Nieman Journalism Lab

Publishers fight Big Tech with small local language models

As 2025 closes, referrals from social media and organic search are dead or dying, and generative AI is coming for facts. But 2026 may grant publishers an opportunity Silicon Valley has persistently ...
Nature

Large language models are biased — local initiatives are fighting for change

In early 2023, Álvaro Soto was looking for Las doce figuras del mundo, a short story co-written by one of his favourite authors, Jorge Luis Borges. To track down the book in which the story was ...

Are LTMs the next LLMs? This new type of AI can do what large-language models can’t

Fundamental, which just closed a $225 million funding round, develops ‘large tabular models’ for structured data like tables and spreadsheets. Large-language models (LLMs) have taken the world by ...

Are Large Language Models A Dead End Or Simply Incomplete?

Once a model is deployed, its internal structure is effectively frozen. Any real learning happens elsewhere: through retraining cycles, fine-tuning jobs or external memory systems layered on top. The ...

Malaysia's First Large Language Model based Synthetic Data Intelligence Platform with Agentic function, AxxonAI launched with healthcare partner Sancy Berhad

Athenatech AI Sdn Berhad (athenatech.ai ), one of Malaysia's top six AI start-ups to watch, today announced the launch of subsidiary AxxonAI (axxonai.com), a Large Language Model (LLM) based synthetic ...