Image created with OpenAI gpt-image-1. Image prompt: Single-panel cartoon with loose, hand‑inked lines, bean‑bodied figures, muted flat colors, minimal props, and deadpan humor: Airport customs for ideas. Thought bubbles line up with passports while a bored official stamps “global”. Large bold title text centered at top: “INTERNATIONAL” Muted colors, flat shading, black ink outlines. 16:9. Caption: “Languages wait in customs.”
“Look at this. Top 20 research leaders: 2015 period: 12 USA, 2 Japan, 2 UK, 2 China, 1 Canada, 1 Switzerland 2023 period: 11 China, 4 USA, 2 Germany, 1 France, 1 Japan, 1 UK did you realize that the ranking flipped in 8 years? That they *no longer depend on* US schools or “IP”? https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1915120490768998524
Baidu launches new AI model amid mounting competition | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/baidu-launches-new-ai-model-amid-mounting-competition-2025-04-25/
UAE set to use AI to write laws in world first https://archive.md/ubZAW
UAE to use AI for writing laws https://www.techinasia.com/news/uae-ai-writing-laws
Distilling DeepSeek-R1 intelligence into local models with HP AI Studio
https://reinvent.hp.com/ai-studio-may-1
“job applications for my company include a field asking which country they reside in and sometimes people include other things in the field besides the country like a sad face because they realize even though they’re a genius it is such a huge barrier to working here” / X https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1914107346177102143
China’s Baidu says its Kunlun chip cluster can train DeepSeek-like models | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-baidu-says-its-kunlun-chip-cluster-can-train-deepseek-like-models-2025-04-25/
“TSMC responds to the allegation that it knowingly supplied Huawei with 910B dies: if it ever happened, it happened legally, in… 2020. Lol. Ok? (p.s. it’s funny how everything is about DeepSeek. I keep telling you bros, more where that came from) https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1915295046930223312
Exclusive: Huawei readies new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks Nvidia alternatives, sources say | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/huawei-readies-new-ai-chip-mass-shipment-china-seeks-nvidia-alternatives-sources-2025-04-21/
South Korea’s AI Chip Champion Is Poised To Carve Out Global Niche https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkang/2025/04/14/south-koreas-ai-chip-champion-is-poised-to-carve-out-global-niche/
BMW to integrate DeepSeek AI in its new vehicles in China later this year | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/bmw-integrate-deepseek-ai-its-new-vehicles-china-later-this-year-2025-04-23/
“It’s deeply concerning that one of the best AI researchers I’ve worked with, @kaicathyc, was denied a U.S. green card today. A Canadian who’s lived and contributed here for 12 years now has to leave. We’re risking America’s AI leadership when we turn away talent like this.” / X https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1915765141846515883
“Will you be at #ICLR2025 in Singapore this week? 🇸🇬 Sakana AI will be presenting several works. Come chat with our researchers! 🐙🐟🐠🐡 🧵 Scroll down this thread to see our list of presentations at @iclr_conf 👇 https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1914190722552746304
“We should host more top ML conferences (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS) in Asia” / X https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1914858790455009569
“@iclr_conf ICLR 2025 participants by country, and paper-count / acceptance-rate. https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1915341552332808383
Alibaba steps up AI adoption in auto industry with Nio, BMW deals | South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3306468/alibaba-steps-ai-adoption-auto-industry-nio-bmw-deals
“Special call out for help: We’ve been in contact with the @deepseek_ai team to potentially do a talk (in Chinese) but unfortunately the… situation… has changed We -still- want good DeepSeek infra+model speakers – ofc you don’t have to work at deepseek to do this! Please https://x.com/swyx/status/1913818917765870050
“8. Seedream 3.0 @ByteDanceOSS Presents a bilingual (Chinese-English) image generation model with major improvements in visual fidelity, text rendering, and native high-resolution outputs up to 2K https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1914448564828430361
“China’s Kling AI released two new models: KLING 2.0 Master for video generation and KOLORS 2.0 for images Both come with improved prompt adherence, with KLING 2.0 standing out when dealing with prompts with sequential actions and complex motions https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1912744268059254826
“«DeepSeek to remain open-source to benefit the world» – Zhang Hanhui, the Chinese Ambassador to Russia, for the Russian state-owned news agency TASS, 14th Apr 2025 I didn’t know ambassadors get to decide this, but thanks man! https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1914204333857509488
“Finetuning on raw DeepSeek R1 reasoning traces makes models overthink. One of our early s1 versions was overthinking so much, it questioned the purpose of math when just asking what’s 1+1😁 Retro-Search by @GXiming & team reduces overthinking + improves performance!” / X https://x.com/Muennighoff/status/1914768451618660782
“Perplexity serves MoEs like post-trained versions of DeepSeek-v3. These models can be made to utilize GPUs efficiently in multi-node settings, achieving high throughput and low latency simultaneously, compared to single-node deployments. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1913309684397908399
“Alibaba released Wan 2.1-FLF2V-14B, an open-source AI for video generation What makes this model unique is its ability to let users control their generations with first and last frame inputs The result is 720p cinematic clips with smooth transitions! https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1914201312222118346
“We’re publishing new queryable datasets to help researchers explore interpretable features in DeepSeek R1. https://x.com/GoodfireAI/status/1915802798513598490
“Fully sharded systems use fixed strategies, ignoring dynamic memory changes during training. DeepCompile compiles models into graphs, using profiling-guided passes to flexibly time operations based on runtime memory. It boosts Llama 3 70B/Mixtral 8x7B training up to https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1914866314122015149
Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology https://news.mit.edu/2025/making-ai-generated-code-more-accurate-0418
“The Qwen Chat APP is now available for both iOS and Android users! It’s free to use and designed to assist with creativity, collaboration, and endless possibilities. Just ask, and let Qwen Chat handle the rest. Scan the QR code to quickly access the Qwen Chat APP! https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1915761990703697925
