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Indian Express
02-05-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
Free AI Tools: From ChatGPT to Perplexity, 5 AI tools to boost your productivity
Best Free AI Tools: In today's fast-moving digital world, AI tools are becoming essential for learning, working, and solving everyday problems. From students writing assignments to professionals managing tasks, AI makes things faster and easier. It is important to understand what tools are available and how they differ from each other. Many companies offer free version of their AI tools, making advanced technology accessible to everyone. These tools can help with writing, coding, research, and many more. Knowing the features and costs of each tool helps users choose the best one for their needs. That's why covering free AI tools is timely and useful. It empowers users to take advantage of technology without spending much. Perplexity It is an AI-powered search engine that gives clear, short answers to search queries with links to online sources. The free version uses OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and gives unlimited answers with web links. The paid version is about Rs 1,670 per month and gives users access to OpenAI's GPT-4, as well as additional features like uploading files and web browsing tailored for researchers and students. You don't need to log in to try it, but an account helps you save your chat history and get more features. Anthropic's Claude Developed by Anthropic, Claude is a chatbot that writes, explains, and helps with study sessions or work-related tasks. The free version uses Claude 3 Haiku, which is fast and smart. The paid version, Claude Pro, costs around Rs 1,670/month and gives access to Claude 3 Opus, which is more advanced and can handle longer chats. Claude is known for providing clear and thoughtful answers. It's good for writing essays, emails, and summaries, as well as deeper, longer conversations. Google's Gemini Earlier known as Bard, Google 's flagship AI chatbot has been designed for writing, coding, and searching the web. The free plan gives you access to Gemini 1.5 Flash. The paid version, called Gemini Advanced, costs around Rs 1,950/month and gives you access to Gemini 1.5 Pro, which is faster and provides access to many tools such as Atlassian Rovo, MongoDB, New Relic, Redis. It also includes 2TB Google Drive storage. Gemini works well within Gmail, Google Docs, and YouTube. If you use Google apps often, Gemini is a useful AI tool to help with daily tasks. DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek, which is known for developing other AI models like DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-Coder. (Image: Unsplash) It is an open AI model made by Chinese startup DeepSeek, which is known for developing other AI models like DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-Coder. You can try its models for free online or download its code repositories on GitHub. DeepSeek doesn't have fixed paid plans yet, and is used more by people in programming or research. It supports tasks like writing code, solving math, and translating languages. It's not as popular as other AI models yet, but is growing quickly in the AI community. OpenAI's ChatGPT ChatGPT was developed by OpenAI and is one of the most popular AI chatbots. (Unsplash) ChatGPT was developed by OpenAI and is one of the most popular AI chatbots. The free version uses GPT-3.5 and gives helpful replies. You also get limited access to GPT-4o. The paid version, ChatGPT Plus, costs around Rs 1,670/month and gives users full access to GPT-4o, better tools like image and file use, and faster answers. It also lets users create and use tasks, projects, and custom GPTs. There is also limited access to Sora video generation. It's great for writing, learning, coding, and asking questions. ChatGPT is used by students, teachers, writers, and even businesses for everyday help.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Top Chatbots Are Giving Horrible Financial Advice
Despite lofty claims from artificial intelligence soothsayers, the world's top chatbots are still strikingly bad at giving financial advice. AI researchers Gary Smith, Valentina Liberman, and Isaac Warshaw of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence posed a series of 12 finance questions to four leading large language models (LLMs) — OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, DeepSeek-V2, Elon Musk's Grok 3 Beta, and Google's Gemini 2 — to test out their financial prowess. As the experts explained in a new study from Mind Matters, each chatbot proved to be "consistently verbose but often incorrect." That finding was, notably, almost identical to Smith's assessment last year for the Journal of Financial Planning in which, upon posing 11 finance questions to ChatGPT 3.5, Microsoft's Bing with ChatGPT's GPT-4, and Google's Bard chatbot, the LLMs spat out responses that were "consistently grammatically correct and seemingly authoritative but riddled with arithmetic and critical-thinking mistakes." Using a simple scale where a score of "0" included completely incorrect financial analyses, a "0.5" denoted a correct financial analysis with mathematical errors, and a "1" that was correct on both the math and the financial analysis, no chatbot earned higher than a five out of 12 points maximum. ChatGPT led the pack with a 5.0, followed by DeepSeek's 4.0, Grok's 3.0, and Gemini's abysmal 1.5. Some of the chatbot responses were so bad that they defied the Walter Bradley experts' expectations. When Grok, for example, was asked to add up a single month's worth of expenses for a Caribbean rental property whose rent was $3,700 and whose utilities ran $200 per month, the chatbot claimed that those numbers together added up to $4,900. Along with spitting out a bunch of strange typographical errors, the chatbots also failed, per the study, to generate any intelligent analyses for the relatively basic financial questions the researchers posed. Even the chatbots' most compelling answers seemed to be gleaned from various online sources, and those only came when being asked to explain relatively simple concepts like how Roth IRAs work. Throughout it all, the chatbots were dangerously glib. The researchers noted that all of the LLMs they tested present a "reassuring illusion of human-like intelligence, along with a breezy conversational style enhanced by friendly exclamation points" that could come off to the average user as confidence and correctness. "It is still the case that the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us," they concluded, "but that we think computers are smarter than us and consequently trust them to make decisions they should not be trusted to make." More on dumb AI: OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek's AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race and whether the demand for AI chips will sustain. But where did DeepSeek come from, and how did it rise to international fame so quickly? DeepSeek is backed by High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese quantitative hedge fund that uses AI to inform its trading decisions. AI enthusiast Liang Wenfeng co-founded High-Flyer in 2015. Wenfeng, who reportedly began dabbling in trading while a student at Zhejiang University, launched High-Flyer Capital Management as a hedge fund in 2019 focused on developing and deploying AI algorithms. In 2023, High-Flyer started DeepSeek as a lab dedicated to researching AI tools separate from its financial business. With High-Flyer as one of its investors, the lab spun off into its own company, also called DeepSeek. From day one, DeepSeek built its own data center clusters for model training. But like other AI companies in China, DeepSeek has been affected by U.S. export bans on hardware. To train one of its more recent models, the company was forced to use Nvidia H800 chips, a less-powerful version of a chip, the H100, available to U.S. companies. DeepSeek's technical team is said to skew young. The company reportedly aggressively recruits doctorate AI researchers from top Chinese universities. DeepSeek also hires people without any computer science background to help its tech better understand a wide range of subjects, per The New York Times. DeepSeek unveiled its first set of models — DeepSeek Coder, DeepSeek LLM, and DeepSeek Chat — in November 2023. But it wasn't until last spring, when the startup released its next-gen DeepSeek-V2 family of models, that the AI industry started to take notice. DeepSeek-V2, a general-purpose text- and image-analyzing system, performed well in various AI benchmarks — and was far cheaper to run than comparable models at the time. It forced DeepSeek's domestic competition, including ByteDance and Alibaba, to cut the usage prices for some of their models, and make others completely free. DeepSeek-V3, launched in December 2024, only added to DeepSeek's notoriety. According to DeepSeek's internal benchmark testing, DeepSeek V3 outperforms both downloadable, openly available models like Meta's Llama and 'closed' models that can only be accessed through an API, like OpenAI's GPT-4o. Equally impressive is DeepSeek's R1 "reasoning" model. Released in January, DeepSeek claims R1 performs as well as OpenAI's o1 model on key benchmarks. Being a reasoning model, R1 effectively fact-checks itself, which helps it to avoid some of the pitfalls that normally trip up models. Reasoning models take a little longer — usually seconds to minutes longer — to arrive at solutions compared to a typical non-reasoning model. The upside is that they tend to be more reliable in domains such as physics, science, and math. There is a downside to R1, DeepSeek V3, and DeepSeek's other models, however. Being Chinese-developed AI, they're subject to benchmarking by China's internet regulator to ensure that its responses "embody core socialist values." In DeepSeek's chatbot app, for example, R1 won't answer questions about Tiananmen Square or Taiwan's autonomy. If DeepSeek has a business model, it's not clear what that model is, exactly. The company prices its products and services well below market value — and gives others away for free. The way DeepSeek tells it, efficiency breakthroughs have enabled it to maintain extreme cost competitiveness. Some experts dispute the figures the company has supplied, however. Whatever the case may be, developers have taken to DeepSeek's models, which aren't open source as the phrase is commonly understood but are available under permissive licenses that allow for commercial use. According to Clem Delangue, the CEO of Hugging Face, one of the platforms hosting DeepSeek's models, developers on Hugging Face have created over 500 'derivative' models of R1 that have racked up 2.5 million downloads combined. DeepSeek's success against larger and more established rivals has been described as "upending AI" and "over-hyped." The company's success was at least in part responsible for causing Nvidia's stock price to drop by 18% on Monday, and for eliciting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Microsoft announced that DeepSeek is available on its Azure AI Foundry service, Microsoft's platform that brings together AI services for enterprises under a single banner. When asked about DeepSeek's impact on Meta's AI spending during its first-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said spending on AI infrastructure will continue to be a 'strategic advantage' for Meta. At the same time, some companies are banning DeepSeek, and so are entire countries and governments, including South Korea. New York state also banned DeepSeek from being used on government devices. As for what DeepSeek's future might hold, it's not clear. Improved models are a given. But the U.S. government appears to be growing wary of what it perceives as harmful foreign influence. TechCrunch has an AI-focused newsletter! Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Wednesday. This story was originally published January 28, 2025, and will be updated continuously with more information.
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Why Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd. (KC) Advanced on Thursday
We recently compiled a list of the In this article, we are going to take a look at where Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ:KC) stands against the other stocks. Wall Street's main indices ended mixed on Thursday, with the Dow Jones the sole decliner, losing 0.28 percent. In contrast, both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite registered gains, rising by 0.36 percent and 0.51 percent, respectively. Amid the earnings season, 10 companies saw significant increases in their valuations, thanks to stronger-than-expected earnings reports. Additionally, several firms enjoyed rallies fueled by newly secured deals. In this article, we detailed the reasons behind the 10 companies' impressive performance. To come up with Thursday's biggest advancers, we considered only the stocks with at least $2 billion in market capitalization and $5 million in daily trading volume. An executive standing in front of their headquarters building, proudly symbolizing the company's achievements. Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ:KC) shares grew for a fourth day on Thursday, jumping 11.47 percent to finish at $17.4 apiece as investors snapped up shares in the company fueled by optimism over its potential benefit from Xioami's recent poaching of one of DeepSeek's top developers. Earlier this week, Xiaomi, a company also chaired by Kingsoft's chairman Lei Jun, poached DeepSeek developer Luo Fuli to join Xiaomi's Artificial Intelligence development team. The news boosted investor sentiment on hopes that any AI development in Xiaomi will create a ripple effect on Kingsoft's business in cloud computing. Luo Fuli is poised to take on a leadership role in Xiaomi's large model team. Xiaomi plans to leverage her expertise in developing DeepSeek-V2 to improve the efficiency and user experience of its AI models, further advancing the company's capabilities in artificial intelligence. Overall KC ranks 8th on our list of Thursday's biggest advancers. While we acknowledge the potential of KC as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than KC but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and Complete List of 59 AI Companies Under $2 Billion in Market Cap. Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey. Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data
Japan Times
30-01-2025
- Business
- Japan Times
Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek-V3
BEIJING – Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it says surpasses the highly acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on not just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition. "Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit said in an announcement posted on its official WeChat account, referring to OpenAI and Meta's most advanced open-source AI models. The Jan. 10 release of DeepSeek's AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, as well as the Jan. 20 release of its R1 model, has shocked Silicon Valley and caused tech shares to plunge, with the Chinese startup's purportedly low development and usage costs prompting investors to question huge spending plans by leading AI firms in the United States. But DeepSeek's success has also led to a scramble among its domestic competitors to upgrade their own AI models. Two days after the release of DeepSeek-R1, TikTok owner ByteDance released an update to its flagship AI model, which it claimed outperformed Microsoft-backed OpenAI's o1 in AIME, a benchmark test that measures how well AI models understand and respond to complex instructions. This echoed DeepSeek's claim that its R1 model rivalled OpenAI's o1 on several performance benchmarks. The predecessor of DeepSeek's V3 model, DeepSeek-V2, triggered an AI model price war in China after it was released last May. The fact that DeepSeek-V2 was open-source and unprecedentedly cheap, only 1 yuan ($0.14) per 1 million tokens — or units of data processed by the AI model — led to Alibaba's cloud unit announcing price cuts of up to 97% on a range of models. Other Chinese tech companies followed suit, including Baidu, which released China's first equivalent to ChatGPT in March 2023, and the country's most valuable internet company Tencent. Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek's enigmatic founder, said in a rare interview with Chinese media outlet Waves in July that the startup "did not care" about price wars and that achieving AGI (artificial general intelligence) was its main goal. OpenAI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks. While large Chinese tech companies like Alibaba have hundreds of thousands of employees, DeepSeek operates like a research lab, staffed mainly by young graduates and doctorate students from top Chinese universities. Liang said in his July interview that he believed China's largest tech companies might not be well suited to the future of the AI industry, contrasting their high costs and top-down structures with DeepSeek's lean operation and loose management style. "Large foundational models require continued innovation, tech giants' capabilities have their limits," he said.
