H2O.ai has announced that its h2oGPTe Agent has secured the top position on the GAIA (General AI Assistants) benchmark leaderboard with an unprecedented score of 65% — outperforming the Google Langfun Agent at 49%, Microsoft Research at 38%, and Hugging Face at...
Published on: December 26, 2024
Medical researchers have charted the performance of AI frameworks over time with tools that are used to measure dementia in humans.The peer-reviewed research, ‘Age against the machine’, showed that all the framework chatbots, from OpenAI’s GPT 4o to Google Gemini 1.5, show...
Published on: December 26, 2024
Honda is converting a powertrain plant in Japan to make fuel cell systems for hydrogen vehicles.The plant in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture, was closed in October 2024 but will now produce the next-generation fuel cell system being developed independently by Honda, starting...
Published on: December 26, 2024
The Japanese government has certified a negative electrode developed by Toyo Kohan for a solid state battery ahead of mass production.The certification, announced on Dec 25th, is part of the supply chain assurance scheme for batteries from the Ministry of Economy, Trade,...
Published on: December 26, 2024
The US is extending its trade sanctions against China to cover silicon carbide and legacy semiconductor devices on older process.The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced a Section 301 investigation on Christmas Eve to examine China’s targeting of foundational semiconductors (also...
Published on: December 25, 2024
Struggling German electric jet maker Lilium has found a buyer for its assets as it makes thousands of staff redundant.The last minute deal on Christmas Eve saw an asset purchase agreement with Mobile Uplift Corporation GmbH, a company set up by a...
Published on: December 25, 2024
MIT scientists have released a powerful, open-source AI model, called Boltz-1, that could significantly accelerate biomedical research and drug developmentDeveloped by a team of researchers in the MIT Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, Boltz-1 is the first fully open-source model that...
Published on: December 24, 2024
ARM is working with Mapbox in the US on a cloud-based Virtual Head Unit (VHU) for automotive designs.The design speeds up integration, testing, and validation of navigation systems by virtualising ARM-based in-vehicle hardware integrated with the Mapbox navigation stack. With the VHU,...
Published on: December 24, 2024
European startups are at the leading edge of the development of humanoid robots but are facing strong competition coming up from China as fast followers.In the same way that China capitalised on its development of motors and battery technology to dominate the...
Published on: December 24, 2024
Rigetti Computing in the US has launched its third generation Ankaa-3 quantum computer with an 84qubit processor and aims to have a 100qubit machine next year.The re-designed quantum computer achieves a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99%, halving the previous error rate.Ankaa-3 is...
Published on: December 23, 2024