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Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Microsoft researchers say new bitnet can run on CPUs, TechCrunch reports
Microsoft (MSFT) researchers claim they've developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a 'bitnet,' to date. Called BitNet b1.58 2B4T, it's openly available under an MIT license and can run on CPUs, including Apple's (AAPL) M2, TechCrunch's Kyle Wiggers reports. The Microsoft researchers say that BitNet b1.58 2B4T is the first bitnet with 2 billion parameters, 'parameters' being largely synonymous with 'weights.' Trained on a data set of 4 trillion tokens, BitNet b1.58 2B4T outperforms traditional models of similar sizes, the researchers claim. According to the researchers' testing, the model surpasses Meta's (META) Llama 3.2 1B, Google's (GOOGL) Gemma 3 1B, and Alibaba's (BABA) Qwen 2.5 1.5B on benchmarks including GSM8K and PIQA, the author says. Discover outperforming stocks and invest smarter with Top Smart Score Stocks. Filter, analyze, and streamline your search for investment opportunities using Tipranks' Stock Screener. Published first on TheFly – the ultimate source for real-time, market-moving breaking financial news. Try Now>> See Insiders' Hot Stocks on TipRanks >> Read More on MSFT: Disclaimer & DisclosureReport an Issue S&P 500 Index Dips on Nvidia's China Chip Ban Update Dow Jones Index Today: Nvidia Leads a Tech Stock Drop Nvidia Driver Update: Major Bug Fixes in Version 576.02 My Test Drive of OpenAI's Sora Reveals Seismic Shift for Entertainment Stocks Microsoft price target lowered to $475 from $500 at Mizuho
South China Morning Post
05-02-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Artificial Einstein: ByteDance's viral AI video model brings photos to life
ByteDance , the tech giant behind TikTok , has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) model that is gaining widespread attention for its ability to transform photos and sound bites into realistic videos, underscoring China's growing capabilities in the field. The company's OmniHuman-1 multimodal model can create vivid videos of people speaking, singing, and moving with a quality 'significantly outperforming existing audio-conditioned human video-generation methods', the ByteDance team behind the product said in a paper. AI-generated images, videos and audio of real people are often referred to as deepfakes, a technology becoming more prominent in cases of fraud as well as more harmless uses for entertainment. ByteDance has become one of the hottest AI companies in China. Its Doubao app is currently the most popular consumer-facing AI app in the country. It has not released the OmniHuman-1 to the public yet, but sample clips have gone viral. One notable demo features a 23-second video of Albert Einstein delivering a speech. TechCrunch's Kyle Wiggers described the app's output as 'shockingly good' and 'perhaps the most realistic deepfake videos to date'. The model highlights the advancements Chinese developers are making despite Washington's efforts to curb the country's AI progress. The launch follows OpenAI widening the release of its video-generation tool Sora, which was made publicly available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users in December.
