The Canadian data and legal giant Thomson Reuters wants to rely less on costly AI from Anthropic — and it turned to a Chinese open-source model to do it. Thomson Reuters launched its first AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday, and it’s based on Snowdon, which was built by “realigning” an open-source Qwen model from the
The market for AI-generated speech models is huge. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more expressive, while companies looking to automate customer service and sales operations need them to be more manageable. Palo Alto-based Fish Audio wants to address all of those use cases with its library of more than 15,000 natural
In his first post on “AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country,” Huang wrote in X. “Open models strengthen security and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.” On Friday, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral and others signed an open letter urging US policymakers not to crack down
Every once in a while, a Chinese company releases a new AI model and Americans freak out. That’s what happened last week when China’s Moonshot AI unveiled the Kimi K3, which surpassed a number of notable benchmarks. By most accounts, the Kimi K3 rivals some leading US models for a fraction of the cost. The
The world’s AI superpowers differ on one key strategy: openness. Chinese leader Xi Jinping shared his philosophy on AI at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Friday. He called for both greater regulation of the technology and its open access. In a list of four remarks, Xi first called for a “principle of
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race. Kimi K3, unveiled Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, at a lower cost. The company plans to release weights for
