Topic: compute efficiency
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Google's Jeff Dean: AI Search Still Needs Classic Ranking
Google's AI search is built on its classic infrastructure, using traditional crawling, indexing, and ranking to first filter web documents before AI synthesizes answers. The system employs a staged "retrieve, rerank, and synthesize" pipeline, where content must pass through established ranking th...
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Yann LeCun's Startup Maps a New Route to AGI
A new startup, Logical Intelligence, is pursuing an alternative AI path focused on precise, error-free reasoning using an energy-based model (EBM), challenging the dominance of large language models (LLMs) in the quest for AGI. The company's first model, Kona 1.0, demonstrates efficient logical p...
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GPT-5's Out, Qwen's In: The New AI Contender
Qwen, an open-weight AI model from Alibaba, is powering practical applications like real-time translation in smart glasses, offering high performance and accessibility despite not leading all benchmarks. Open Chinese models like Qwen are gaining global popularity, surpassing American model downlo...
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Deer in the Living Room: A Gemini Home Story
Google's Gemini Home service analyzes only event clips rather than continuous video streams to conserve processing power, summarizing these into a Daily Brief of routine activities. The system operates as a vision-only AI, intentionally ignoring audio to protect privacy, and includes an Ask Home ...
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