Manuel G. Pascual

2 months ago | elpais.com | Fernando Peinado |Manuel G. Pascual

Los tuits de Miguel Ángel Rodríguez sobre cinco hijos que perdieron a sus padres en residencias durante la covid han sido tachados de “lamentables”, “inadmisibles” o faltos de “empatía”, y también han suscitado la pregunta de si el jefe de gabinete de Isabel Díaz Ayuso infringió la Ley de Protección de Datos.

2 months ago | english.elpais.com | Iker Seisdedos |Manuel G. Pascual

A consortium led by Elon Musk has offered $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The deal comes months after the owner of X and Tesla sued the artificial intelligence startup to prevent it from transitioning to a for-profit company, deepening tensions between the tech tycoon and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the company’s future. The offer is well below OpenAI’s market value, which Bloomberg puts at around $300 billion.

2 months ago | elpais.com | Manuel G. Pascual |Alvaro Sanchez

Una pequeña empresa china ha logrado derrumbar el castillo de naipes de la inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa que tan cuidadosamente habían edificado un puñado de gigantes tecnológicos. Hasta hace una semana, la única duda que pendía en torno a esta industria era si habría suficientes contratistas para construir todos los centros de datos y las plantas energéticas necesarias para alimentar su constante crecimiento. Pero la irrupción de DeepSeek lo ha puesto todo patas arriba.

2 months ago | english.elpais.com | Jordi Pérez Colomé |Manuel G. Pascual

The revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) models by China’s DeepSeek is based on one key factor: they do the same thing, but for less. They generally perform just as well as Silicon Valley’s market leaders, but they are much less expensive to create and use. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, the creators of the most famous models, and Nvidia, the company behind the sophisticated chips used by these companies, have seen their apparent advantage collapse in just a few days.

2 months ago | english.elpais.com | Manuel G. Pascual |Manuel Ansede

Artificial intelligence has become a fundamental tool of scientific advancement. “As a computer scientist, I believe that the human being is the most complex program ever written. It’s amazing to be able to access a piece of that code,” says Pushmeet Kohli, vice-president of research at Google DeepMind. He knows what he’s talking about.