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Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant

When legal research company LexisNexis created its AI assistant Protégé, it wanted to figure out the best way to leverage its expertise without deploying a large model.  Protégé aims to help lawyers, associates and paralegals write and proof legal documents and ensure that anything they cite in complaints and briefs is accurate. However, LexisNexis didn’t want a general legal AI assistant…
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Adobe Sneaks: Transforming Presentations with AI

Today at Adobe’s annual digital innovation conference Summit 2024 in Las Vegas, the company is unveiling Project Slide Wow, a generative AI-driven tool designed to streamline the creation of PowerPoint presentations directly from raw customer data. Presented as part of the…
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Hugging Face submits open-source blueprint, challenging Big Tech in White House AI policy fight

In a Washington policy landscape increasingly dominated by calls for minimal AI regulation, Hugging Face is making a distinctly different case to the Trump administration: open-source and collaborative AI development may be America’s strongest competitive advantage. The AI platform company, which hosts more than 1.5 million public models across diverse domains, has submitted its recommendations…
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Nvidia’s GTC 2025 keynote: 40x AI performance leap, open-source ‘Dynamo’, and a walking Star Wars-inspired ‘Blue’ robot

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage at the SAP Center on Tuesday morning, leather jacket intact and without a teleprompter, to deliver what has become one of the most anticipated keynotes in the technology industry. The GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, self-described by Huang as the “Super Bowl of AI,” arrives at a critical juncture for Nvidia and the broader…
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Baidu delivers new LLMs ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 undercutting DeepSeek, OpenAI on cost — but they’re not open source (yet)

Over the weekend, Chinese web search giant Baidu announced the launch of two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, a multimodal language model and reasoning model, respectively. Baidu claims they offer state-of-the-art performance on a variety of metrics, besting DeepSeek’s non-reasoning V3 and OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 (how do you like the close name match Baidu chose as well?) on several third-party…
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