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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: AI images complicate search for escaped monkeys in St. Louis Several monkeys have escaped in St. Louis, and AI-generated images are making the search for the animals harder, ...
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Chinese AI industry admits US remains ahead for now

Leading figures in China's AI industry are tempering expectations: China won't overtake the US in the AI race anytime soon. Justin Lin, head of Alibaba's Qwen model series, puts the odds of a Chinese ...
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China captured the global lead in open-weight AI development during 2025, Stanford analysis shows

A Stanford analysis shows that at least a dozen Chinese developers, including Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and Deepseek, are now building AI models that match global competition. Alibaba's Qwen has ...
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Convogo's founders join OpenAI to close the gap between AI potential and actual use

OpenAI is bringing in the team behind Convogo, an AI startup that built software for evaluating executives, as part of its broader cloud strategy. Founder Matt Cooper announced the news on LinkedIn.
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AI benchmarks are broken and the industry keeps using them anyway, study finds

AI benchmarks are pretty unreliable, Epoch AI finds: Scores shift a lot based on prompt wording, temperature settings, or which testing tool is used. The API provider causes the widest swings in ...