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Today, November 17, 2025, xAI has officially rolled out Grok 4.1, the latest iteration of its flagship large language model, across grok.com, the 𝕏 interface, and the iOS and Android apps. The update arrives after a two-week silent production test and aims to deliver more natural conversation, stronger emotional intelligence, tighter safety controls, and dramatically improved real-world reliability. Unlike […]

Two Anti-AI activists are currently more than 10 days into hunger strikes outside major AI company headquarters, refusing to eat until their demands about artificial intelligence development are heard. Guido Reichstadter has been camped outside Anthropic’s offices while Michael Trazzi protests at DeepMind, both arguing that the path toward artificial general intelligence poses existential threats […]

Alibaba’s Qwen team just unveiled Qwen3‑Next, a new model design aimed at handling much longer inputs while cutting compute costs. The headline claim: an 80‑billion‑parameter model that activates only ~3B parameters per token, thanks to a structured “mixture‑of‑experts” setup. You can read the official explainer on the Qwen blog and see the released model cards on Hugging Face and the NVIDIA API […]

The question hanging over Silicon Valley right now is one that makes investors nervous – are we living through another tech bubble? With AI companies burning through hundreds of billions in funding and Nvidia alone worth more than the entire GDP of Canada, the scale of investment feels weirdly familiar to anyone who lived through […]

Just when you thought Silicon Valley had the AI game locked down, Alibaba has unleashed Qwen3, a new generation of AI models so powerful they’re making US tech giants sweat. This isn’t just another AI; it’s a statement – a declaration that China is not just catching up, but is ready to lead the AI […]

When DeepSeek dropped its R1 model in January 2025, it quietly detonated a bomb under the AI industry. Built without access to Nvidia’s best GPUs and on a shoestring budget compared to Silicon Valley giants, R1 proved that top-tier AI could come from unexpected places. Investors across the U.S. were caught flat-footed — nearly $600 billion was wiped off the […]

Just a few days after its official debut on March 25, 2025, Google has once again redefined the boundaries of artificial intelligence with the launch of Gemini 2.5. Hailed as the company’s most advanced and “intelligent” AI model to date, Gemini 2.5 is not just an incremental upgrade—it represents a radical shift in the way […]

DeepSeek, the Chinese startup that sent shockwaves through the AI industry with its groundbreaking R1 reasoning model, is accelerating the release of its next-generation AI system, R2. Initially slated for an early May launch, sources now reveal that R2 will arrive much sooner, signaling a significant shift in the global AI landscape. The R2 model […]

AI is evolving so fast that even top players like ChatGPT are being challenged. Enter DeepSeek—an open-source AI from China making waves with its hybrid training, low-cost operation, and surprising versatility. It’s reshaping the competition in ways you might not expect. In this article, I’ll dive deep into how DeepSeek stacks up against ChatGPT, comparing their core strengths, weaknesses, and distinct […]