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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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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.

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Taiwanese startup WritePath’s AI tech speeds up financial disclosure translation

TechCrunch

In countries where English is not a main language, listed companies not only have to deal with financial disclosure regulations, but make sure their investor materials are available in English for global backers. WritePath make the process faster and scalable by combining its AI tech with human translators.

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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Google DeepMind broke through with a family of natively multi-modal models called Gemini that understand imagery and audio as well as they do language. Mistral released impressive new small language models that can run on laptops and even phones with its Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, as did Microsoft with its Phi-3 and Phi-4 models.

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10 Emerging Trends in Online Communications and Fundraising to Watch in 2018

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Over those three years, Nonprofit Tech for Good and PIR trained more than 60,000 NPO and NGO staff worldwide! Today, 10 languages make up 82% of web content. 1 in 3 use WeChat Pay in China. The webinar was the final webinar in a three-year webinar series sponsored by the Public Interest Registry. The Internet of Things.

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Kunlun Tech launches the first LLM-powered search engine in China

TechNode

On August 23, China-based overseas internet company Kunlun Tech launched its own large language model-powered search engine called Tiangong AI Search. According to Kunlun Tech, Tiangong AI Search is the first LLM-supported search engine in China. Kunlun statement, in Chinese ]

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