In the mid-20th Century, we had the Space Race kick off, and in the mid-2020s, we're very much in the middle of the AI race. Nobody is sitting still, with parties all around the globe pushing for the next big advancements.
Chinese scientists are now making a big claim to have made one of their own. As reported by The Independent, SpikingBrain1.0 is a new large language model (LLM) out of China, which ordinarily might not be so exciting. But this isn't supposed to be any normal LLM. SpikingBrain1.0 is reported to be as much as 100x faster than current models such as those behind ChatGPT and Copilot.
