China’s DeepSeek releases preview of long-awaited V4 model as AI race intensifies

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Friday released a preview version of its long-awaited V4 large language model, allowing users to test its new capabilities and features. The release comes more than a year after the Hangzhou-based company introduced its … Read More

Palantir’s summary of CEO Alexander Karp’s manifesto is generating buzz. Read the 22 bullet points.

Over the weekend, Palantir released a 22-point summary of Karp’s 320-page book, “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” that the billionaire tech CEO co-wrote and published in early 2025. “Because we get asked … Read More

Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – August 22, 2025

Greetings from Tyler, Nobody walked out. That’s the best news. So now we’re in for round two in a couple of weeks? Maybe that’s just enough time for the players to consider what the consequences of intransigence might be. Trump … Read More

Alibaba says it has an AI model even better than DeepSeek

Days after Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek sparked a global tech stock sell-off, a homegrown rival said its new AI model performed even better. Alibaba Cloud (BABA) released an upgraded version of its flagship AI model, Qwen2.5-Max, that performed better … Read More

OpenAI And Others Seek New Ways For Smarter AI

Companies that specialise in artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI, are working to overcome unforeseen obstacles and delays in their quest for ever-larger language models by creating training methods that employ more human-like ways for algorithms to “think.” TakeAway Points: Artificial … Read More

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