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…
Nvidia to open-source Run:ai, the software it acquired for $700M to help companies manage GPUs for AI
January 3, 2025
Nvidia has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a software company that makes it easier for customers to orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and said that it would open-source the software.
The purchase price wasn’t disclosed, but was pegged by reports at $700 million when…
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…
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…
OpenAI’s latest o3 model has achieved a breakthrough that has surprised the AI research community. o3 scored an unprecedented 75.7% on the super-difficult ARC-AGI benchmark under standard compute conditions, with a high-compute version reaching 87.5%.
While the achievement…
Five breakthroughs that make OpenAI’s o3 a turning point for AI — and one big challenge
December 30, 2024
The end of the year 2024 has brought reckonings for artificial intelligence, as industry insiders feared progress toward even more intelligent AI is slowing down. But OpenAI’s o3 model, announced just last week, has sparked a fresh wave of excitement and debate, and…
ChatGPT adds more PC and Mac app integrations, getting closer to piloting your computer
December 30, 2024
OpenAI has expanded the number of applications its desktop apps can work with, including allowing Advanced Voice Mode to work with other apps, and is moving closer to ChatGPT using computers.
The desktop app introduced integrations in November with an initial four applications. During Day 11 of its “12 Days of OpenAI” event, OpenAI announced several new integrated development environments…
The code whisperer: How Anthropic’s Claude is changing the game for software developers
December 24, 2024
The software development world is experiencing its biggest transformation since the advent of open-source coding. Artificial intelligence assistants, once viewed with skepticism by professional developers, have become indispensable tools in the $736.96 billion global…
The 4 biggest AI stories from 2024 and one key prediction for 2025
December 24, 2024
In a Nutshell
In 2024, AI commercialization thrived with new Large Language Models (LLMs) from various companies. OpenAI expanded beyond ChatGPT, open-source AI gained traction, Google’s Gemini series excelled, and agentic AI solutions emerged in enterprises. The…
MRI images are understandably complex and data-heavy.
Because of this, developers training large language models (LLMs) for MRI analysis have had to slice captured images into 2D. But this results in just an approximation of the original image, thus limiting the model’s ability to analyze intricate anatomical structures. This creates challenges in complex cases involving brain tumors, skeletal…