Will Heaven

2 months ago | techtelegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Jee |Will Heaven |Caiwei Chen

Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor, Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor, and Caiwei Chen, China reporter. The tech world is abuzz over a new open-source reasoning AI model developed by DeepSeek, a Chinese startup. Its success is remarkable given the constraints that Chinese AI companies face due to US export controls on cutting-edge chips. DeepSeek’s approach represents a radical change in how AI gets built, and could shift the tech world’s center of gravity.

Dec 3, 2024 | bitebi.com | Will Heaven

A startup called Exa is pitching a new spin on generative search. It uses the tech behind large language models to return lists of results that it claims are more on point than those from its rivals, including Google and OpenAI. The aim is to turn the internet’s chaotic tangle of web pages into a kind of directory, where queries return specific and precise results. Exa already provides its search engine as a back-end service to companies that want to build their own applications on top of it.

Dec 2, 2024 | bitebi.com | Will Heaven

A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help translate manga into English, allowing the company to churn out a new title for a Western audience in just a few days rather than the two to three months it would take a team of humans. Orange was founded by Shoko Ugaki, a manga superfan who (according to VP of product Rei Kuroda) has some 10,000 titles in his house. The company now wants more people outside Japan to have access to them.

Oct 24, 2024 | bitebi.com | Will Heaven

The UK driverless-car startup Wayve is headed west. The firm’s cars learned to drive on the streets of London. But Wayve has announced that it will begin testing its tech in and around San Francisco as well. And that brings a new challenge: Its AI will need to switch from driving on the left to driving on the right. As visitors to or from the UK will know, making that switch is harder than it sounds.

Jun 21, 2024 | sentinelsource.com | Will Heaven

The World Health Organization’s new chatbot launched on April 2 with the best of intentions. A fresh-faced virtual avatar backed by GPT-3.5, SARAH (Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health) dispenses health tips in eight different languages, 24/7, about how to eat well, quit smoking, de-stress, and more, for millions around the world. But like all chatbots, SARAH can flub its answers. It was quickly found to give out incorrect information.