China’s Answer to AI Sticker Shock

Corporate America is starting to balk at the cost of AI agents. A cheap alternative from China looks more tempting than ever.
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Stop Chasing the Latest AI Models: They're Rarely Worth Your Time or Money

Unless you're coding or stress-testing benchmarks, the "latest and greatest" usually won't change how you use AI.

Tiny carbon rings enable a new form of quantum control

Quantum states can be precisely controlled with the help of tiny carbon rings measuring only a few nanometers in size. This ...
CNET

Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here's What You Can Do

Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I stopped running the biggest local LLM that could fit, and a 2B model handles 90% of what I need

Smaller doesn't mean lesser ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Ollama is the easiest way to start local LLMs, but these 6 alternatives are also worth trying

Beyond Ollama - these LLM tools are worth switching to, depending on what you actually need.
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Exclusive: China’s MiniMax Plans to Launch 2.7-Trillion Parameter Model

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently on the market, according to two people with ...