Good morning, AI enthusiasts. China’s AI acceleration is back, with tech giant Baidu launching two powerful AI models at just 1% the worth of OpenAI’s GPT-4.5, and half of the worth of DeepSeek’s R1.With...
Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI's former CTO just unveiled her secretive recent AI enterprise — and she or he's bringing some serious talent along. With experts from top AI labs and a daring open-science...
The headlines keep coming. DeepSeek's models have been difficult benchmarks, setting latest standards, and making a whole lot of noise. But something interesting just happened within the AI research scene that can also be...
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.Today is our last email before we take our team-wide week-long holiday break (our first break in nearly two years — crazy!).So within the spirit of rest and leisure, we have got...
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.Chinese tech giant Alibaba just entered the reasoning race in an enormous way — with a brand new open o1 rival that matches the industry leader’s capabilities.Open-source AI is officially competing with Silicon...
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.Did an AI infusion just reignite the old Windows vs. Mac rivalry? Microsoft just unveiled Copilot+ PCs, with features that inch closer to ever-present AI assistants — and put major pressure on...
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.The AI world anxiously awaits the general public arrival of OpenAI’s Sora — but a Chinese firm’s newly released model is already kicking the text-to-video race into high gear. Kuaishou’s KLING is here,...
In February, Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan said on Weibo that “China needs its own OpenAI.” The Chinese entrepreneur is now inching closer to his dream as his nascent startup Baichuan Intelligence rolled out its...