Topic: foundation models
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Unlocking iOS 26: How Developers Use Apple's Local AI Models
iOS 26 introduces Apple's Foundation Models framework, enabling developers to integrate local AI models into apps for smarter, offline features without cloud reliance or inference costs. These on-device models enhance usability and privacy, supporting functions like guided generation, tool callin...
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How the AI Boom Could Leave Tech Giants Behind
The AI industry is shifting from reliance on massive, all-purpose foundation models to specialized applications, treating underlying AI as interchangeable components. This trend is driven by diminishing returns from scaling up models, with innovation now focusing on fine-tuning, user-centric desi...
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The End of AI Coding Tools: What's Next for Developers?
Smaller AI coding startups face existential threats from tech giants controlling foundation models, struggling to differentiate their business models despite significant venture funding. These startups' core functionality in code generation depends entirely on foundation models from competitors l...
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This Robot Brain Thinks in 3D With Open Source Code
European researchers have released SPEAR-1, an open-source AI model that enhances industrial robots' dexterity for grasping and manipulating objects, accelerating innovation in factory and warehouse robotics. SPEAR-1 integrates 3D data during training, improving spatial reasoning by bridging the ...
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General Intuition raises $134M to train AI with video game clips
General Intuition secured $133.7 million in seed funding to develop AI agents using a unique dataset of two billion gaming videos annually, focusing on spatial-temporal reasoning for understanding object interactions in space and time. The startup's AI models learn from visual input to navigate e...
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Apple Eyes AI Acquisitions, Says Tim Cook
Apple is accelerating its AI development through acquisitions and partnerships, with CEO Tim Cook confirming that the next-generation AI-enhanced Siri is on track for a 2024 launch. The company employs a three-part AI strategy combining in-house foundation models, collaborations with external spe...
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Lovable's CEO Unfazed by Vibe-Coding Rivals
Lovable is a Swedish AI-driven platform that enables users without technical skills to build apps and websites, achieving rapid growth with 2.3 million active users and $100 million in annual recurring revenue. The company, valued at $1.8 billion, aims to evolve into a full-stack environment for ...
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Apple Intelligence: Your Complete Guide to Apple's AI
Apple Intelligence, launched in October 2024, integrates generative AI into native apps like Messages and Mail, offering features such as Writing Tools for summarization and proofreading, and Genmojis for image creation. Siri has been significantly upgraded with cross-app functionality and onscre...
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OpenAI Acquires Sky AI to Enhance Mac User Experience
OpenAI has acquired Sky AI, a natural language interface designed to enhance user interactions with Mac computers by assisting with tasks like writing, coding, and planning directly within applications. The acquisition aims to integrate OpenAI's AI deeply into Mac workflows, leveraging the Sky te...
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Warp's New AI Coding Tools Supercharge Diff Tracking
Warp Code introduces AI coding tools that offer real-time diff tracking and a transparent workflow, making AI-assisted coding feel like collaborative pair programming. The system allows developers to see, comment on, and adjust code changes in real time, with features like manual editing and an i...
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