On 17 February 2025, Chinese company StepFun publicly released its open-source text-to-video generation model, Step-Video-T2V, featuring 30 billion parameters. Positioned as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s Sora, the model interprets bilingual (English and Chinese) text prompts and can generate videos of up to 204 frames in 544×992 resolution.
The Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on 26th January 2023 is gaining increasing significance in regulating GenAI. The framework is built on four primary functions—governance, mapping, measurement, and management—which assist organisations in developing and evaluating trustworthy
Perplexity announced its new AI-based web browser, Comet, on 24th February 2025, which the company claims will revolutionise internet browsing, just as they previously redefined search. In its post on the X social platform, the company characterised the product as automated intelligent searching and has already launched a waiting list
The United States Copyright Office issued a landmark statement on copyright protection for works created with artificial intelligence in January 2025. After processing 10,000 professional observations, the office concluded that AI-assisted creations may enjoy legal protection provided they contain a sufficient degree of human creativity, whilst purely AI-generated works
Apple announced on 24th February 2025 that it will invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years. According to the company's statement, this represents the largest investment commitment of all time, which includes a new 23,225 square metre server processing facility
OpenAI announced on 25th February 2025 that it is making its Deep Research feature available to all paying ChatGPT users. The advanced research tool, which is based on the o3 model and was previously accessible only to Pro users, is now available to Plus (for $20 per month), Team, Edu,
Anthropic unveiled the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model on 24th February 2025, the first hybrid reasoning model on the market with a novel thinking capability. This new feature allows the model to dedicate more time and computational resources to solving complex problems whilst making the thinking process visible to users.
According to the plan unveiled in January by the Centre for Future Generations research institute, a €35 billion initial investment would create an international research centre for European artificial intelligence development. In line with former ECB President Mario Draghi's comprehensive technology report, the proposal suggests establishing an institution
Generative AI relies on a specialised branch of machine learning (ML), namely deep learning (DL) algorithms, which employ neural networks to detect and exploit patterns embedded within data. By processing vast volumes of information, these algorithms are capable of synthesising existing knowledge and applying it creatively. As a result, generative
Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI or GenAI) tools represent an emerging branch of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms (Tan et al. 2024, 168). In contrast to traditional AI models, which typically categorise data or make predictions based on learned patterns (Turchi et al. 2023, 35), generative AI extends beyond the mere
The AI Builders Summit 2025 event series showcased the latest directions in artificial intelligence development over four weeks, from large language models (LLMs) to AI agents. During the virtual event organized by ODSC between January 15 and February 6, 2025, hundreds of participants tracked the evolution of various AI technologies,
Gartner’s 2024 Technology Hype Cycle—which outlines the dynamics of expectations surrounding technological innovations across five distinct phases—indicates that generative AI has surpassed the peak of inflated expectations. Nevertheless, the associated hype remains persistent (see figure below), and the technology continues to hold the potential to become truly
