Intel Powers Ahead with Panther Lake: A New Era of 18A Innovation Intel has unveiled its next-generation processor, Panther Lake, the first to utilize the company’s groundbreaking 18A semiconductor technology. Built at Intel’s newly established Fab 52 facility in Arizona, this processor represents a pivotal leap in performance and efficiency, setting the stage for Intel’s […]
K-AI Rising: South Korea’s Bet to Outthink OpenAI & Google South Korea is ramping up efforts to build its own AI powerhouses, aiming to reduce reliance on OpenAI and Google. The government has pledged ₩530 billion (around $390 million) to support five local companies developing large foundational models. Every six months, funding will be narrowed […]
xAI’s Big Shift: Lays Off 500 Data Annotators to Boost Specialist AI Teams Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has laid off around 500 workers from its data annotation team, the largest division responsible for labeling and contextualizing data to train its Grok chatbot. The affected employees, primarily generalist AI tutors, were notified via email on […]
xAI Breaks the Mold: Musk Open-Sources Grok 2.5 and Promises More In a bold move shaking up the AI landscape, Elon Musk’s company xAI has open-sourced Grok 2.5—the same large language model that powered its chatbot throughout 2024. This marks a significant step toward transparency in AI, offering full model weights to developers and researchers. […]
GPT-5 Lands: Smarter, Faster, but Still Finding Its Footing GPT-5 has arrived, promising sharper reasoning, faster responses, and richer multimodal skills like handling text, images, and audio with ease. OpenAI says it can now “think” more deeply when needed, switching between quick answers and in-depth analysis depending on the question. The update also boosts coding, […]
Musk’s xAI Drops Grok-4 and a Bold $300/Month Plan Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has officially launched Grok-4, its most advanced chatbot yet, positioned as a rival to OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini. Built to integrate seamlessly with Musk’s social platform X (formerly Twitter), Grok-4 is touted to have improved reasoning, faster response times, and […]
Ilya Sutskever Steps Up: New AI Venture Aims for Safe Superintelligence Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, is taking the helm of a new company called Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), focused exclusively on developing safe and aligned superintelligent AI. This move comes as co-founder Daniel Gross exits the company, leaving Sutskever as […]
Meta’s AI Talent Grab: Four More OpenAI Researchers Jump Ship Meta has reportedly continued its aggressive recruitment spree by hiring four more senior researchers from OpenAI—Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi, and Hongyu Ren—to bolster its new “superintelligence” lab, according to The Information and Reuters. The move follows the earlier defections of Trapit Bansal and […]
Tesla Sues Former Engineer for Alleged Theft of Optimus Robot Secrets Tesla has filed a lawsuit against former engineer Zhongjie “Jay” Li, accusing him of stealing trade secrets related to its humanoid robot project, Optimus. According to Tesla, Li downloaded confidential files about advanced robotic hand sensors onto two personal smartphones before resigning in September […]
Google’s AI Edge Gallery Empowers Offline AI on Android Google has introduced the Google AI Edge Gallery, an innovative app that enables Android users to download and run AI models locally without an internet connection. This app allows users to perform tasks such as generating images, answering questions, and writing or editing code directly on […]