A chatbot might not break a sweat every time you ask it to make your shopping list or come up with its best dad jokes. But over time, the planet might. As generative AI such as large language models ...

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 ...

Gemini is Google's personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. The company boasts that it can help you brainstorm, study, generate images for you, and connect with Google Maps to help you ...

AI systems require a lot of energy to function, but no one has exact numbers, especially not for individual chatbot queries. To address this, an engineer at Hugging Face built a tool to try to find ...

The energy consumption of the newest version of ChatGPT is significantly higher than previous models, with estimates suggesting it could be up to 20 times more energy-intensive than the first version.