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Reflection AI, a one-year-old startup co-founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in talks to raise more than $1 billion to fund its efforts to develop open-source large language models to compete with the likes of China’s DeepSeek, France’s Mistral and U.S-based Meta Platforms, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The company has raised most of its target, according to one of those people.
The New York-based startup will use some of the money for the cost-intensive develop
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DeepSeek, one of China’s leading artificial intelligence developers, has decided to use Huawei Technologies’ AI chips to train some of its AI models, a sign it is reducing its reliance on Nvidia chips, according to three people with knowledge of the effort. The move follows pressure by the Chinese government on local tech companies to use locally made chips more. DeepSeek continues to use Nvidia chips for its largest and... Read more ›
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As we wrap up for the Labor Day weekend, one question has persisted through this week: Why is Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang so determined to demonstrate his need for the Chinese market? With Nvidia’s ability to sell its artificial intelligence chips to China currently in limbo—caught between U.S. and Chinese government restrictions—another CEO might be playing down China’s importance to the company. Nvidia is growing like gangbusters without China, so... Read more ›
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Less than a month from now, a federal court in Virginia will begin hearing an antitrust case that could determine whether Google has to spin off part of its advertising tech business into an independent company. But Google isn’t waiting for the decision to help that group become a more viable stand-alone business. Last month, for example, Google staff in the part of the ad tech group that the court... Read more ›
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