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Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

This low-cost mission is still only getting started, and it's taking bigger risks than typical big-ticket NASA missions.
PRIMETIMER

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission tests how much risk low-cost space science can afford

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched in 2025 to study Mars’ magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped away the planet’s atmosphere over time ...
SpaceNews

Why NASA should apply the CLPS mindset to low-cost science missions, not just landers

NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) are bringing us closer than we’ve been in decades to regular lunar exploration and scientific discovery. As a scientist, I admire what these companies ...
The Economist

Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still

As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI) engineering. Three years on, experts are harder to impress. To really ...
Reuters

FACTBOX China's AI firms take spotlight with deals, low-cost models

BEIJING, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Alibaba's (9988.HK), opens new tab announcement this week that it will partner with Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab to support iPhones' artificial intelligence services ...
SiliconANGLE

Mistral AI adds Medium 3 to its family of models, claiming low cost and high performance

Paris-based artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI today announced the release of a new model, Mistral Medium 3, which the company said outperforms competitors at significantly lower cost. The ...