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What are open weight AI models and why are they dividing Big Tech?AI models learn by adjusting billions of numerical parameters during training. These parameters, called weights, help the model understand ...
What is AI model distillation and why is it becoming a US-China flashpoint?Long regarded as a standard tool of AI research, distillation is now at the centre of a growing dispute over whether advanced AI capabiliti...
What is model distillation? The AI technique at the centre of the US-China technology battleModel distillation, a technique that trains smaller AI models using outputs from more powerful systems, has become a key issue in the US-Ch...
OpenAI cuts prices on smaller models as businesses scrutinise AI spendThe ChatGPT maker lowered the cost of its smaller GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80% and its mid-tier Terra by 20%, while leaving the price of its b...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's warning on AI: Companies that 'outsource thinking' may not surviveMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella cautions businesses about AI provider dependency. He urges companies to retain control over their data and AI o...
GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work lift OpenAI’s July ARR over Q2OpenAI's revenue growth has surpassed second-quarter levels, driven by new product launches. The company is expanding its customer base to ...
Moonshot AI closes $3.5 billion funding round to hit $35 billion valuationThe Beijing-based startup managed to secure far more than the $1 billion to $2 billion it initially targeted, people familiar with the matt...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says company never backed open-weight AI banAmodei addressed the issue in a blog post on Monday, just days after Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and several other technology compani...
Nvidia forms industry alliance for open AI security after Hugging Face hackThe Open Secure AI Alliance, with founding members including Adobe, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face and Dell Technologies, follows a public let...
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang unite behind one AI vision: Why America's biggest tech billionaires are calling for open-weight AI modelsA coalition of 25 leading technology companies and organizations has urged US policymakers to support open-weight AI models, arguing they a...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang backs open AI models, coalition for safety and innovationA broad coalition of companies and institutions, including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Hugging Face, and the Linux Foundation signed a letter,...
Anthropic rolls out Opus 5 AI model in efficiency upgradeThe San Francisco-based lab said the new Claude AI model was well suited for daily office and computer programming tasks.
The second Chinese AI shock rattles US as China narrows the raceChina's Kimi K3 AI model has emerged, significantly narrowing the technological gap with American frontier systems. This development has pr...
Top US tech players back open-weights AI, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang shares letter in debut X postLeading American technology firms have jointly endorsed open-weight artificial intelligence models. They believe this approach is crucial f...
As AI grows more powerful, a US-China feud threatens safety effortsUS warnings of sanctions targeting Chinese AI companies could jeopardize critical safety conversations. The rise in allegations of intellec...
The Hugging Face breach and AI's cybersecurity reckoningAn advanced AI agent from OpenAI breached Hugging Face's systems last week. This autonomous intrusion accessed internal data and cloud cred...
ETtech Explainer: Why Moonshot AI paused Kimi K3 subscriptions within days of launchChinese AI startup Moonshot AI has stopped new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model. This decision follows a sharp surge in user demand for ...
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, says it trails only Anthropic's Fable 5Alibaba has launched its new Qwen3.8-Max-Preview AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters. The preview version is available through Alibaba's ...
China's Moonshot unveils world's largest open AI model, closing in on US rivalsThe launch, which comes a month after Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models were abruptly withdrawn by the U.S. government due to security co...
AI startup Thinking Machines launches an open-weight AI modelNamed Inkling, the model is open-weight, meaning users can download, run and customize the underlying systems, unlike proprietary, closed-...