The global AI debate often fixates on models: Which ones are faster, which ones can do more, which ones are cheaper. The prominence of low-cost systems from China, like those from DeepSeek, z.ai, and Moonshot, has sharpened this focus, suggesting a narrowing gap with U.S. leaders. The rise of these brilliant, cheap AI models diverts
As co-founder Grace Li tells it, her company started a few weeks before graduation in 2025, with a handful of college friends trying to make their AI game engine work. The models could make functional games, but none of the games were fun — which raised the interesting question, how can you tell if a
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
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded Monday afternoon to murmurs in the industry that his company somehow supports the U.S. government’s efforts to ban Chinese open-weight models, or possibly open-weight models in general. “Anyone who has read my previous writings should know that I do not consider such bans to be a useful measure,
Lea Feiger: Yes. In recent days this has come up. You say, “I’ve been listening to them.” It’s like, “Oops, Zoë, your bill is ready.” And I say, “What’s going on there?” Zoe Schiffer: You’ve been listening to them. It’s embarrassing. That’s embarrassing. Lea Feiger: It’s something wild. No, honestly, if it’s making your life
Two from OpenAI Cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a sandbox this week and hacked AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test. Additionally, this week researchers shed light on newly identified malware that is exploiting blind spots in AI software development infrastructure to capture logins and other sensitive data,