ELYZA, an AI development company established by the Matsuo Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, released a Japanese-specific diffusion language model, ' ELYZA-LLM-Diffusion,' on January 16, 2026.

New funding will scale the development of faster, more efficient AI models for text, voice, and code Inception dLLMs have already demonstrated 10x speed and efficiency gains over traditional LLMs ...

With so much money flooding into AI startups, it’s a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out. And if the idea is novel enough, it might be easier to get the resources you need as an ...

As LLMs and diffusion models power more applications, their safety alignment becomes critical. Our research shows that even minimal downstream fine‑tuning can weaken safeguards, raising a key question ...

Type in a question to ChatGPT and an answer will materialise. Put a prompt into DALL-E 3 and an image will emerge. Click on TikTok’s “for you” page and you will be fed videos to your taste. Ask Siri ...

Google at Google Cloud Next 24 unveiled three open source projects for building and running generative AI models. The company also introduced new large language models to its MaxText project of ...

In a bold pivot that few industry watchers saw coming, Baidu—China’s leading AI powerhouse—has open-sourced its ERNIE 4.5 large language model (LLM) series under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Open source software has a number of benefits over commercial products, not least the fact that it can be downloaded for free. This means anyone can analyse the code and, assuming they have the right ...

The current AI model market, led by large language models (LLMs), is dominated by the U.S. and China. While American tech giants like OpenAI (ChatGPT), Google (Gemini), and Anthropic (Claude) have ...

AI art is controversial, to say the least, but usually when talking about “AI Art”, one is talking about diffusion models. This unsettling artpeice called “Latent Reflection” by [Rootkid] (video after ...