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Byte-pair encoding: watch a model chop text into tokens
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Type some text and slide from characters to words. This is byte-pair encoding, the exact way GPT-style models turn your writing into the tokens they read.
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The Paris AI Action Summit and a governance split (2025)
In February 2025 Paris hosted the AI Action Summit. Some 60 countries signed a declaration on inclusive, sustainable AI, but the United States and United Kingdom refused, exposing a rift over how to govern the technology.
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The Stargate Project: a $500 billion bet on AI infrastructure (2025)
In January 2025, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX announced Stargate, a plan to invest up to $500 billion in US AI data centers, just as DeepSeek was questioning the cost of compute.
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DeepSeek-R1 and the efficiency shock (2025)
A Chinese startup released an open-weights reasoning model that rivaled the best at a fraction of the reported cost, and on January 27, 2025 it wiped a record sum off Nvidia's value.