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Pentagon formalizes Palantir's Maven AI as a core military system with multi-year funding — platform's investment grows to $13 billion from $480 million in 2024
5+ hour, 54+ min ago (188+ words) The Pentagon is spending $13.4 billion on AI this year alone. Maven started under Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work in April 2017 as an effort to apply machine learning to drone surveillance footage. Google was the original technology partner, but withdrew…...
Qwen boss says Chinese AI models have 'less than 20%' chance of leapfrogging Western counterparts — despite China's $1 billion AI IPO week, capital can't close the gap alone
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (673+ words) After a rush of high-profile listings in Hong Kong, Chinese AI leaders are publicly warning that funding is not closing the gap with the U.S. China's AI sector made a splash this month as a cluster of domestic AI firms raised…...
Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years — Macrohard-branded Colossus 2 data center a nod to Musk's AI project to challenge Microsoft
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (532+ words) Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined within five years " Macrohard-branded Colossus 2 data center a nod to Musk's AI project to challenge Microsoft'Tom's Hardware Elon Musk took to social media to claim that xAI,…...