Spanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model | TechCrunch

Large language models have a problem: they are large. Multiverse computinga Spanish startup, is tackling this problem with compressed models that aim to close the gap between what frontier models can do and what companies can actually afford to deploy. The secret sauce is CompactifAI, a compression technology inspired by quantum computing that the Basque […]

AWS re:Invent was an all-in pitch for AI. Customers may not be ready for it. | TechCrunch

If Amazon Web Services’ annual re:Invent technology conference proves anything, it’s that the cloud infrastructure player is going all-in on AI. AWS has made dozens of announcements, from new AI agents and updated large language models to products with LLM and agent-building capabilities. Enterprise AI was everywhere. But are the customers just as enthusiastic? AWS […]

No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ it’s sexist, but it probably is | TechCrunch

In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie had a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks herself with reading her developer work in quantum algorithms and writing readme files and other documents for GitHub. She is a Pro subscriber and uses the service in ‘best’ mode, which means she chooses which underlying model to use […]