Alibaba launched a new artificial intelligence model that the company says can understand images and hold more complex conversations than the company’s previous products, as the global race for technology leadership heats. The Chinese tech giant said its two new models, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, are open source, meaning researchers, researchers and companies around the world…
Threads, a Meta Twitter clone that launched last month and quickly climbed the app charts, is going viral and giving users access to their computers. Threads.net is not yet available to everyone and may still only show a link to download the mobile app. A Meta spokesperson said, “The Company will release the online version…
According to LinkedIn’s latest Future of Work report, Singaporean workers are the fastest adopters of AI skills in the world. The report, which collected data from 25 countries, found that Singapore has the highest “spread”, with a 20-fold increase in the proportion of members adding AI skills to their profiles since January 2016. According to…
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, catalogs the fates of the Soviet Union’s first 11 space missions before the spacecraft successfully landed on the moon as stuck, failed, missed, failed, failed, stuck, failed, crashed, missed, crashed and crashed. Even today—there have been nine moon landings since 2013—achievements are mixed. It just…
