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Zeiss is expanding its Oberkochen, Germany semiconductor manufacturing facility by approximately 25,000 square meters of production space, four years after groundbreaking. This expansion directly increases production capacity for optics critical to ASML's EUV lithography scanners, which are essential for advanced chip manufacturing.
Read original →A German AI consortium released Soofi S, a 30-billion-parameter open-source language model that ranks at or near the top on multilingual benchmarks for English and German. The model's disclosure of training data contamination in version 3.0 highlights ongoing tensions between benchmark validity and competitive AI development practices.
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