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Reddit and OpenAI Build Partnership

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2 years ago

May 21, 2024

Maintaining an open internet is essential, and part of this openness means ensuring Reddit content is accessible to those fostering human learning and researching ways to build community, belonging, and empowerment online. Reddit is a uniquely large and vibrant community that has long been an important space for conversation on the internet. Additionally, using LLMs, ML, and AI allows Reddit to enhance the user experience for everyone.

In line with this, Reddit and OpenAI today announced a partnership to benefit both the Reddit and OpenAI user communities in various ways:

OpenAI will integrate Reddit content into ChatGPT and new products, helping users discover and engage with Reddit communities. To achieve this, OpenAI will access Reddit’s Data API, which provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit. This will enable OpenAI’s AI tools to better understand and highlight Reddit content, especially on current topics.

This partnership will also enable Reddit to introduce new AI-powered features for redditors and moderators. Reddit will leverage OpenAI’s platform of AI models to bring its innovative vision to life.

Additionally, OpenAI will become a Reddit advertising partner.

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Sri Lanka leads South Asia in AI job growth, ranks second in ChatGPT usage: World Bank

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3 months ago

October 27, 2025

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Sri Lanka has emerged as one of South Asia’s most AI-exposed economies, with strong growth in artificial intelligence–related jobs but also mounting risks of job displacement, according to the World Bank’s South Asia Development Update: Jobs, AI, and Trade (October 2025).

The report’s latest chapter, “Artificial Intelligence, Real Impact: Labor Market Implications of AI Adoption in South Asia,” finds that Sri Lanka and Bhutan have the highest AI exposure in the region, reflecting their relatively skilled and educated workforces.

“Within South Asia, exposure varies by country: Nepal has the lowest average exposure, while Bhutan and Sri Lanka exhibit the highest exposure rates, reflecting their relatively more skilled and educated workforces,” the report states.

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BYD breaks record for world’s fastest car

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4 months ago

September 26, 2025

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BYD’s Yangwang U9 “Xtreme” supercar recorded a blistering top speed of 496.22km/h (308 miles per hour) at a test track in Germany earlier this month, the Chinese EV maker said.

That’s a record for a production car, handily beating the 490.5 km/h (304.7 mph) set by Bugatti’s Chiron Super Sport in 2019 and marking the first time the title of world’s fastest car has been held by an EV.

The Xtreme is a high-performance version of Yangwang U9, BYD’s pothole-jumping hypercar, which costs around $233,000 in China.

BYD said just 30 units of the ultra-fast variant, which features an upgraded powertrain and battery system, will be made.

It means that as well as boasting the world’s cheapest EVs, China is now home to the fastest.

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Sri Lanka launches largest Sinhala LLM with 10 million sentences (SinLlama)

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5 months ago

August 30, 2025

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Research students at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa have developed the country’s first large-scale large language model (LLM) that exclusively include Sinhala, a breakthrough in advancing local language computing.

This project was jointly supervised by Dr Surangika Ranathunga (Massey University, New Zealand), Dr Nisansa de Silva (University of Moratuwa) and Dr Rishemjit Kaur (Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, India).

The model, named “SinLlama,” was built by continually pre-training Llama-3-8B with nearly 10 million Sinhala sentences. According to the research team, SinLlama is the largest Sinhala LLM to date and has already outperformed Llama-3-8B on Sinhala text classification benchmarks.