Reddit is ramping up efforts to attract users outside the US
- Reddit has a special focus on India, Brazil, etc.
- Audience growth is needed to grow the advertising business
- Now 50% of its audience is outside the US
- For a number of other platforms, the figure is 80-90%
- Historically, Reddit has always been an English-language platform
- It recently launched an automatic translation feature.
- By the end of the year, the feature will support 20-30 languages
- The fastest growing markets are the UK, Philippines, India and Brazil
- These markets can help it increase its ad revenue
- International markets account for 17% of Reddit's revenue so far
- Reddit is willing to build ad teams within countries
- It creates them when it reaches 10% of internet users there
- Reddit also wants to improve search on its platform
- Search will become a “focused investment” beyond 2025
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Orange has engaged OpenAI to develop AI in African languages
- Orange will be partnered with OpenAI and Zuckerberg's company
- Together, they will create customized AI models for the region
- The models will understand regional African languages
- The new models will be based on versions of Whisper and Llama
- These models can be customized for specific tasks
- So far, most systems do not recognize the languages of the region
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Alibaba launches opensource competitor to OpenAI's o1 model
- The Qwen team at Alibaba has developed a new model
- It is about the “reasoning” model QwQ-32B-Preview
- This model can compete with o1 from OpenAI
- Qwen's AI model contains 32.5 billion parameters
- It can handle queries of up to 32,000 words
- The model outperforms o1-preview and o1-mini in a number of tests.
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