Quantization can slash AI model sizes by 75% with minimal quality loss at 8-bit and 4-bit precision, but pushing compression to 2-bit causes near-total collapse, with 97% of benchmark questions going unanswered and responses devolving into incoherent loops, according to new testing on Qwen3.5 9B.
Google's TurboQuant is revolutionizing AI efficiency, slashing large language model memory usage by over 5x and boosting speed up to 8x with zero accuracy loss, using a data-oblivious quantization algorithm requiring no dataset-specific tuning — maintaining perfect retrieval accuracy across 104,000 tokens in benchmark tests.
OpenAI surpasses $120 billion in total funding, blowing past its $100 billion target with backers like Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, as the AI giant eyes a potential IPO and makes tough cuts — including shutting down its Sora video app — to prioritize profitability.
New research reveals that base large language models possess strong semantic confidence accuracy, but popular techniques like fine-tuning and chain-of-thought reasoning actively destroy this calibration, raising urgent questions about the reliability of widely deployed AI systems.
OpenAI launches a $1 billion philanthropic push through its non-profit Foundation, targeting life sciences, economic impact, and community programs, but critics argue the tech giant is simply funding fixes to problems its own AI is creating.
OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from startup Helion by 2035, a landmark deal that could reshape AI's power future — though key milestones, including a production site, remain unresolved.
OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from startup Helion, targeting 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035, as skyrocketing AI energy demands push the US toward a 13-gigawatt power shortfall by 2028.
Cisco launches its LLM Security Leaderboard, revealing Anthropic's Claude models dominate AI safety rankings with 8 of the top 10 spots, while Mistral, DeepSeek, and other major providers fall dangerously to the bottom in resistance to adversarial attacks.
OpenAI is racing to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by 2026, aggressively expanding across engineering, research, and sales as rival Anthropic gains ground, with businesses now 70% more likely to choose Anthropic for first-time AI purchases.
Cursor faces backlash after launching Composer 2 as a 'frontier' coding model without disclosing it's built on Kimi 2.5, a Chinese open-source AI, with co-founder Aman Sanger now admitting the lack of transparency was a mistake amid growing U.S.-China AI tensions.