Tag: competitors

  • The Register: Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/meta_llama4_cheating/ Source: The Register Title: Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank Feedly Summary: Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so Meta submitted a specially crafted, non-public variant of its Llama 4 AI model to an online benchmark that may have unfairly…

  • Wired: The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/stanford-study-global-artificial-intelligence-index/ Source: Wired Title: The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US Feedly Summary: New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights new research…

  • Slashdot: In ‘Milestone’ for Open Source, Meta Releases New Benchmark-Beating Llama 4 Models

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/06/182233/in-milestone-for-open-source-meta-releases-new-benchmark-beating-llama-4-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: In ‘Milestone’ for Open Source, Meta Releases New Benchmark-Beating Llama 4 Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the launch of four new Llama Large Language Models (LLMs) that reinforce Meta’s commitment to open source AI. These models, particularly Llama 4 Scout and…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ahmed Al-Dahle

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/5/llama-4/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ahmed Al-Dahle Feedly Summary: The Llama series have been re-designed to use state of the art mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and natively trained with multimodality. We’re dropping Llama 4 Scout & Llama 4 Maverick, and previewing Llama 4 Behemoth. 📌 Llama 4 Scout is highest performing small…

  • Slashdot: Google Launches Sec-Gemini v1 AI Model To Improve Cybersecurity Defense

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/04/2035236/google-launches-sec-gemini-v1-ai-model-to-improve-cybersecurity-defense?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google Launches Sec-Gemini v1 AI Model To Improve Cybersecurity Defense Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has launched Sec-Gemini v1, a specialized AI model aimed at enhancing cybersecurity. This model integrates various threat intelligence sources and reportedly outperforms existing solutions on key benchmarks, focusing on critical…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/gemini-25-pro-pricing/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently the top model on LM Arena and, from my own testing, a superb model for OCR, audio transcription and long-context coding. You can now pay for it! The new…

  • Slashdot: MCP: the New ‘USB-C For AI’ That’s Bringing Fierce Rivals Together

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/208221/mcp-the-new-usb-c-for-ai-thats-bringing-fierce-rivals-together?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: MCP: the New ‘USB-C For AI’ That’s Bringing Fierce Rivals Together Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), developed by Anthropic, signifies a significant advancement in the AI assistant sector by allowing different AI models to seamlessly connect to external…

  • Slashdot: DeepMind is Holding Back Release of AI Research To Give Google an Edge

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/1648250/deepmind-is-holding-back-release-of-ai-research-to-give-google-an-edge?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepMind is Holding Back Release of AI Research To Give Google an Edge Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google DeepMind has altered its publication policy to maintain a competitive advantage in AI research, introducing stringent vetting processes that hinder the release of studies. This shift, aimed…