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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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Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has Silicon Valley flustered
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released a range of models capable of competing with OpenAI in a move experts told ITPro showcases the strength of open source AI. The announcement appears to have taken big tech players by surprise, with commentators noting that it highlights the growing capabilities of Chinese-based firms operating in the space. In a post on LinkedIn…
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Copilot+ PCs expand availability with new AMD and Intel silicon
The first Copilot+ PCs started hitting the market in May, but they were only available with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus CPUs. If you wanted a new laptop with AMD or Intel chips that could support all of Windows 11’s new AI-centric features, you were basically left out in the cold. But that will soon change, as…
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Nvidia Competitors: AI Chipmakers Fighting the Silicon War
Nvidia joined the 3-trillion market valuation club in June earlier this year, outranking the likes of Apple and Minecraft. This astronomical growth has been possible due to its dominance in the GPU and AI hardware space. However, Nvidia is not the only company making chips for today’s growing AI workloads. Many companies, such as Intel, Google, Amazon, and others, are…
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