News and Analysis from the Era of Large Language Models
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) represents a paradigm shift in natural language processing (NLP), integrating large language models (LLMs) with dynamic information retrieval systems to produce responses that are both contextually enriched and factually grounded (Lewis et al. 2020). At its core, the RAG architecture couples a conventional generative model—one that
On July 7, 2023, writers Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden filed a class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms in the Northern District Court of California, claiming that the company used their books without permission to train its Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA), which was released in February
Netflix began testing a new artificial intelligence-powered search engine in April 2025, based on OpenAI's technology. As Bloomberg announced on 13 April 2025, the streaming giant has made this new tool available only to certain subscribers for now, who must explicitly opt in to use the feature. The
AI infrastructure startup Parasail officially launched its AI Deployment Network platform on 2 April 2025, offering real-time, on-demand access to GPU resources, including Nvidia's H100, H200, A100, and 4090 GPUs, at significantly lower costs than traditional cloud providers. The company's proprietary orchestration engine automatically matches workloads
OpenAI announced in early April 2025 that it is participating in a $43 million Series A funding round for New York-based Adaptive Security, marking the company's first investment in the cybersecurity sector. The funding, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the OpenAI Startup Fund, aims to develop defences
On 25 March 2025, Google officially announced the release of TxGemma, a collection of open models designed to improve the efficiency of therapeutic development. Based on Gemma 2, TxGemma is available in three sizes (2B, 9B, and 27B parameters) and has been specifically trained to understand and predict the properties
Saudi Arabia's Alinma Bank announced a partnership with IBM on 20 February 2025 to create an advanced API platform that enhances the bank's IT infrastructure and opens new revenue streams. The collaboration implements IBM's advanced hybrid cloud and AI integration technologies, aligning with Saudi
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3, a family of eight new AI models, on April 28, 2025, with its flagship 235 billion parameter Qwen3-235B-A22B model outperforming OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 on several benchmarks, while approaching Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. The models feature "hybrid reasoning&
On 9 April 2025, Anthropic announced its new premium subscription tier for its Claude AI assistant, named Max, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s $200 ChatGPT Pro service. The Max subscription is available in two pricing tiers: $100 per month for five times the usage limit of
According to court filings released on 14 February 2025, Meta suspended licensing negotiations with book publishers in April 2023 after most publishers showed little interest or lacked the necessary rights to provide AI training data. The newly submitted documents in the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms case—a class action lawsuit
Anthropic's research team published a study in April 2025 revealing alarming results about reasoning AI models: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 models failed to mention factors influencing their answers in their Chain-of-Thought reasoning 75% and 61% of the time respectively. Researchers embedded six different types of
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed at the TED2025 conference on 11 April 2025 that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, representing approximately 10% of the world's population. The company's image generation feature launched on 25 March has driven extraordinary growth, with the platform gaining
