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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

The technique caught widespread attention after Chinas DeepSeek used it to build powerful and efficient AI models based on open source systems released by competitors Meta and Alibaba. Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence.

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Hadley China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

turns out to have had a major program in China for almost 20 years, and they have come up with a cool way to use the net. Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean.

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Scientist Who Gene-Hacked Human Babies Says Ethics Are "Holding Back" Scientific Progress

Futurism

In 2019, the scientist was arrested in China and sentenced to three years in prison and just 18 months after his release in April 2022, He was back in the lab working on how to use genetic editing to fight Alzheimer's.

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First trip to China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm now on my first-ever trip to mainland China, thanks to the Hadley School for the Blind twentieth anniversary of their China school. nonprofit to have a China branch, but truly amazing that it's been there for twenty years. It's impressive what people in Hong Kong have done with their tiny patch of China.

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Cell Phone Literacy Ideas in China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just had a great meeting with Jenny Zhao where we talked about the cell phone industry in China. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages.

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Apple will use Alibaba's generative AI for its iPhones in China

Engadget

He revealed that Apple talked to a number of other companies in China for a potential partnership, but it decided to team up with Alibaba in the end. As CNBC explains, the country has strict regulations surrounding AI, including requiring large language models to get approval for commercial use.

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12 Demographic & Technology Trends Changing the Nonprofit Sector Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

4) China currently has the highest population in the world, however, by 2050 India will be the most populated country at 1,676 million (compared to China’s 1,387 million). Today, out of roughly 6,000 languages in use, ten languages make up 82% of the content on the Internet. Source: United Nations Population Fund.