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  DeepSeek's AI Model Upgrade Intensifies Rivalry With OpenAI

  Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released a major upgrade to its V3 large language model, intensifying competition with US tech leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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  Baidu Releases Ernie 4.5 Foundation Model and Ernie X1 Reasoning Model With Multimodal Capabilities

  Baidu released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Sunday. One, Ernie 4.5, is a foundation model that succeeds the company’s previous generation, while the other, Ernie X1, is a reasoning-focused model. The latter is also the Chinese tech giant’s first attempt at a “deep-thinking” AI model, and Baidu claims that the large languag...

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  PhonePe’s Indus Appstore to Come Pre-Installed on Xiaomi Devices in India

  PhonePe’s Indus Appstore and Xiaomi India announced a multi-year partnership on Thursday. With this collaboration, the homegrown Android app marketplace will now come pre-installed in all Xiaomi devices in India. As a result, the Chinese consumer tech brand’s own Android marketplace GetApps will now be replaced with Indus Appstore in all existi...

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  Google Introduces New Class Of Cheap AI Models As Cost Concerns Intensify

  Alphabet's Google on Wednesday announced updates to its Gemini family of large language models, including a new product line with competitive pricing to low-cost artificial intelligence models like that of Chinese rival DeepSeek.

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  DeepSeek Mayhem: How Chinese AI Startup Compares With ChatGPT, Others

  DeepSeek is the new kid on the Artificial Intelligence-driven chatbot / large language model block, and it is threatening to blow the rest out of the water.

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  DeepSeek-V3 Open-Source AI Model With Mixture-of-Experts Architecture Released

  DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm, released the DeepSeek-V3 AI model on Thursday. The new open-source large language model (LLM) features a massive 671 billion parameters, surpassing the Meta Llama 3.1 model which has 405 billion parameters. Despite its size, the researchers claimed that the LLM is focused towards efficiency wit...

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  Gemini 1.5 Pro with Deep Research Now Available Globally in More Than 45 Languages to Advanced Subscribers

  Google expanded Gemini’s agentic function, Deep Research, to more than 150 countries and 45 languages on Saturday. The feature was unveiled alongside the Gemini 2.0 family of AI models earlier this month. However, its capabilities are currently tied to the 1.5 Pro artificial intelligence (AI) model. Currently, Deep Research is only available in t...

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  Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities Released, Can Rival OpenAI o1

  A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model was released on Wednesday which claims to take on OpenAI’s o1 AI model in terms of advanced reasoning. Dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, the large language model (LLM) is said to have outperformed the o1 model on several benchmarks. Notably, the AI model is available to test on the web for free, althoug...

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  Xiaomi Said to Replace GetApps With PhonePe's Indus Appstore in India

  Xiaomi will likely soon discontinue its GetApps app store for Indian users. Although the company has yet to officially announce the store's discontinuation, information regarding the same has surfaced online. The Chinese smartphone maker is said to replace the app store with Indus Appstore, an Android-based mobile app marketplace by PhonePe.

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  Xi Jinping Pressed Joe Biden To Change Language On Taiwan: Report

  During last November's Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting, the Chinese President and his aides asked his US counterpart and his team to tweak the language in official statements.

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  Samsung Galaxy AI to Get Support for Four New Languages and Two New Dialects

  Samsung announced the expansion of Galaxy AI to support four new languages and two new dialects. The company’s native artificial intelligence (AI) suite of features for smartphones and other devices will soon support Turkish, Dutch, Swedish, and Romanian languages. Additionally, the South Korean tech giant's AI hub will support two new dialects...

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  MiniMax Video-01 Platform With AI Video Generation Capabilities Launched

  MiniMax, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, released a text-to-video generation model on Monday. Dubbed Video-01, the platform is available to the public even outside of China. It can generate six-second-long videos in a wide range of styles. Video-01 joins the company’s existing AI offerings suc...

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  OnePlus Pad 2, Nord Buds 3 Pro, Watch 2R Renders Leak With Familiar Designs; Specifications Tipped

  OnePlus is hosting an event on July 16 to unveil the OnePlus Pad 2, Nord Buds 3 Pro and Watch 2R. The Chinese tech brand hasn't divulged anything about the new devices yet, but the latest leaks suggest their design and specifications. The OnePlus Watch 2R seems to arrive as an affordable version of the OnePlus Watch 2, while the Nord Buds 3 Pro is ...

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  Character.AI Introduces Character Calls Feature That Lets Users 'Call' AI Chatbots

  Character.AI, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new feature on Thursday that will let users call a chatbot. These AI chatbots, also known as Characters, can be programmed to behave as a real person or a fictional entity. With this feature, users can make phone calls over the app and have conversations that simulate a real tele...

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  English Will Not Be Compulsory Subject For Classes 11, 12 In Maharashtra Schools

  English has been included in the category of foreign languages along with German, French, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Persian and Arabic.