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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Diffbot, a small Silicon Valley company best known for maintaining one of the world’s largest indexes of web knowledge, announced today the release of a new AI model that promises to address one of the biggest challenges in the field: factual accuracy.The new model, a fine-tuned version of Meta’s LLama 3.3, is the first open-source implementation of a system known as graph retrieval-augmented generation, or GraphRAG.Unlike conventional AI models, which rely solely on vast amounts of preloaded training data, Diffbot’s LLM draws on real-time information from the company’s Knowledge Graph, a constantly updated database containing more than a trillion interconnected facts.“We have a thesis: that eventually general-purpose reasoning will get distilled down into about 1 billion parameters,” said Mike Tung, Diffbot’s founder and CEO, in an interview with VentureBeat. “You don’t actually want the knowledge in the model. You want the model to be good at just using tools so that it can query knowledge externally.”How it worksDiffbot’s Knowledge Graph is a sprawling, automated database that has been crawling the public web since 2016. It categorizes web pages into entities such as people, companies, products and articles, extracting structured information using a combination of computer vision and natural language processing.Every four to five days, the Knowledge Graph is refreshed with millions of new facts, ensuring it remains up-to-date

Diffbot’S Ai Model Doesn’T Guess — It Knows, Thanks To A Trillion-Fact Knowledge Graph

Diffbot'S Ai Model Doesn'T Guess - It Knows, Thanks To A Trillion-Fact Knowledge Graph

A long-standing feud between Google (GOOG, GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) is spilling into public view once again.The latest shot from Google came in a complaint filed with the European Commission Wednesday, accusing Microsoft of violating the European Union’s antitrust law.Google said in a document provided to Yahoo Finance that Microsoft illegally leveraged its dominant enterprise server software “Windows Server” licenses to force customers to stick with Microsoft for cloud computing.Microsoft predicted Google would "fail" in this instance, saying it had already settled similar concerns raised by European cloud providers."Having failed to persuade European companies, we expect Google similarly will fail to persuade the European Commission," a Microsoft spokesperson said.The new dispute demonstrates "this is a cold war that's gone hot," Adam Kovacevich, CEO and Founder of the tech policy advocacy group Chamber of Progress, told Yahoo Finance.Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai departs federal court last October after testifying in the largest antitrust case since the 1990s. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)'Scroogled'The two tech giants have spent the last two decades battling for supremacy in technologies ranging from online search and cloud computing to the markets for operating systems, gaming software, online advertising — and now artificial intelligence, or AI.The feud began in the first decade after Microsoft settled a landmark antitrust case brought by the US Justice Department alleging it boxed out rivals by making its browser free and the default on its dominant Windows operating system.A 2002 settlement opened the door to broader competition in the internet browser software market and created an opportunity for Google, then a startup formed by Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, to begin its period of meteoric growth in the 2000s.Microsoft defended its reestablished territory in a series of videos first released in 2011, in which Microsoft skewered Google with parodies suggesting that Google’s competing Gmail service, Chrome browser, and accompanying software lacked quality and privacy.A video titled “Gmail Man” questioned Google's ethics by accusing it of mining every word within its Gmail customers' private emails in order to target them with advertisements.In other videos titled "Scroogled" and "Googlighting" — a spoof on the 1980s hit television series "Moonlighting" — Microsoft questioned whether consumers should trust Google with handling their private information.In 2016, the companies entered into a ceasefire with an agreement to end regulatory complaints against each other globally as two new CEOs — Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella — took over.Story continuesThe pact came to an end in 2021 as regulators in the US and EU stepped up pressure on both companies, and Microsoft complained that Google used unfair tactics to compete in online search and advertising.'You brush your teeth, and you search on Google'Things really got uncomfortable last year during a high-profile antitrust trial that pitted Google against the US Justice Department — a case that alleged Google illegally monopolized the online search engine market and had echoes of the case the DOJ filed against Microsoft in the 1990s.The most prominent witness to testify against Google was Nadella, who did not hesitate to take a shot at his rival while on the stand.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (R) arrives at federal court last October to testify in Google's antitrust trial. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)“You get up in the morning, you brush your teeth, and you search on Google,” Nadella said, emphasizing Google’s overwhelming dominance in the search engine market.Nadella said Microsoft’s own search engine, Bing, failed to gain traction because Google had negotiated for Google Search to get default placement on browsers, desktops, and mobile devices like Apple's iPhones and iPads and Android-based smartphones made by Samsung and others.Nadella went on to describe the imbalance as a “vicious cycle” that he worried would intensify with the development of AI.Google lost the case in a judge’s ruling that labeled its search business an illegal monopoly. The resolution is now pending a remedies phase that could result in a breakup of Google’s empire.Microsoft certainly had a lot to gain from a Google defeat, Kovacevich said.“They were probably the main instigator of the US Justice Department's antitrust suit over Google,” Kovacevich said. “And the guilty verdict against Google probably stands to benefit Microsoft's Bing most of anyone.”Microsoft is taking a similar approach in yet another antitrust lawsuit against Google that is still in its initial trial phase. It argues there that Google’s control of online advertising technologies has harmed the success of its Bing browser.New feud before the EUIt's unknown if the EU will take up Google's most recent attack against Microsoft's cloud computing rules.Google is arguing that Microsoft imposed a 400% markup on customers to migrate their Windows Server licenses to a competing cloud service, while customers who chose Microsoft's cloud services, Azure, could migrate for “essentially nothing.”In making its case, Google is using the same sort of "bundling" or "tying" claims used in the 1998 case against Microsoft brought by the DOJ.Back then, US prosecutors alleged that Microsoft illegally monopolized the market for personal computing operating systems by using its Windows operating system to give away its browser, Internet Explorer, for free.The move bundled the browser along with Windows, eventually putting rival browser Netscape Navigator out of business.Then-Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in 2002 with his then-wife Melinda at the US District Courthouse in Washington, DC

The Cold War Between Google And Microsoft Has 'Gone Hot'

Nvidia and DuckDuckGo invest $50 million in AI search engine startup You.com.

Nvidia and DuckDuckGo Invest $50 Million in AI Search Engine Startup You.com

DuckDuckGo have rolled out a new service, DuckDuckGo AI Chat, that lets users benefit from AI chatbots without sacrificing their privacy.

DuckDuckGo AI Chat Provides Anonymous Access to AI Chatbots

DuckDuckGo introduces DuckAssist: A privacy-centric AI search feature.

DuckDuckGo Introduces DuckAssist: A Privacy-Centric AI Search Feature

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEDuckDuckGo, renowned for its privacy-focused search engine and web browser, has announced a new service that allows users to interact with popular AI chatbots privately and anonymously. The service, called DuckDuckGo AI Chat and accessible at Duck.ai, is globally available now.The interactions on Duck.ai are private because "neither DuckDuckGo nor the chatbot providers can use the users’ data to train their models," the company explains. They are also anonymous, as DuckDuckGo doesn’t require users to set up accounts, or provide personal information before start interacting with it.DuckDuckGo even strips away metadata, such as server or IP addresses, so that queries appear to originate from the company itself rather than individual users.Although the supported commercial AI chatbot providers—OpenAI and Anthropic—do keep access logs, DuckDuckGo says it has “agreements in place with all model providers to ensure that any saved chats are completely deleted by the providers within 30 days, and that none of the chats made on our platform can be used to train or improve the models.”That makes preserving privacy easier than changing the privacy settings for each service.Duck.ai features a light and clean user interface and lets users choose from the two commercial, closed-source models and two open-source models. The closed-source models are OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo, which powered the free version of ChatGPT until recently, and Claude 3 Haiku, Anthropic’s small version of its Claude 3 model. The open-source models are Meta’s Llama-3 70Bn and Mistral AI’s Mixture of Expert model Mixtral 8x7b.DuckDuckGo said it will add more models in the future, further expanding the range of options available to users.ADADThis new service is a welcome addition for privacy conscious individuals, joining the recent launch of Venice AI by Crypto founder Erik Voorhees

Duckduckgo Launches A Private Portal To Top Ai Chatbots

DuckDuckGo has launched a new AI Chat feature, a free and anonymous way to access popular AI chatbots like OpenAI's GPT 3.5 Turbo and Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku.

There's a New Way to Use ChatGPT: DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo launches free access to anonymous AI Chat with choice of four models.

DuckDuckGo launches free access to anonymous AI Chat with choice of four models

DuckDuckGo has launched private AI chats, allowing you to anonymously access AI models like GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 3 Haiku.

DuckDuckGo lets you anonymously access GPT-3.5 and other models by removing your IP address from your queries.

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