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Microsoft’s new rStar-Math technique upgrades small models to outperform OpenAI’s o1-preview at math problems

January 10, 2025
Microsoft is doubling down on the potential of small language models (SLMs) with the unveiling of rStar-Math, a new reasoning technique that can be applied to small models to boost their performance on math problems using reasoning techniques — performance similar to, and in some cases exceeding, that of OpenAI’s o1-preview model. While still in a research phase — as outlined in a paper…
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How Meta’s latest research proves you can use generative AI to understand user intent

January 8, 2025
Meta — parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads and more — runs one of the biggest recommendation systems in the world. In two recently released papers, its researchers have revealed how generative models can be used to better understand and respond to user intent. By looking at recommendations as a generative problem, you can tackle it in new ways that are richer in content…
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Samsung spreads Vision AI across its 2025 TV portfolio

January 6, 2025
For this year’s lineup, Samsung said that AI will come to life in more ways than just great picture quality. The company is introducing AI-backed experiences to make your day simpler, more dynamic, and just plain better. Announced at CES 2025, these experiences will help…
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DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch

January 6, 2025
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3. Available via Hugging Face under the company’s license agreement, the new model comes with 671B parameters but uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to activate only select parameters, in order to handle given tasks accurately…
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Why 2025 will be the year of AI orchestration

January 3, 2025
In the tech world, we like to label periods as the year of (insert milestone here). This past year (2024) was a year of broader experimentation in AI orchestration and, of course, agentic use cases. As 2025 opens, VentureBeat spoke to industry analysts and IT decision-makers…
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Inside the AI agent revolution: How data-driven automation transformed the enterprise in 2024

January 3, 2025
If 2023 was the year of generative AI-powered chatbots and search, 2024 was all about AI agents. What started from Devin earlier this year grew into a full-blown phenomenon, offering enterprises and individuals a way to transform how they work at different levels, from programming and development to personal tasks such as planning and booking tickets for a holiday. Among these wide-ranging…
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