🤖 In the Weights Launches AI Vanity Search, DeepSeek vs Domestic LLMs in Cost War - AI Daily Brief (Jun 21, 06:00)
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⚡ China's cost war, Microsoft reprices Europe, UK cloud flop, Yandex open-sources search, IPO freeze.
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🤖 Ex-OpenAI Staff Launch AI 'Ego Search' Tool to Measure Your Weight in LLMs
Ex-OpenAI staffers Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn launched "In the Weights," scoring how 13 LLMs remember personal info by asking "Who are you?"—a TechCrunch blogger scored 641, top 6%. It exposes emergent capabilities in model memorization and raises privacy stakes for individuals.
Source ↗ - Technology Policy
⚖️ UK to use facial scans for asylum age checks next year, admits tech often misjudges kids & has bigger bias against Africans
UK Home Office's facial age estimation tech, set to launch next year, frequently misclassified children as adults in internal tests, with higher error rates for Sub-Saharan Africans. For AI security and public governance, algorithmic bias and ethics review are becoming stricter gatekeepers than accuracy alone.
Source ↗ - Technology
🤖 China's LLMs Ignite Cost War: Training & Inference Cuts Challenge US Dominance
Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek slash training & inference costs, matching US LLM performance with far less compute. For devs, high-value domestic alternatives are mature; for investors, AI's tech power & capital flow are accelerating from Silicon Valley to East Asia.
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- 🤖 Viral doomsday scenario jolts Europe, warns AI lags behind US and China, urges end to complacency
- 🤖 Yandex Open-Sources YaFF Zero-Copy Wire Format, Protobuf Reads Faster With 10-20% CPU Savings
- 🤖 Anthropic IPO Squeezed: Investor Enthusiasm Meets Political Reality