TOKYO, 5th March, 2025 (WAM) – The grand roof at the venue for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, was recognised as the world's largest wooden architectural structure by Guinness ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, into space orbit. The man-made craft sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its batteries ...

Chinese cloud provider Alibaba has released four versions of its video-generation AI model as open source, allowing users to download and run them for free on capable PCs. The Wan2.1 text-to-video ...

The model is now open-source, making it accessible to researchers, developers, and businesses worldwide. Wan 2.1 is designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs.

To drive adoption, Microsoft has brought unlimited free access to OpenAI's o1 reasoning model on Copilot for all users. You can use the "Think Deeper" tool on Copilot which is powered by the o1 model, ...

The Qwen team said that QwQ-Max-Preview – built on the most advanced model of the series, the Qwen 2.5-Max introduced last month – displayed stronger and more versatile reasoning and problem ...

Sarvam AI, in Bengaluru, is exploring building on top of open-source models. Its Sarvam 1 model was built entirely from scratch, explains co-founder Vivek Raghavan, “but other models may be a ...

UK-listed Wood has announced that it has received a takeover approach from the United Arab Emirates’ Sidara, nine months after it abandoned a previous attempt to acquire the Aberdeen ...

This comes after a failed attempt by private equity firm Apollo to acquire Wood Group in 2023. Despite having four previous offers turned down, Apollo proposed a £1.68bn deal, equivalent to 240p ...

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has released Wan 2.1, its open-source video foundation model, along with the code and weights. The model can generate videos with complex motions that accurately simulate ...

BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba (9988.HK), opens new tab said on Wednesday its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence model Wan 2.1 is now publicly ...