Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best

Chinese companies continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. This week, MiniMaxa startup supported by Alibaba and Tencent which has raised approximately $850 million in venture capital and is valued at over $2.5 billion, made his debut three new models: MiniMax-Text-01, MiniMax-VL-01 and…

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Nvidia Joins $4 Million Seed Round In Taiwan’s AI-Powered Simulation Startup MetAI

(Right to left) Daniel Yu, Renton Hsu and Dave Liu, co-founders of MetAI. MetAI Technology MetAI Technologya Taipei-based startup that makes 3D simulations for the logistics and manufacturing industries announced Wednesday that it has raised $4 million from investors including billionaire Jensen Huang’s chip giant Nvidia. Other investors who joined the seed round include Taiwanese…

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Embedding LLM Circuit Breakers Into AI Might Save Us From A Whole Lot Of Ghastly Troubles

Moving from everyday circuit breakers to specialized AI circuit breakers embedded into large … [+] language models (LLMs). getty In today’s column, I explore an emerging trend of embedding specialized circuit breakers within generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Is this innovative trend a good idea? Yes, it decidedly is. These being-added computational circuit…

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