China’s cloud computing sector sees massive AI model price cuts by Alibaba and Baidu: Here’s why

China’s cloud computing sector sees massive AI model price cuts by Alibaba and Baidu: Here’s why

Alibaba and Baidu, two of China’s leading tech companies, dramatically reduced prices on Tuesday for their large-language models (LLMs) used in generative AI products, intensifying the ongoing price competition in the country’s cloud computing sector. Alibaba’s cloud division announced substantial price cuts, slashing costs by up to 97 percent on various Tongyi Qwen LLMs. For …

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Creating bespoke programming languages for efficient visual AI systems | MIT News

Creating bespoke programming languages for efficient visual AI systems | MIT News

A single photograph offers glimpses into the creator’s world — their interests and feelings about a subject or space. But what about creators behind the technologies that help to make those images possible?  MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley is one such person, who has designed everything from tools …

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