HuggingFace CEO has concerns about Chinese open source AI models

China’s open source AI models have been making the news lately for their strong performance on various AI tasks such as coding and ‘reasoning.’  However, they have also attracted criticism – including from OpenAI employees – for censoring topics sensitive to the Chinese government, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre. HuggingFace’s CEO Clement Delangue says … Read more

TV Host Gregg Wallace Addresses Backlash After Misconduct Allegations

Gregg Wallace Jeff Spicer/Getty Images UPDATE, 12/3/24 at 1:20 p.m. ET: The BBC announced on Tuesday, December 3 that the broadcaster will be canceling two MasterChef Christmas specials after TV host Gregg Wallace was hit with several sexual misconduct allegations. “The celebrity Christmas specials are obviously a different type of show and in the current … Read more

Syria urged by Turkey, U.S. to hold talks with opposition after sudden advance – National

The recent rapid advance by opposition fighters in Syria shows that Syrian President Bashar Assad must reconcile with his own people and hold talks with the opposition, the Turkish foreign minister said Monday. At a joint news conference in Ankara with his Iranian counterpart, Hakan Fidan said Turkey and Iran, which support opposing sides in … Read more

South Korean equities fall and won strengthens after vow of ‘unlimited’ liquidity

Yoon Suk Yeol vowed that as South Korean president he would “rebuild this great nation” into one “that truly belongs to the people” when he delivered his inauguration speech in May 2022. Instead, his presidency has been marked by mounting unpopularity and political dysfunction, culminating on Tuesday in his declaration of martial law in the … Read more

Emergence’s AI orchestrator launches to break Big Tech silos

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Emergence AI, a startup founded by IBM Research veterans that emerged from stealth earlier this year with more than $97 million in funding, today unveiled its enterprise-grade autonomous multi-agent AI orchestrator, which it claims is among … Read more

Meta uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 alongside Llama to augment internal AI coding tool

Despite Mark Zuckerberg hailing Meta’s Llama AI model as among the best in tech, his company is happy to also use a rival when needed. Meta’s internal coding tool, Metamate, incorporates OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, alongside Meta’s own Llama model, to make the tool more useful for developers and other Meta employee who use it, two … Read more