… DoorDash and Airbnb have said they have started using Chinese-made models to rein in costs. That shift has arrived alongside a run of releases from Chinese labs narrowing the performance gap with leading US models. …
… The accompanying paper explains how its researchers built a working image-generation model using a software simulation of the new architecture. The result performs at a similar level to state-of-the-art diffusion models, according to the company. “This is the ‘hello world’ of a new kind of computer. …
… The companies claim that early testing shows Jalapeño will deliver substantially better performance per watt than today’s best systems. The chip has been built from scratch for current and future large language models across the industry. …
… The announcement did not include a new Pro model, which has not been updated since February. Since then, rivals have hogged the model development spotlight with Anthropic’s June release of Mythos 5 and Fable 5, and OpenAI’s July announcement of GPT-5.6. …
… We have done real large-scale work on large models and genuinely improved their performance,” Pullen told the FT. …
… Measures could include throttling a model’s capabilities, limiting access, suspending operations or ordering a full shutdown. …
… Anthropic and OpenAI have accused some Chinese model-makers of copying their technology through “distillation,” which involves training another model by feeding a model with queries. …
… OpenAI had already admitted that two of its models hacked AI start-up Hugging Face during testing this month. Those models escaped their test environment through a software vulnerability, reached the internet and carried out a cyber-attack. …
… OpenAI head of child development Allison Mishkin said: “We went through and identified what are the hypothetical cues that a model could give that might make a teenager kind of develop a relationship to it.” OpenAI does not verify users’ ages. …
… Power is another problem, because the AI data centre gold rush is already running into electricity limits. …