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French AI darling Mistral is keeping the new releases coming this summer. Just days after announcing its own domestic AI-optimized cloud service Mistral Compute, the well-funded company has released ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of ...

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.

Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek use hundreds of billions of “parameters” — the adjustable knobs that determine connections ...

Microsoft Corp. today released the code for Phi-4, a small language model that can generate text and solve math problems. The company first detailed the model last month. Initially, Phi-4 was only ...

‘Tis the week for small AI models, it seems. Nonprofit AI research institute Ai2 on Thursday released Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter model that Ai2 claims beats similarly-sized models from Google, ...

Large language models unleashed the power of AI. Now it’s time for more efficient AIs to take over. Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI Now Make no ...

On Thursday, French lab Mistral AI launched Small 3, which the company calls "the most efficient model of its category" and says is optimized for latency. Mistral says Small 3 can compete with Llama 3 ...

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...

There’s a lot of uncertainty in the agency world today, given factors such as tariffs, a mixed economic outlook, the advent of artificial intelligence and a pending mega-merger that will forever alter ...