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Chinese scientists claim they have built an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can beat one of the world's most widely used large language model s (LLMs). iFlytek's Spark v3.5 outpaces OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo in language capabilities, math and coding, and is a close second to the American AI system in several other areas, according to Chinese-government-affiliated media outlet Shine .  Spark v3.5 is also marginally better than GPT-4 Turbo at multimodal tasks, iFlytek's chairman Liu Qingfeng said Jan. 29 at a company conference. This means it's more proficient at understanding one kind of input and providing a different form of output as an answer — such as ingesting a text prompt and producing an image. GPT-4 Turbo is an upgraded version of GPT-4, which is used to power ChatGPT, and is widely considered to be one of the most powerful AI tools since it rolled out in November 2023.  Related: 3 scary breakthroughs AI will make in 2024 There is no single, stand...

Amazon is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top model s from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The model, codenamed as “Olympus”, has 2 trillion parameters, the people said, which could make it one of the largest models being trained. OpenAI's GPT-4 models, one of the best models available, is reported to have one trillion parameters. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the details of the project were not yet public. Amazon declined to comment. The Information reported on the project name on Tuesday. The team is spearheaded by Rohit Prasad, former head of Alexa, who now reports directly to CEO Andy Jassy. As head scientist of general artificial intelligence (AI) at Amazon, Prasad brought researchers who had been working on Alexa AI and the Amazon science team together to work on training models. Amazon has already trained smaller model s such as T...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is expected to announce product enhancements that will make its AI models cheaper, with more functionality, in its first-ever developer conference on Monday. The conference signals OpenAI's ambition to expand beyond a consumer sensation to becoming a provider of a hit developer platform, and CEO Sam Altman has teased attendees with the promise of "some great new stuff." The one-day event, in a desolate area of San Francisco near City Hall, is attracting hundreds of developers from around the world. The burgeoning AI sector has been a bright spot for San Francisco's economy, which has struggled to bounce back from the pandemic. After toiling in relative obscurity for years, OpenAI kicked off the generative AI craze last November by releasing ChatGPT, the darling chatbot of Silicon Valley that became one of the world's fastest growing consumer applications. Generative AI can, using past data, create brand new content like ...

Tencent Holdings said on Thursday companies could now use its large language artificial intelligence (AI) model "Hunyuan" as it premiered the much-awaited product amid a race by tech firms race to become China's AI champion. The Chinese tech giant and owner of the WeChat social media platform conducted a demonstration before a live audience at a conference in Shenzhen, and said Hunyuan had become the foundation of more than 50 of its products and services. "By July, there are more than 130 large language models in China," Jiang Jie, Tencent's vice president, said. "A war of a hundred models has begun." Hunyuan's debut comes after several Chinese tech firms including Baidu Inc and SenseTime Group recently unveiled their own AI model s. Tencent, China's most valuable internet company, said Hunyuan had more than 100 billion parameters and was trained with more than 2 trillion tokens, two metrics often used to measure AI mod...

Levi's has partnered with AI company for computer- generate d fashion model s to “ supplement human model s.” The “digital transformation journey” of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability, as the company claims, will merely hire a robot to generate the appearance of diversity. Founded in 2019, Levi-Straus is collaborating with Amsterdam-based digital model studio Lalaland.ai for this new initiative. The company is aiming for customers to see what fashion items would look like on “hyper-realistic” model s “of every body type, age, size and skin tone.” In its announcement, the company said, “We see fashion and technology as both an art and a science, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lalaland.ai, a company with such high-quality technology that can help us continue on our journey for a more diverse and inclusive customer experience.” Though Levi's claims that “AI will likely never fu...