AI is ‘accelerating the climate crisis,’ expert warns

AI is ‘accelerating the climate crisis,’ expert warns

MONTREAL: If you care about the environment, think twice about using AI.Generative artificial intelligence uses 30 times more energy than a traditional search engine, warns researcher Sasha Luccioni, on a mission to raise awareness about the environmental impact of the hot new technology.Recognized as one of the 100 most influential people in the world of … Read more

Alibaba’s AI model outperforms Chinese rivals, ranks just behind OpenAI, Anthropic

Alibaba’s AI model outperforms Chinese rivals, ranks just behind OpenAI, Anthropic

Qwen2-72B-Instruct – the most advanced version of the Hangzhou-based e-commerce giant’s Qwen family of large language models (LLMs), the open source version of Tongyi Qianwen – came in just behind OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet in a ranking from SuperClue, a benchmarking platform that evaluates models based on metrics such as calculations, logic … Read more

Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face

Alibaba’s large language model tops global ranking of AI developer platform Hugging Face

Three of the four top 10-ranked Chinese LLMs were from the Tongyi Qianwen series, also known as Qwen, developed by e-commerce and cloud computing giant Alibaba, according to AI and machine-learning developer platform Hugging Face, which released its updated leaderboard with new metrics on Wednesday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s Qwen-72B-Instruct … Read more