedly Summary: Are you ready to unlock the power of Google Cloud and want guidance on how to set up your environment effectively? Whether you’re a cloud novice or part of an experienced team looking to…

  • Slashdot: UK Competition Authority Rains on Microsoft and Amazon Cloud Parade

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/1553241/uk-competition-authority-rains-on-microsoft-and-amazon-cloud-parade?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UK Competition Authority Rains on Microsoft and Amazon Cloud Parade Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of Britain has identified Microsoft and Amazon as holding significant market power in cloud services, raising concerns about business practices that lead to customer “lock-in.”…

  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Meta and Microsoft Investors Cheer an A.I. Spending Bonanza

    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/business/dealbook/meta-microsoft-ai-spending-shares.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Meta and Microsoft Investors Cheer an A.I. Spending Bonanza Feedly Summary: Shares in Microsoft and Meta soared to new highs on Thursday after the tech giants committed to invest billions more on artificial intelligence. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text indicates significant…

  • Slashdot: Amazon Invests In ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows

    Source URL: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/1949202/amazon-invests-in-netflix-of-ai-start-up-fable-which-lets-you-make-your-own-tv-shows?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon Invests In ‘Netflix of AI’ Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The announcement of Fable’s AI-generated TV show service, Showrunner, highlights the innovative use of generative AI in content creation, showcasing its potential to transform media…

  • The Register: Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/firms_are_neglecting_ai_security/ Source: The Register Title: Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed Feedly Summary: IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance… Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China Feedly Summary: Something that has become undeniable this month is that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs. I continue to have a lot of love for Mistral, Gemma and Llama…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Yesterday was Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. Qwen are clearly committed to their new split between reasoning and non-reasoning models (a reversal from Qwen 3 in April), because today they released the new reasoning partner to yesterday’s model: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507. I’m surprised at how poorly this reasoning mode…

  • Slashdot: Zuckerberg Says Meta’s AI Systems Have Begun Improving Themselves, And Developing Superintelligence is Now in Sight

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/1359201/zuckerberg-says-metas-ai-systems-have-begun-improving-themselves-and-developing-superintelligence-is-now-in-sight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Zuckerberg Says Meta’s AI Systems Have Begun Improving Themselves, And Developing Superintelligence is Now in Sight Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mark Zuckerberg’s recent statements on Meta’s AI development underscore the company’s vision for personal superintelligence that empowers individuals rather than automating human jobs. He emphasizes…