Baidu, China's answer to Google, has released two new AI models. On Saturday, Baidu released Ernie X1, a reasoning model it said "delivers performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at only half the price." ...

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to ...

Thomson also proposed the plum pudding model of the atom, in which negatively-charged electrons were embedded like raisins within a positively-charged “plum pudding”. The minimum amount of ...

Just two months after the tech world was upended by the DeepSeek-R1 AI model, Alibaba Cloud has introduced QwQ-32B, an open source large language model (LLM). The Chinese cloud giant describes the ...

A prediction model from the global financial services firm JPMorgan Chase, analyzed by Bloomberg, suggests that the probability of an economic downturn has grown to 31 percent from 17 percent at ...

Widely known as “Miss Atomic Bomb,” she had long been identified as a model named Lee Merlin — but, as it turns out, this was only a stage name. As researcher and historian Robert Friedrichs revealed, ...

For instance, if a sample of normally distributed data had a standard deviation of 3.1, and another had one of 6.3, the model with a standard deviation (SD) of 6.3 is more dispersed and would ...