Military chatbot powered by Meta AI is pitched as a friendly airstrike helper
AI startup Scale AI is advertising a customized AI chatbot for use in the military called “Defense Llama,” powered by Llama 3 LLM. On a marketing page on Scale AI’s website, a theoretical chat showed...
A tangled web of companies have a stake in the biggest AI companies. Dive in and see
Billions of investment dollars are flowing into the coffers of AI startups as the industry scrambles to bet big on which company will dominate the industry in the years to come. Each week brings repor...
Amazon is doubling its investment in Anthropic, OpenAI’s rival, to $8 billion
Amazon is throwing another $4 billion at Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executives, intensifying Big Tech’s generative-AI arms race.
Nvidia thinks it has a way to grind plateaus into vertical scale. Trillions of dollars are riding on it
In the past few weeks, there’s been a lot of chatter in the AI world that the current method of building increasingly powerful models may be reaching its limits . The current “scaling law” of today’s ...
Musk’s xAI seeking a $50 billion valuation is a lesson in chutzpah
It’s a good time to fundraise for an AI startup: less than two months after OpenAI raised $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation, CNBC reported that Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is raising $6 billio...
OpenAI models may be starting to plateau
Word from inside OpenAI is that the company’s next-gen “Orion” model may not yield the performance leap that was expected. A new report from The Information reveals that the company may be shifting st...
OpenAI takes its assault on Google to the next level by rolling out ChatGPT Search
ChatGPT now has a full-fledged search engine. Today OpenAI announced ChatGPT Search , a new feature built into the company’s ChatGPT AI tool, which opens a new front in the company’s competition with ...
Anthropic’s new Claude AI can control your computer, and sometimes it just does whatever it wants to
Today generative-AI company Anthropic released an upgraded version of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, alongside a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. The surprising new feature of Sonnet is the ability to contr...
Perplexity sued by Dow Jones & New York Post
Last week, sent a cease and desist notice to AI startup Perplexity, telling the company to stop including the newspaper’s content in its AI powered search bot results. Now the parent companies of The...
Perplexity is on a fundraising hot streak
How hot is the AI-startup fundraising market right now? If you’re an AI-search company, it’s really, really hot. On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that AI startup Perplexity is in talks to r...
OpenAI is in the business of making OpenAI employees rich
Since OpenAI closed its massive $6.6 billion funding round that valued the company at $157 billion, I’ve been wondering how they managed to convince investors that the valuation makes sense. The answe...
Here are the ways that bad actors have been using ChatGPT
While OpenAI advertises how ChatGPT can be used for such innocuous tasks as “tell me a fun fact about the Roman Empire” and “create a morning routine to boost my productivity,” malicious groups abroad...
One thing AI is already taking over: the Nobel Prize
2024’s second AI-related Nobel Prize, this time for chemistry, was awarded to a group of scientists who solved one of the grand challenges of chemistry, predicting and designing the structure of prote...
AI pioneers win Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize awards don’t have a category for computer science. But that didn’t stop the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from bestowing The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to two pioneers in the fiel...
OpenAI is worth more than Snap, Domino’s, Zillow, The NYTimes, Levi’s, and 7 other companies combined
Earlier this week, OpenAI, the tech startup behind gen-AI chatbot ChatGPT, closed its latest funding round. The deal — one of the largest funding rounds ever for a private company, counting investors ...
OpenAI's new product could undercut its own investors
In between raising $6.6 billion from investors and shedding senior executives as it attepts to morph into a for-profit company, this week OpenAI announced a new editor that could hurt some companies’ ...
One guy who has no problem with the OpenAI leadership exodus: Masayoshi Son
Last Thursday, I wondered whether or not a wave of resignations from key OpenAI executives over the last year, including three last week, would cause investors to hesitate as they considered writing n...
OpenAI’s leadership is in upheaval, but overall turnover looks shockingly low
OpenAI, the startup that has become synonymous with artificial intelligence itself, has seen a string of high-profile exits recently. Mira Murati, previously OpenAI’s chief technology officer, announc...
Is OpenAI worth anywhere near $150 billion without the employees who actually built it?
In 2023, four of OpenAI’s key players were Sam Altman (CEO), Mira Murati (CTO), Greg Brockman (President), and Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist and former board member). One year later, Altman is the l...
Non-profit OpenAI now wants to give profit a go
Hours after OpenAI co-founder Mira Murati announced her surprise resignation, Reuters reports that OpenAI is moving forward with its plan to restructure itself from a non-profit to a very-much-for-pro...