Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops  —  Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn’t taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released last year, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license  —  JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Kadrey v. Meta, centered on the use of LibGen to train Llama AI models, begins Thursday and marks the first big test in the ongoing battle over AI and copyright  —  Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen  —  Meta will fight a group of US authors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner  —  Google’s ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.’s efforts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: A study from Cohere, Stanford, and others accuses LMArena of helping Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon game its popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena  —  A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google is rolling out AI image editing in the Gemini app, letting users edit uploaded images and those generated by the app using natural language text prompts  —  After developer testing last month, Google is beginning to roll out native AI image editing to the Gemini app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: World’s WLD launches in most of the US, including on Coinbase, starting this week, as Tools for Humanity debuts a portable “orb mini” device for iris scanning  —  After scanning millions of eyes around the world, Tools for Humanity is bringing Worldcoin to the United States. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: about a month ago, Tesla board members opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk; the current status of the succession planning is not clear  —  With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple says it disagrees with the court’s injunction in its dispute against Epic Games and plans to appeal, but will comply with the order in the meantime  —  In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said the company disagrees with the decision and plans to appeal—but will comply with the court’s order in the meantime: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AWS launches Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos, and is priced at $2.50/1M input tokens and $12.50/1M output tokens, available in Bedrock  —  Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier. Lees verder op Tech Meme