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Hugging Face Launches $299 Desktop Robot, Aiming to Democratize Robotics Development

2025-07-10

Hugging Face, the $4.5 billion AI platform dubbed the 'GitHub of machine learning,' announced Reachy Mini, a $299 desktop robot designed to democratize AI-powered robotics. This 11-inch humanoid robot, resulting from Hugging Face's acquisition of Pollen Robotics, integrates directly with the Hugging Face Hub, giving developers access to thousands of pre-built AI models and enabling application sharing. The move challenges the industry's high-cost, closed-source model, aiming to accelerate physical AI development by providing affordable, open-source hardware and software. Hugging Face's strategy anticipates a booming market for physical AI and intends to build a thriving ecosystem of robotics applications.

(venturebeat.com)

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German Firm TNG Unveils DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera: A Faster, More Efficient Open-Source LLM

2025-07-05

TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, a German firm, has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, a new large language model (LLM) built upon the open-source DeepSeek-R1-0528. Utilizing their innovative Assembly-of-Experts (AoE) method, R1T2 boasts significant improvements in speed and efficiency, achieving over 200% faster inference than R1-0528 while retaining over 90% of its reasoning capabilities. The model's concise outputs translate to lower compute costs. Released under the permissive MIT license and available on Hugging Face, R1T2 offers a cost-effective and efficient AI solution for enterprises and researchers.

(venturebeat.com)

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Microsoft Bing Integrates Sora: Free AI Video Generator Arrives

2025-06-10

Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's Sora video generation technology into its Bing mobile app, launching the free Bing Video Creator. Users can generate short, 5-second videos simply by typing text prompts. While currently limited to text-to-video generation and offering a limited number of free creations, its ease of use and accessibility make it a compelling tool for casual video creation. This move not only offers consumers a convenient video creation tool but also opens up possibilities for enterprise users to explore applications of AI video generation, such as automated video summaries, training materials, or marketing assets.

(venturebeat.com)

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Google's Gemini 2.5: A Giant Leap Towards Universal AI

2025-05-20

Google unveiled significant upgrades to Gemini at its I/O conference, introducing the enhanced Gemini 2.5 Pro and the faster Gemini 2.5 Flash. Pro boasts a new 'Deep Think' mode enabling multi-hypothesis reasoning, achieving impressive scores on challenging math and coding benchmarks. Flash shows marked improvements across reasoning, multimodality, and code, while boasting increased efficiency. Both versions now feature native audio output, text-to-speech, thought summaries, and thinking budgets, supporting multiple languages and dialects, and improving integration with open-source tools. Google's ambition is a 'universal AI assistant' understanding context, planning, and acting; Gemini 2.5 represents a major step towards this goal.

(venturebeat.com)

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Alibaba's ZeroSearch: Training AI Search Without Search Engines

2025-05-09

Alibaba researchers have developed ZeroSearch, a groundbreaking technique revolutionizing AI search training. By simulating search results, ZeroSearch eliminates the need for costly commercial search engine APIs, enabling large language models (LLMs) to develop advanced search capabilities. This drastically reduces training costs (up to 88%) and provides greater control over training data, leveling the playing field for smaller AI companies. ZeroSearch outperformed models trained with real search engines across seven question-answering datasets. This breakthrough hints at a future where AI increasingly relies on self-simulation, reducing dependence on external services.

(venturebeat.com)

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Nintendo's Virtual Game Cards: Sharing Digital Switch Games Made Easy

2025-03-27

Nintendo unveiled Virtual Game Cards for the Nintendo Switch, launching late April. This new feature allows sharing digital games across multiple Switch consoles. Purchased digital games are stored as Virtual Game Cards, virtually loaded and ejected like physical cartridges. A single game can be played on up to two Switches simultaneously, and family sharing is enabled via local wireless, with a two-week lending period. This enhances digital game flexibility and convenience.

(venturebeat.com)

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Mayo Clinic Solves LLM Hallucination Problem with Reverse RAG

2025-03-15

Large language models (LLMs) suffer from 'hallucinations' – generating inaccurate information – a particularly dangerous issue in healthcare. Mayo Clinic tackled this with a novel 'reverse RAG' technique. By linking extracted information to its original source, this method eliminated almost all data-retrieval-based hallucinations, enabling the model's deployment across its clinical practice. The technique combines the CURE algorithm and vector databases, ensuring traceability of every data point to its origin. This enhances model reliability and trustworthiness, significantly reducing physician workload and opening new avenues for personalized medicine.

(venturebeat.com)

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PIN AI: Your Personal AI, Under Your Control

2025-02-15

PIN AI is a decentralized personal AI app that runs directly on your smartphone, challenging big tech's dominance over user data. Unlike cloud-based AI, PIN AI keeps your AI model on your device, ensuring privacy and customization. You own your data and control how your AI learns. Boasting over 2 million alpha users and backed by investors like a16z Crypto, PIN AI aims to create a user-centric AI ecosystem, empowering individuals to own and control their AI assistants, much like Iron Man's J.A.R.V.I.S.

(venturebeat.com)

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Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Max Challenges US Tech Giants, Reshaping Enterprise AI

2025-01-29

Alibaba Cloud unveiled its Qwen2.5-Max model, marking China's second major AI breakthrough in less than a week, further rattling US tech markets and intensifying concerns about America's waning AI leadership. The model outperforms DeepSeek's R1 model and demonstrates competitive results against industry leaders like GPT-4o and Claude-3.5-Sonnet in benchmarks including Arena-Hard, LiveBench, and LiveCodeBench. Qwen2.5-Max's mixture-of-experts architecture allows for significant computational efficiency, having been trained on over 20 trillion tokens while using far fewer resources than traditional approaches. This efficiency could reshape enterprise AI strategies, potentially reducing infrastructure costs by 40-60%. However, considerations around data sovereignty, API reliability, and long-term support remain crucial for enterprise adoption.

(venturebeat.com)

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Colossal Secures $200M to De-Extinct Woolly Mammoths, Thylacines, and Dodos

2025-01-16

Colossal BioSciences raised $200 million to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth, thylacine, and dodo. The company uses genetic engineering, AI, and computational biology to achieve its ambitious goals. Significant progress has been made, including assembling complete genomes for several target species. Beyond de-extinction, Colossal is also focused on species preservation and human healthcare. The funding will expand the team, support technology development, and broaden the list of species targeted for de-extinction.

(venturebeat.com)

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Nvidia Open-Sources Run:ai After $700M Acquisition

2024-12-30

Nvidia completed its $700 million acquisition of Run:ai, a software company simplifying GPU cloud orchestration for AI, and immediately open-sourced the software. This move is likely a strategic response to antitrust concerns, allowing wider access to the technology and mitigating potential regulatory issues stemming from Nvidia's market dominance. Run:ai's software will help companies efficiently manage GPU resources for AI development, fostering growth within the broader AI ecosystem.

(venturebeat.com)

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Revolutionary Technique Cuts LLM Memory Costs by Up to 75%

2024-12-17

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup, has developed a groundbreaking technique called "universal transformer memory" that significantly improves the memory efficiency of large language models (LLMs). Using neural attention memory modules (NAMMs), the technique acts like a smart editor, discarding redundant information while retaining crucial details. This results in up to a 75% reduction in memory costs and improved performance across various models and tasks, offering substantial benefits for enterprises utilizing LLMs.

(venturebeat.com)

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