"Perplexity.ai open-sourced R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek-R1 model that has been post-trained to provide unbiased, accurate, and factual information."

DeepSeek’s release of R1 was a generous contribution to the world, showcasing innovations in efficient pre-training, attention mechanisms and the sparse use of mixture-of-experts (SMoE). This new …

Thinking Machines – the latest AI research and product company. They plan to:

• Frequently publish technical blog posts, papers, and code.
• Build things correctly for the long haul, maximising both productivity and security rather than taking shortcuts.
• Contribute to AI safety by: -- Maintaining a high safety bar—preventing misuse of released …

How comfortable would you be attending a meeting with delegate agents or sending your own delegate? Is this a cultural step too far? While I was not surprised by the topic of this paper, it raises some important questions on transparency, authenticity, cultural acceptance and data ownership.

We've all heard the adage: "You only get one chance to make a first impression." While that first impression certainly carries weight, it's not the be-all and end-all. There's hope for recovery, thanks to a psychological principle known as the peak-end rule.

Pioneered by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and Barbara …

Can AI help a child prepare for a spelling test?

That’s the question I asked this week while helping my daughter study for hers. Instead of just drilling words the old-fashioned way, I wondered—how hard would it be to build an AI-powered spelling assistant?

With Open WebUI, it …

Ever wondered how a transformer (LLM) works? How input text is tokenised, embedded, normalised and passes through multi-head self-attention layers? Well, someone decided to make it into an interactive visualisation. Wow.

Have you ever worked with a professional interpreter? They perform impressive mental gymnastics, especially in simultaneous translation, where they listen to a live audio stream in one language while translating and speaking in another at the same time.

Over the past fifteen years, I’ve travelled extensively across APAC, speaking …

5G’s low latency, greater throughput and more consistent connections make remote driving technically viable—but is it truly the better option? While 5G can help address reliability concerns, the biggest challenge might not be the network but the human element. Could a remote driver be the weakest link in …

The Text-to-Speech (TTS) landscape is transforming rapidly. Have you explored the latest advancements?

I recently came across Kokoro, a compact yet powerful TTS model (only 82M parameters!), and I'm impressed. Its audio quality is exceptional, rivalling much larger models. Beyond quality, Kokoro is fast enough for real-time applications and can …

Ever wish you could give those annoying scammers a taste of their own medicine? O2 has found a brilliant way to do just that! Their AI chatbot, "DAIsy," poses as a sweet but slightly confused old lady, politely but effectively wasting scammers' time. It's a clever and entertaining approach to …