xAI's co-founder, Igor Babuschkin, announced his departure from the company He is now starting Babuschkin Ventures to support AI safety research and invest in AI startups that “advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe."
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Google Rolls Out Memory Feature for Gemini Assistant
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Google has started rolling out its own version of memory for Gemini Dubbed 'personal context,' the feature will enable the assistant to reference past chats for more relevant conversations Users also get a temporary chat to exclude info from memory
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Google Rolls Out Memory Feature in Gemini AI
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AI NEWS: Google is finally rolling out memory in Gemini Plus, more news from xAI, Anthropic, Tencent, Higgsfield AI, and Liquid. Here's everything you need to know:
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DeepSeek R2 Delayed Due to Huawei Chip Restrictions
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DeepSeek R2 delayed because they are forced to use Huawei chips
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Government Support: DeepSeek’s Potential Dominance or Downfall?
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I remember people were saying that DeepSeek getting support from the government means that they will dominate. I was kind of fearing it might be the end of DeepSeek.
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NVIDIA Launches Omniverse NuRec and Cosmos for Robotics
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NVIDIA is breaking new ground in robotics and simulation! With the launch of Omniverse NuRec libraries for 3D world reconstruction, Cosmos world foundation models for synthetic data and spatial reasoning, and upgraded RTX PRO Blackwell Servers & DGX Cloud for heavy-duty
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Perplexity AI bids $34.5B for Google Chrome browser
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Perplexity AI, valued at $18B, just dropped a bombshell: an unsolicited $34.5B all-cash bid to buy Google Chrome. Yes, Chrome, the browser used by 3B+ users. They promise to keep Chromium open source, invest $3B in 2 years, and even keep Google as the default search
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Hidden Paid Promotion in AI Product Marketing Undermines Trust
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Don't trust all the social media hype of AI products, a lot of it is hidden paid (this one from a popular AI tool)
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 runs 1.8x faster with NVIDIA NIM
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 now runs 1.8x faster with the @NVIDIA NIM microservice Our collaboration with @NVIDIA delivers faster performance and streamlined enterprise deployment for our most advanced image models. Compared to the base @Pytorch models these performance gains
