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DeepSeek and Anthropic have a long way to go to catch ChatGPT: OpenAI’s flagship chatbot is still far and away the most popular AI tool in offices globally
ChatGPT remains the most popular AI tool among office workers globally, research shows, despite a rising number of competitor options available to users. Recent analysis from DeskTime found OpenAI’s flagship chatbot was used in 76% of offices worldwide at the end of 2024, maintaining a hefty lead over alternatives. Individual AI usage saw significant growth across 2024, according to DeskTime,…
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Apple’s CEO says DeepSeek AI is ‘excellent’
If you’ve been interested/enthusiastic about China’s DeepSeek AI, you’re not alone – Apple CEO Tim Cook also seems impressed with the tech, which he calls “excellent” – though he fell short of sharing any plans to integrate these models within his company’s own AI efforts. Cook was in China to woo government and suppliers as the company remains anxious to maintain its second…
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Huawei’s Pura X Ditches Android for HarmonyOS, Debuts AI Assistant With DeepSeek
Image: Huawei Huawei just flipped the script on foldable phones — literally. The Chinese tech giant has launched the Pura X, a sleek, square-shaped foldable smartphone with a wider screen, a powerful AI assistant, and no trace of Google’s Android in sight. Unveiled on March 20 in Shenzhen, the Huawei Pura X starts at 7,499 yuan (about $1,037) and marks…
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Manus AI Is Not China’s Second DeepSeek Moment; See Beyond the Hype
Within just a week, more than 2 million users have joined the waiting list to access China’s Manus general AI agent. Manus AI is being touted as the “second DeepSeek moment” coming from China. This is when the agent is in closed beta, and can only be accessed via an invitation. The frenzy has taken hold, with many calling Manus…
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Manus AI is the new challenger to DeepSeek — everything you need to know
AI is already changing up the way we handle our daily tasks, with constant ways to apply the ever-growing list of models to discover what works best. Imagine screening a hundred resumes to find the best candidate and even asking the AI to interview the ones with the most potential? Or possibly asking an AI to assemble all of your…
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‘Awesome for the community’: DeepSeek open sourced its code repositories, and experts think it could give competitors a scare
Challenger AI startup DeepSeek has open-sourced some of its code repositories in a move that experts told ITPro puts the firm ahead of the competition on model transparency. In a post to X late last month, DeepSeek said it would be open sourcing five of its code repositories in a bid to share what it called its “small but sincere…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says DeepSeek has done ‘good work’ showcasing AI model efficiency — and Gemini is going the same way too
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has lauded DeepSeek in the wake of the firm’s bombshell AI model release, noting that the Chinese company has shook up the industry with showcasing efficiency and accessibility gains. Last month, DeepSeek released its first AI model amid claims it was trained using a fraction of the resources — and therefore costs — of rival models…
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Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1 – Computerworld
Perplexity is releasing its model R1 1776, a version of Deepseek R1 with open model weights that has been post-trained to remove China’s censorship and provide more unbiased, accurate answers, according to Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas. He wrote about the move on LinkedIn. “The post-training to remove censorship has been carried out without degrading the basic reasoning ability…
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3 reasons Microsoft needn’t fear DeepSeek – Computerworld
Enterprises want off-the-shelf AI integration with business tools What businesses want from genAI tools, above all, is to increase their productivity. Doing that requires integration with their applications, tools, and infrastructure. That’s exactly what Microsoft does with its entire Copilot product line, including Microsoft 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, GitHub, Microsoft’s CRM and ERP platform Dynamics 365, and others. DeepSeek offers…
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Sam Altman thinks OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ with open source, but that could all change – the DeepSeek success has prompted a rethink for big tech AI leaders
Leading technology experts have called for Western AI developers to consider shifting to open source in the wake of the DeepSeek success – and OpenAI might be among those warming to the approach. Speaking in the wake of DeepSeek’s model release in January, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Reddit users he had some regrets about the company’s failure to embrace…
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