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Adopting agentic AI? Build AI fluency, redesign workflows, don’t neglect supervision

The work ecosystem as we know it is about to change, with agents — the “next frontier of generative AI” — set to augment human decision-making for good. At the beginning of the year, the BCG AI Radar global survey said two-thirds of companies are already exploring AI agents. We’re approaching a new norm where AI systems can process our natural-language prompts and autonomously make…
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New open source AI company Deep Cogito releases first models and they’re already topping the charts

Deep Cogito, a new AI research startup based in San Francisco, officially emerged from stealth today with Cogito v1, a new line of open source large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned from Meta’s Llama 3.2 and equipped with hybrid reasoning capabilities — the ability to answer quickly and immediately, or “self-reflect” like OpenAI’s “o” series and DeepSeek R1. The company aims to push…
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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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LLMs Power AI: Exploring Transformer Architecture

Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image…
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Cohere just made it way easier for companies to create their own AI language models

Artificial intelligence company Cohere unveiled significant updates to its fine-tuning service on Thursday, aiming to accelerate enterprise adoption of large language models. The enhancements support Cohere’s latest Command R 08-2024 model and provide businesses with greater control and visibility into the process of customizing AI models for specific tasks. The updated offering introduces…
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