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Carl Franzen

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Elon Musk’s xAI tries to explain Grok’s South African race relations freakout the other day

Elon Musk’s xAI tries to explain Grok’s South African race relations freakout the other day

Carl Franzen May 15, 2025 7:47 PM
Arm is rebranding its system-on-a-chip product designs to showcase power savings for AI workloads, targeting a surprising sector
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Arm is rebranding its system-on-a-chip product designs to showcase power savings for AI workloads, targeting a surprising sector

Carl Franzen May 15, 2025 9:17 AM
OpenAI brings GPT-4.1 and 4.1 mini to ChatGPT — what enterprises should know

OpenAI brings GPT-4.1 and 4.1 mini to ChatGPT — what enterprises should know

Carl Franzen May 14, 2025 4:46 PM
Elon Musk’s Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason

Carl Franzen May 14, 2025 12:08 PM
SimilarWeb’s new AI usage report reveals 5 surprising findings, including explosive growth in coding tools

SimilarWeb’s new AI usage report reveals 5 surprising findings, including explosive growth in coding tools

Carl Franzen May 13, 2025 10:22 AM
Sakana introduces new AI architecture, ‘Continuous Thought Machines’ to make models reason with less guidance — like human brains

Sakana introduces new AI architecture, ‘Continuous Thought Machines’ to make models reason with less guidance — like human brains

Carl Franzen May 12, 2025 4:08 PM
New fully open source vision encoder OpenVision arrives to improve on OpenAI’s Clip, Google’s SigLIP

New fully open source vision encoder OpenVision arrives to improve on OpenAI’s Clip, Google’s SigLIP

Carl Franzen May 12, 2025 11:19 AM
You can now fine-tune your enterprise’s own version of OpenAI’s o4-mini reasoning model with reinforcement learning

You can now fine-tune your enterprise’s own version of OpenAI’s o4-mini reasoning model with reinforcement learning

Carl Franzen May 8, 2025 5:07 PM
OpenAI names Instacart leader Fidji Simo as new CEO of Applications
Analysis

OpenAI names Instacart leader Fidji Simo as new CEO of Applications

Carl Franzen May 8, 2025 8:25 AM
Mistral comes out swinging for enterprise AI customers with new Le Chat Enterprise, Medium 3 model

Mistral comes out swinging for enterprise AI customers with new Le Chat Enterprise, Medium 3 model

Carl Franzen May 7, 2025 8:13 AM
Meet the new king of AI coding: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition dethrones Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Meet the new king of AI coding: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition dethrones Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Carl Franzen May 6, 2025 11:39 AM
Report: OpenAI is buying AI-powered developer platform Windsurf — what happens to its support for rival LLMs?

Report: OpenAI is buying AI-powered developer platform Windsurf — what happens to its support for rival LLMs?

Carl Franzen May 6, 2025 7:37 AM
Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face

Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face

Carl Franzen May 5, 2025 12:17 PM
OpenAI overrode concerns of expert testers to release sycophantic GPT-4o

OpenAI overrode concerns of expert testers to release sycophantic GPT-4o

Carl Franzen May 2, 2025 10:57 AM
Microsoft launches Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus, a small, powerful, open weights reasoning model!

Microsoft launches Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus, a small, powerful, open weights reasoning model!

Carl Franzen May 1, 2025 5:41 AM
Qwen swings for a double with 2.5-Omni-3B model that runs on consumer PCs, laptops

Qwen swings for a double with 2.5-Omni-3B model that runs on consumer PCs, laptops

Carl Franzen April 30, 2025 1:31 PM
OpenAI rolls back ChatGPT’s sycophancy and explains what went wrong

OpenAI rolls back ChatGPT’s sycophancy and explains what went wrong

Carl Franzen April 30, 2025 8:14 AM
Meta’s first dedicated AI app is here with Llama 4 — but it’s more consumer than productivity or business oriented

Meta’s first dedicated AI app is here with Llama 4 — but it’s more consumer than productivity or business oriented

Carl Franzen April 29, 2025 11:19 AM
Alibaba launches open source Qwen3 model that surpasses OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1

Alibaba launches open source Qwen3 model that surpasses OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1

Carl Franzen April 28, 2025 4:56 PM
Ex-OpenAI CEO and power users sound alarm over AI sycophancy and flattery of users

Ex-OpenAI CEO and power users sound alarm over AI sycophancy and flattery of users

Carl Franzen April 28, 2025 2:49 PM
Liquid AI is revolutionizing LLMs to work on edge devices like smartphones with new ‘Hyena Edge’ model

Liquid AI is revolutionizing LLMs to work on edge devices like smartphones with new ‘Hyena Edge’ model

Carl Franzen April 25, 2025 3:02 PM
Ethically trained AI startup Pleias releases new small reasoning models optimized for RAG with built-in citations

Ethically trained AI startup Pleias releases new small reasoning models optimized for RAG with built-in citations

Carl Franzen April 24, 2025 10:03 AM
Former DeepSeeker and collaborators release new method for training reliable AI agents: RAGEN

Former DeepSeeker and collaborators release new method for training reliable AI agents: RAGEN

Carl Franzen April 23, 2025 1:04 PM
A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more

A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more

Carl Franzen April 22, 2025 10:48 AM
Watch: Google DeepMind CEO and AI Nobel winner Demis Hassabis on CBS’ ’60 Minutes’

Watch: Google DeepMind CEO and AI Nobel winner Demis Hassabis on CBS’ ’60 Minutes’

Carl Franzen April 21, 2025 11:28 AM
Now it’s TikTok parent ByteDance’s turn for a reasoning AI: enter Seed-Thinking-v1.5!

Now it’s TikTok parent ByteDance’s turn for a reasoning AI: enter Seed-Thinking-v1.5!

Carl Franzen April 11, 2025 12:08 PM
8flow wants to map your enterprise data and workflows for use in AI — and it’s raised $10M to help

8flow wants to map your enterprise data and workflows for use in AI — and it’s raised $10M to help

Carl Franzen April 10, 2025 4:41 AM
Google launches Gemini in Android Studio for Businesses, making it easier for devs to design work apps

Google launches Gemini in Android Studio for Businesses, making it easier for devs to design work apps

Carl Franzen April 9, 2025 10:43 AM
New open source AI company Deep Cogito releases first models and they’re already topping the charts

New open source AI company Deep Cogito releases first models and they’re already topping the charts

Carl Franzen April 8, 2025 3:01 PM
Nvidia’s new Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra outperforms DeepSeek R1 at half the size

Nvidia’s new Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra outperforms DeepSeek R1 at half the size

Carl Franzen April 8, 2025 8:08 AM
Move over, Alexa: Amazon launches new realtime voice model Nova Sonic for third-party enterprise development

Move over, Alexa: Amazon launches new realtime voice model Nova Sonic for third-party enterprise development

Carl Franzen April 8, 2025 6:00 AM
Meta defends Llama 4 release against ‘reports of mixed quality,’ blames bugs

Meta defends Llama 4 release against ‘reports of mixed quality,’ blames bugs

Carl Franzen April 7, 2025 5:11 PM
Meta’s answer to DeepSeek is here: Llama 4 launches with long context Scout and Maverick models, and 2T parameter Behemoth on the way!

Meta’s answer to DeepSeek is here: Llama 4 launches with long context Scout and Maverick models, and 2T parameter Behemoth on the way!

Carl Franzen April 5, 2025 2:46 PM
Midjourney v7 launches with voice prompting and faster draft mode — why is it getting mixed reviews?

Midjourney v7 launches with voice prompting and faster draft mode — why is it getting mixed reviews?

Carl Franzen April 4, 2025 11:47 AM
Devin 2.0 is here: Cognition slashes price of AI software engineer to $20 per month from $500

Devin 2.0 is here: Cognition slashes price of AI software engineer to $20 per month from $500

Carl Franzen April 3, 2025 12:11 PM
What you need to know about Amazon Nova Act: the new AI agent SDK challenging OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce

What you need to know about Amazon Nova Act: the new AI agent SDK challenging OpenAI, Microsoft, Salesforce

Carl Franzen April 2, 2025 12:53 PM
Emergence AI’s new system automatically creates AI agents rapidly in realtime based on the work at hand

Emergence AI’s new system automatically creates AI agents rapidly in realtime based on the work at hand

Carl Franzen April 1, 2025 9:12 AM
A new, enterprise-specific AI speech model is here: Jargonic from aiOla claims to best rivals at your business’s lingo
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A new, enterprise-specific AI speech model is here: Jargonic from aiOla claims to best rivals at your business’s lingo

Carl Franzen March 31, 2025 6:00 AM
Researchers warn of ‘catastrophic overtraining’ in LLMs

Researchers warn of ‘catastrophic overtraining’ in LLMs

Carl Franzen March 28, 2025 1:01 PM
‘Studio Ghibli’ AI image trend overwhelms OpenAI’s new GPT-4o feature, delaying free tier

‘Studio Ghibli’ AI image trend overwhelms OpenAI’s new GPT-4o feature, delaying free tier

Carl Franzen March 26, 2025 4:14 PM
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