“Open weights strengthen competition and competition is what keeps the benefits of AI broadly shared rather than concentrated in the hands of few”. We believe this strongly at @perplexity_ai and are co-signing this letter, with @nvidia
! Thanks to @a16z for putting this together!
BIG TECH
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Perplexity and NVIDIA Back Letter Supporting Open-Weight AI Competition
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Tech Firms’ Commercial Incentives Align with Supporting Open-Weight Models
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Capitalism is just so beautiful. $8 trillion worth of market cap coming out in support of open-weight models because it's good for their business and makes them look good… and, totally coincidentally, it also happens to be better for us consumers and practically every
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Tech Leaders’ Support for Open Models Could Affect US Restrictions
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Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, and so many more. They all stand for open source. These are the most significant and influential voices on our side, suggesting that the US authorities will likely no longer be able to comply with a ban on Chinese open source.
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NVIDIA and Partners Argue Open Models Enable Inspection and Customization
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This is literally Jensen’s first post on X, and it couldn’t be more significant Together with Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Hugging Face, IBM, Mozilla, Palantir and others, NVIDIA argues that open models allow companies and countries to inspect, modify and run AI on their own
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Google’s Free Cash Flow Turns Negative as AI Infrastructure Spending Rises
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For the first time in its history, Google is reporting negative free cash flow. Not because the company is no longer making money, but because AI is absorbing unprecedented amounts of money in data centers and chips. Google is no longer spending to accompany a revolution: [Traduit de FR vers EN]
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Kai-Fu Lee Discusses Kimi K3 and Other Chinese AI Models
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My latest Bloomberg Interview, where I talked about AI technologies coming from China, including Kimi K3, and http://
01.ai's TrueNorth and Boss AI. https://
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Sakana AI Releases Fugu-Ultra v1.1
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Announcing Fugu-Ultra v1.1 We’ve been thrilled by the reception to the Fugu model family. Thanks to everyone who tried it, shared feedback, and trusted Fugu with real work. Today, we’re releasing Fugu-Ultra v1.1 → https://
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Microsoft Announces High-Fidelity Image and Faster Voice Models
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MICROSOFT : New MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash models have been announced! MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is now in public preview. Pro is our highest-fidelity image model to date, priced at $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output
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Microsoft Reports MAI Image Model Cost and Latency Improvements
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As @satyanadella says, we're making great progress on shipping MAI models that are higher quality, faster and cheaper across MSFT. In PowerPoint, our image model cut costs 84% compared with GPT-Image-2. In OneDrive, it lifted save rates 26% and cut latency by ~25%. It's also
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Databricks and Microsoft Extend Partnership for Contextual Enterprise AI
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We’re expanding our decade-long strategic partnership with @Microsoft through the 2030s to help enterprises build AI grounded in their own business context. Our partnership is stronger than ever . Databricks is deepening its use of Azure Databricks and Azure Cobalt, while