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DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance

DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management focused on releasing high-performance open-source tech, has unveiled the R1-Lite-Preview, its latest reasoning-focused large language model (LLM), available for now exclusively through DeepSeek Chat, its web-based AI chatbot. Known for its innovative contributions to the open-source AI ecosystem, DeepSeek’s…
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Microsoft brings transactional databases to Fabric to boost AI agents

For years, enterprise companies have been plagued by data silos separating transactional systems from analytical tools—a divide that has hampered AI applications, slowed real-time decision-making, and driven up costs with complex integrations. Today at its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a major step toward breaking this cycle. The tech giant revealed that Azure SQL, its flagship…
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OpenText expands AI capabilities to improve enterprise productivity and ROI

There is a lot of hype and a lot of promise surrounding AI and what it can bring to an enterprise. For enterprise software vendor OpenText, moving beyond the hype to be able to actually demonstrate the value of AI is now an everyday mission. Today, OpenText announced its latest set of platform updates with the Cloud Editions (CE) 24.4 release. OpenText has an expansive portfolio of enterprise…
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Why AI won’t make you a better writer

The literary world is rife with constant controversy, from the Bad Art Friend to the BookForum comeuppance of long-lauded critic Lauren Oyler. A recent point of contention, however, is no interpersonal drama or nitpicky review. Rather, it’s a Zendesk article from the minds behind NaNoWrimo — National Novel Writing Month — stating that the organization will permit AI usage as part of…
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