Perplexity

Perplexity says nine models failed to break out of its sandbox 118 times, and its own report counts 108 runs

CoreWeave, Akamai and Crusoe plan to offer it. Network restrictions were bypassed in 11 of 54 runs before the company patched them.

Nvidia's new open model activates 12 billion of its 120 billion parameters, and the small one is quantised down to 24GB

Nvidia released two open models on Wednesday: a 120-billion-parameter multimodal one for servers, and a 74-billion-parameter one squeezed into 24GB of memory with two-bit weights.

Perplexity's two new search models share one embedding space, so the small one can query the big one's index

Index with the 9B model, answer live queries with the 0.6B one, and the company says you recover roughly half the quality gap at no extra query cost.

Perplexity has opened a 27-billion-parameter model that answers with a probability instead of a sentence

It is the third decision model released in two days, after Amazon's Strands Decider and Cloudflare's Clef. The category did not exist in March.

Google is appealing the EU orders that would hand anonymised Search data to AI chatbots and open 11 Android features

An appeal does not suspend the orders: Google must still finalise the anonymised dataset by November, long before any judgment.

Britain's competition regulator wants ChatGPT and Perplexity on the choice screen Google must show Android users

The CMA has rewritten the eligibility rules for Google's search choice screen so that an AI assistant can take a slot on it. Consultation closes on 9 October.