World models are getting substantial funding. What is a world model, how does it compare to a large language model, and what ...

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Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user’s computer. If you haven’t followed the AI industry closely, you might be asking: what exactly is a small ...

Step aside, LLMs. The next big step for AI is learning, reconstructing and simulating the dynamics of the real world. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a ...

Today’s AIs are book smart. Everything they know they learned from available language, images and videos. To evolve further, they have to get street smart. That requires “world models.” The key is ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

Ben Affleck’s AI startup, recently purchased by Netflix for around $600 million, has a different approach to gen AI. Ben Affleck’s AI startup, recently purchased by Netflix for around $600 million, ...

Chinese AI models have caught up to US models in power and performance. China is leading in model openness. Much of the world may adopt the freely available Chinese technology. The US artificial ...

What happens to models once a newer one takes their place? Usually following the typical tech playbook, older models are retired and replaced by new ones with the old ones no longer available. However ...

Stanford's 2026 AI Index: frontier models fail one in three attempts, lab transparency is declining, and benchmarks are ...