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1 day ago · OpenAI considered chain of thought a competitive advantage and hid it to prevent rivals from copying to train their models. But with R1 and other open models showing their full reasoning trace ...

2 days ago · Cognita.ai secures $15M Series A funding to transform enterprise AI implementation, reducing deployment time from 8 months to 12 weeks while delivering practical, measurable business outcomes ...

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Jan 14, 2025 · In 2024, thousands of startups emerged built on the powerful capabilities of cutting-edge large language models (LLMs). Statistically speaking, only one-fifth will survive to the end of 2025. To ...

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Jan 12, 2025 · The idea of using computers to assist student learning dates to the 1950s, with the first application —Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations (PLATO) — appearing in 1961. PLATO ...