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European AI alliance looks to take on Silicon Valley and develop home-grown LLMs
A new alliance with a budget of €37.4 million is working on a European alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DeepSeek’s R1. OpenEuroLLM is a consortium of 20 leading European research institutions, companies, and EuroHPC centers hoping to develop a family of high-performance, multilingual, large language foundation models for commercial, industrial, and public service applications. The aim is to create a…
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How the CSA, Thread Group, and Wi-Fi Alliance plan to fix Matter
Matter launched with a mission to provide a reliable, secure way for smart home devices to connect to and communicate with each other across brands and ecosystems. But two years in, problems have plagued the connectivity protocol. Big players like Apple, Amazon, and Google have been slow to offer broad support for Matter device types, there are ongoing reliability and…
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The Browser Choice Alliance Wants to Keep Microsoft Edge in Check
Microsoft’s heavy-handed promotion of its Edge browser within Windows is no secret. Vivaldi, Opera, and a few others are joining forces to fight this preferential treatment of Edge. Vivaldi, Waterfox, Wavebox, Opera, and Chrome have formed an informal alliance called the “Browser Choice Alliance.” It’s trying to raise awareness of Microsoft’s shady practices of gatekeeping third-party browsers. “Unfortunately, Microsoft has…
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Intel, AMD unite in new x86 alliance to tackle AI, other challenges
Semiconductor rivals Intel and AMD announced the formation of an x86-processor advisory group that will try to address ever-increasing AI workloads, custom chiplets, and advances in 3D packaging and system architectures. Members of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat. Notably missing: TSMC — the world’s largest chipmaker.…
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