The AI divide putting open weights models in spotlight
…MORE CONTEXT Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4 Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to…
So it's not open source, you can't download it, but is it any good? It's a good question, because if it's not, Meta's shareholders might start to wonder why the company is so keen to light $135 billion on fire. If Meta is to be believed, Muse Spark is a big improvement over Llama 4. The model boasts performance matching and in many cases besting the top models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. But before you read too far into these benchmark numbers, remember that they're coming from a company that not that long ago was accused of pulling a bait-and-switch in order to make Llama 4 look bette
Meta's new model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school…MORE CONTEXT Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4 Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to…
…When all you maybe wanted to do was write some new code faster or ask a chatbot for relationship advice. Questions to Anthropic went unanswered. ® anthropic software ai and ml personally identifiable…
…with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it , "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities." Oh boy! Just what we needed. Not just AI security bug…
…Lydia Clougherty Jones, Gartner VP analyst, said decision-making by AI agents may take AI liability to a new level. "When AI agents... are considered to operate on behalf of an organization…
…This thing can find and exploit anything it can find in an AI model, but such capabilities are limited to supercomputing labs for now. "Photon represents a paradigm shift in how we…
Systems Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't…
…to three devices." MORE CONTEXT EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom Telling an AI model that it's an expert programmer makes it…
…Why? Because AI capability, particularly in enterprise settings, is increasingly tied to existing locked-in cloud ecosystems. Microsoft's recent push with Copilot and its "Copilot for Work" offerings illuminates this point…
…it can see are IPv6-capable. Google’s result is therefore notable, and nice, but not solid proof that IPv6 has finally become dominant. MORE CONTEXT AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6…
…And we need a new set of metrics, he insists, to measure how AI affects engineering performance. "We don't know what those are yet," he said. It's 3.7x more…