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AI, chinese ai, deepseek-r1, TC

DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under an MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially without restrictions. According to DeepSeek, R1 beats […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/

AI, AnyVision, Computer Vision, Metropolis

Confirmed: AI vision startup Metropolis acquires Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Metropolis, an AI-powered parking platform, has acquired Oosto, the controversial computer vision company that used to be known as AnyVision. TechCrunch […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/sources-ai-vision-startup-metropolis-is-buying-oosto-formerly-known-as-anyvision-for-just-125m/

AI, ai benchmarks, benchmarking, frontiermath

AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI

Posted on 20/01/2025 by ManageNow.Cloud

20
Jan

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community. Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research and grantmaking foundation, revealed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported the creation of FrontierMath. […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-benchmarking-organization-criticized-for-waiting-to-disclose-funding-from-openai/

AI, Apps, Generative AI, notebookllama

Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator

Posted on 27/10/202427/10/2024 by ManageNow.Cloud

27
Oct

Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. Like NotebookLM, it can generate back-and-forth, podcast-style digests of text files uploaded to it. NotebookLlama first creates a transcript from a file — e.g. a PDF […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/27/meta-releases-an-open-version-of-googles-podcast-generator/

AI, eCommerce, Startups

Arcade, a new AI product creation platform, designed this necklace

Posted on 27/10/202427/10/2024 by ManageNow.Cloud

27
Oct

Mariam Naficy, the founder of cosmetics retailer Eve and design marketplace Minted, has a long history of supporting independent artists and helping them sell their products. Her latest venture, Arcade AI, is a new type of marketplace that puts creative control directly into the hands of users. The generative AI platform, which launched its beta […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/27/arcade-a-new-ai-product-creation-platform-designed-this-necklace/

AI, OpenAI, TC

OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool has hallucination issues, researchers say

Posted on 27/10/202427/10/2024 by ManageNow.Cloud

27
Oct

Software engineers, developers, and academic researchers have serious concerns about transcriptions from OpenAI’s Whisper, according to a report in the Associated Press. While there’s been no shortage of discussion around generative AI’s tendency to hallucinate — basically, to make stuff up — it’s a bit surprising that this is an issue in transcription, where you’d […]

Source: TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/26/openais-whisper-transcription-tool-has-hallucination-issues-researchers-say/