Since its launch in late 2022, ChatGPT has rocketed in popularity, with hundreds of millions of users, millions of paid subscribers, and propelling copycats like Google Gemini and most recently ...

New figures show that if the model’s energy-intensive “chain of thought” reasoning gets added to everything, the promise of efficiency gets murky. In the week since a Chinese AI model called DeepSeek ...

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The process of updating deep learning/AI models when they face new tasks or must accommodate changes in data can have significant costs in terms of computational resources and energy consumption.

With no fossil fuel reserves to rely on and domestic demand rising, the country had to get creative—or go broke just trying to keep the lights on. Here’s how they did it. Illustration by Tim Robinson.