Matthias Bastian

Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER, exploring how AI is fundamentally changing the relationship between humans and computers.

Matthias Bastian

Mar 16, 2025

Baidu claims its Ernie X1 reasoning model matches Deepseek-R1 performance at half the price

The Chinese search and Internet company Baidu presents the latest version of its chatbot Ernie, which is supposed to deliver significantly better results than before. It also gets support for plugins.

Matthias Bastian

Mar 15, 2025

OpenAI says Elon Musk "is finding out, facts matter - especially in court"

Matthias Bastian

Mar 15, 2025

Apple's Siri delays reveal broader challenges of scaling generative AI

Apple's Siri fail shows the tech giants' AI scaling dilemma

Matthias Bastian

Mar 14, 2025

Chinese AI jewel Deepseek reportedly restricts employee travel amid AI security concerns

Some developers of the Chinese AI start-up Deepseek have apparently had to surrender their passports and are no longer allowed to leave China without further ado, probably due to concerns about data loss or takeovers. Since the success of the "R1" AI model, Deepseek has become increasingly important to China's government: CEO Liang Wenfeng has been invited to talks with high-ranking politicians and local authorities are already using the software. China's authorities generally advise leading AI experts not to travel to the USA in order to prevent sensitive information being leaked abroad or experts being put under pressure there.

Matthias Bastian

Mar 14, 2025

Most AI researchers are skeptical about language models achieving AGI

A new study indicates that AI researchers largely doubt current artificial intelligence approaches will lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI), even as the technology continues advancing.

Matthias Bastian

Mar 14, 2025

OpenAI and Anthropic raise alarm over China's Deepseek in warnings to US government

In their responses to the US government's call for an "AI Action Plan", leading US AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI warn against the Chinese AI model Deepseek R1 - albeit for different reasons.

Matthias Bastian

Mar 13, 2025

Google opens up its AI Deep Research feature to all users for free "a few times a month"

Matthias Bastian

Mar 13, 2025

Xbox's AI Copilot to provide real-time gameplay guidance through natural conversation

Xbox introduces AI-powered gaming co-pilot as a digital gaming advisor

Matthias Bastian

Mar 13, 2025

Google adds search history integration to personalize Gemini AI

Google is adding a personalized function to its AI assistant Gemini: with users' permission, Gemini analyses their Google search history to provide more relevant answers. The new function uses Google's experimental AI model Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Users can activate personalization, deactivate it at any time and track which data has been used. Following the launch for Gemini subscribers on the web, Google plans to extend personalization to Google Photos and YouTube soon to make Gemini a comprehensive personal assistant.

Matthias Bastian

Mar 13, 2025

AI expert Andrej Karpathy envisions a web where 99.9% of content is optimized for AI, not humans