Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more
Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more
Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world.
How Synthesia is combining AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent, intonation, and expressiveness preservation
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Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create general AI agents for Chinese and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus
Last year, China saw a boom in foundation models, the do-everything large language models that underpin the AI revolution. Bluesky: @technologyreview.com Bluesky: @technologyreview...
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports: up to 80% of new computing resources are idle
A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager …
An analysis of nearly 4,000 public datasets finds that over 90% of AI training datasets came from Europe and North America, and fewer than 4% came from Africa
that's reshaping the infrastructures of our world in ways that reflect the interests of those big corporations.” Niall Firth / @niallfirth : New findings show how the sources of da...