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Character AI, the California-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new safety feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Parental Insights, the feature is aimed at the platform’s users under the age of 18. These users can add a parent or guardian’s email address, and the platform will send them a summary of their teen’s activity. The new
Dylan Butts / CNBC: Alibaba releases open-source multimodal AI model Qwen2.5-Omni-7B on Hugging Face and GitHub, saying the model can be deployed on edge devices like smartphones — Alibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest AI model in its “Qwen series,” as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the “DeepSeek moment.”
Swiggy Instamart has announced a fast delivery service for smartphones in India. The quick delivery platform will sell smartphones from brands like Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, and Redmi to customers in select locations. The service will likely be rolled out to more areas eventually. Customers can order the latest iPhone 16e on the instant delivery platform for
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claims better alignment with human preferences and math reasoning than earlier 2.5 VL models — Qwen’s previous vision model was Qwen2.5 VL, released in January in 3B, 7B and 72B sizes. — Today’s Apache 2. licensed release … Source
Aardvark Weather, an artificial intelligence (AI) system for weather forecasting that offers several advantages over traditional methods, was unveiled on Thursday. The fully AI-driven system is said to be capable enough to replace the existing systems that require custom supercomputers and a team of experts to deliver predictions. It is also said to improve prediction
Grace Sharkey / FreightWaves: Augment, a startup founded by Deliverr co-founder Harish Abbott and whose AI assistant can automate routine tasks in logistics, raised a $25M seed from 8VC — Augment, an AI-driven logistics platform, announced Tuesday it has raised a $25 million seed funding round from 8VC. Source link
OpenAI, on Thursday, introduced new audio models in application programming interface (API) that offer improved performance in accuracy and reliability. The San Francisco-based AI firm released three new artificial intelligence (AI) models for both speech-to-text transcription and text-to-speech (TTS) functions. The company claimed that these models will enable developers to build applications with agentic workflows.
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xAI, the Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind Grok, released a new application programming interface (API) on Wednesday. The new API is unique as it is the first developer tool that supports image generation. The company has lately been focused on developers and has released as many as five APIs since the first one
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