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21 Apr 2025 · 4 min read

OpenAI Politeness Cost: Millions Spent on 'Please' & 'Thank You'

Sam Altman reveals users saying 'please' & 'thank you' costs OpenAI tens of millions yearly in electricity. Explore the hidden cost of AI politeness, its impact on operations & environment.

19 Apr 2025 · 7 min read

Microsoft vs. Cursor & Windsurf: VS Code Extension Restrictions Shake AI IDE Market

Microsoft is enforcing usage restrictions on VS Code extensions, disrupting AI code editors like Cursor and Windsurf. Discover the strategic implications, open-source ethics, and the battle for developer mindshare.

India map with delivery scooter icon contrasted with China map showing robot and AI head icons, comparing startup priorities.

17 Apr 2025 · 7 min read

India's Deep Tech Challenge vs. China: Why Startups Lag & How India Can Lead

Sparked by Piyush Goyal's critique, explore why India's startups lag in deep tech vs. China. Analyze gaps in funding, R&D, talent & policy, and chart India's path forward.

13 Apr 2025 · 4 min read

Ziroh Labs' Kompact AI: Run LLMs on CPUs Without GPUs – A Game-Changer for AI Accessibility

Ziroh Labs, in partnership with IIT Madras, unveils Kompact AI—an innovative platform that enables large AI models like Llama 2 and Qwen 2.5 to run on standard CPUs. With offline capabilities and 3x performance claims, it aims to democratize AI and reduce reliance on costly GPUs.

Qwen

27 Mar 2025 · 8 min read

Qwen2.5-Omni: Revolutionary Multimodal AI Model 2025

Explore Qwen2.5-Omni, a next-gen AI model unifying text, audio, image & video processing with real-time streaming speech generation. Discover its full potential.

26 Mar 2025 · 8 min read

🚀 Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Review: A Game-Changing Leap in AI Intelligence (2025 Update)

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro is here—and it's smarter than ever. Discover its benchmark-crushing performance, powerful new features, and how it compares to GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7.

DeepSeek

25 Mar 2025 · 3 min read

DeepSeek-V3–0324 Review: 7 Powerful Reasons This Open-Source AI Beats GPT-4 & Claude 3.5

DeepSeek-V3–0324 is a groundbreaking open-source AI model rivaling GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Gemini. Discover its performance, efficiency, and why it’s redefining enterprise and research AI in 2025.

18 Mar 2025 · 5 min read

Mistral Small 3.1 – The AI Model That’s Faster, Smarter & Open-Source!

Discover the power of Mistral Small 3.1, the game-changing open-source AI model with multimodal capabilities, lightning-fast speeds, and cost-effective deployment. Is it the best alternative to GPT-4o? Find out now!

18 Mar 2025 · 6 min read

AI Search Engines Are Failing at News Citations—New Study Exposes Shocking Accuracy Issues

AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity struggle with accurate news citations. A new study reveals they get sources wrong over 60% of the time—Grok 3 fails a shocking 94% of queries! Find out why.

2 Mar 2025 · 4 min read

DeepSeek’s 545% Profit Margin Claim: AI Inference Breakthrough or Hype?

Explore DeepSeek’s bold 545% profit margin claim with their DeepSeek-V3R1 AI inference system. Dive into the tech, market impact, and skepticism surrounding this Chinese startup’s MoE architecture.

25 Feb 2025 · 7 min read

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Anthropic’s Hybrid Reasoning Model Redefines AI Problem-Solving

Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet redefines AI with hybrid reasoning, extended thinking, and groundbreaking coding capabilities. Learn about its performance, benchmarks, and enterprise applications.

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip vs. Google’s Willow chip, showcasing two different approaches to quantum computing.

22 Feb 2025 · 5 min read

Microsoft's Majorana 1 vs. Google's Willow: Decoding the Quantum Computing Race

Microsoft and Google are competing in the quantum computing race with Majorana 1 and Willow chips. Microsoft aims for long-term stability with topological qubits, while Google demonstrates immediate quantum advantage. Which approach will lead to the future of quantum supremacy? Read more.

18 Feb 2025 · 5 min read

🚀 Grok 3: The Next-Gen AI Model from xAI | Benchmarks, Features & Performance

Grok 3, Elon Musk's latest AI model from xAI, is taking on OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini. Explore its technical specs, benchmarks, multimodal capabilities, reasoning power, and Chatbot Arena rankings in this in-depth analysis.

6 Feb 2025 · 4 min read

DeepSeek-VL2: Advancing Vision-Language Models with Mixture-of-Experts

Discover DeepSeek-VL2, a state-of-the-art vision-language model leveraging Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. Explore its innovations in dynamic tiling, Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), data construction, training methodology, and benchmark evaluations.

31 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

Mistral Small 3: A Powerful 24B Parameter Open-Source AI Model

Discover Mistral Small 3, a cutting-edge 24-billion-parameter AI model offering high performance, low latency, and open-source accessibility. Learn about its benchmarks, multilingual capabilities, and real-world applications.

31 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

Tulu3: Advanced Open-Source Language Model Post-Training

Discover Tülu3, an open-source post-trained Llama 3.1. Unlock advanced recipes, transparent data, and robust evaluation for top-tier reasoning and coding.

29 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

Qwen2.5-Max: Alibaba's Open-Weight MoE Model Shatters AI Benchmarks

Discover Qwen2.5-Max, Alibaba Cloud’s latest large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model trained on 20T+ tokens. Learn how it outperforms top AI models in reasoning, coding, and general intelligence. Explore benchmarks, API access, and future AI advancements.

28 Jan 2025 · 6 min read

Janus: Revolutionizing Multimodal AI with Decoupled Visual Encoding

Discover how Janus, a groundbreaking autoregressive framework, redefines multimodal AI by decoupling visual encoding for superior understanding and generation. Learn about its innovative architecture, unmatched performance, and game-changing potential in the world of unified AI models.