Mosqitter co-founder and CEO Anastasiia Romanova said the company plans to upgrade its chemical-free mosquito traps into an AI-powered monitoring network to identify mosquito species, track population changes and provide earlier warnings about disease risks. The company has over 5,000 devices deployed across five continents, up from about 250 in 2022.
On October 3, the inaugural Astana AI Film Festival announced its winners. Latvian director Nikolay Shestak won the grand prize of $450,000 for "The First Honest Day," followed by entries from India and Spain in second and third place. Chinese team 2xLabs took the Best Story Award for "The Last Span." The festival received 8,067 submissions from 125 countries and regions, with 25 finalists using over 80 generative AI models.
Asta has open-sourced AstaBrief 8B, a model that converts research questions and retrieved literature excerpts into cited reports, along with its training data. It is now available as Fast mode in Asta's Generate a report feature, reducing average report generation time from about 178.5 seconds to 51.1 seconds.