Scale AI, “which provides training data to key AI players like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Meta, has been awarded a prototype contract from the Defense Department for “Thunderforge,” the DOD’s “flagship program” to use AI agents for U.S. military planning and operations”
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Scale AI Wins Major DoD Contract for Military AI Agents
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Scale AI bagged a multimillion-dollar deal from the U.S. Department of Defense Scale and its tech partners will lead Thunderforge, DoD's program to deploy AI agents for military planning and ops This will support decision-making for military leaders
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Alibaba QwQ-32B: Reasoning AI Matches DeepSeek-R1 Cheaper
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Alibaba’s Qwen team dropped QwQ-32B, a reasoning AI that matches or surpasses DeepSeek-R1 at much less cost
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 6 mars 2025
—20x smaller than DeepSeek-R1
—Priced $0.20 per million input and output tokens
—Open-sourced under Apache 2.0
Here it is running on M4 Max:pic.twitter.com/J40JG0jGtCAlibaba’s Qwen team dropped QwQ-32B, a reasoning AI that matches or surpasses DeepSeek-R1 at much less cost —20x smaller than DeepSeek-R1
—Priced $0.20 per million input and output tokens
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Google Debuts AI Mode Search with Gemini 2.0
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Google debuted AI Mode, a Search Labs experiment that turns traditional search into a conversational experience
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 6 mars 2025
—Powered by custom Gemini 2.0 model
—Runs parallel searches across diverse sources
—Gives detailed yet well-reasoned responsespic.twitter.com/YIbSAHMBb9Google debuted AI Mode, a Search Labs experiment that turns traditional search into a conversational experience —Powered by custom Gemini 2.0 model
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OpenAI Plans Tiered AI Agents for PhD-Level Research Tasks
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OpenAI is reportedly planning specialized AI agents for tasks like Ph.D.-level research
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 6 mars 2025
Three agent tiers expected:
—Business professionals ($2k/mo)
—Advanced devs ($10k/mo)
—PhD-level researchers ($20k/mo)
OAI charges $200/mo for its Operator agent:pic.twitter.com/sV3HunCEpXOpenAI is reportedly planning specialized AI agents for tasks like Ph.D.-level research Three agent tiers expected: —Business professionals ($2k/mo)
—Advanced devs ($10k/mo)
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OpenAI Plans $20,000 Subscription for Specialized AI Agents
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI is reportedly planning a $20,000 subscription for specialized AI agents Plus, more news from Google, Alibaba, Scale AI, Codeium, Luma Labs, and Turing. Here's everything you need to know:
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Apple’s AI Strategy: Innovation or Irrelevance in 2026?
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Either Apple is cooking the most spectacular AI reveal ever, or it is increasingly irrelevant? Siri still doesn’t work ! And I say this as a huge Apple fan.
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Waymo autonomous cars demonstrate superior safety through reaction time
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Reaction time and 100% attentiveness are some of the reasons @Waymo cars are safer per mile driven than human drivers. A bit slow on the reaction time or a bit of inattentiveness by a human driver in this situation would have been disastrous. https://t.co/tmL8c2UNoa
— Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) 6 mars 2025Reaction time and 100% attentiveness are some of the reasons @Waymo cars are safer per mile driven than human drivers. A bit slow on the reaction time or a bit of inattentiveness by a human driver in this situation would have been disastrous.
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TSMC Announcement Signals US Strategic Shift in AI Hardware
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Indeed. Just speaking about the US in light of the TSMC announcement, but this is not lost on me. Writing on it now.