Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the chatbot ChatGPT, have become so advanced that they now very nearly match or exceed human performance in tasks including reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, according to a new report (see ‘Speedy advances’). Rapid progress in the development of these systems also means that many common benchmarks … Read more
I’m a big proponent of the Backbone One mobile controller. It’s perfect for top native mobile titles like Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile and Genshin Impact, but is also easily one of the best Xbox Game Pass streaming accessories on the market – or so I thought. Although the controller’s original design is a few … Read more
This Beats Solo 4 image appeared in the iOS 17.4 beta release. Photo: Apple Recent clues in iOS beta software plus a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing by Apple suggest new Beats Solo 4 headphones may ship as soon as early May, according to reports. Given that Beats Solo 3 launched in 2016, well, it’s … Read more
Apple’s Beats brand is known for participating in collaborations with various designers and others for special editions of Beats earphones and headphones, and the latest partnership is with luxury activewear brand Alo Yoga for a unique version of Beats Fit Pro. The Beats x Alo Special Edition Beats Fit Pro come in a standard matte … Read more
Apple is working on a new version of the popular Beats Solo on-ear headphones, and it looks like we are getting closer to a potential launch date. FCC documents for the Beats Solo 4 headphones were found today, and that typically happens in the weeks ahead of a debut. Signs of the Beats Solo 4 … Read more
Apple is planning to release a new version of the Beats Solo 4 headphones, and hints of the refresh have been seen in both iOS updates and FCC filings in recent weeks. We’ve already seen the design and some of the features, with rumors pointing to support for Spatial Audio, but the headphones’ full specs … Read more
Just as we thought the artificial intelligence (AI) model arena was settling down a little, Anthropic has launched Claude 3 which is capable of outperforming ChatGPT in a number of areas. Claude 3 is available in three distinct models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, each offering its own unique capabilities. Opus is the most powerful and … Read more
Mistral AI has launched a new flagship AI model called Mistral Large, which has demonstrated superior performance over GPT-3.5 and Llama2-70B across all benchmarks. This model is currently the world’s second-ranked and is available through an API on Azure and Mistral AI’s platform. Despite its closed-source nature, Mistral Large offers cutting-edge text generation and reasoning … Read more
Developers, coders and those of you learning to program might be interested to know that the latest Code Llama 70B large language model released by Meta and specifically designed to help you improve your coding. Has apparently beaten OpenAI’s ChatGPT when asking for coding advice, code snippets and coding across a number of different programming … Read more
The world of artificial intelligence has witnessed another remarkable milestone with the release of the new Zephyr-7B AI model on Hugging Face. This innovative model is a fine-tuned successor to the original Mistral 7B, and it has managed to outperform larger 70 billion parameter models, even while being uncensored. The company has also unveiled a … Read more