Ilya Sutskever, one of the co-founders of ChatGPT makers OpenAI, announced the launch of a rival artificial intelligence company Wednesday, June 19.
The new company is known as Safe Superintelligence Inc (SSI). The announcement comes just weeks after the Israeli-Canadian computer scientist quit the Sam Altman-led company.
Apple will integrate ChatGPT, the company said on Monday, June 10, while announcing a new suite of AI features that will customise personal experiences for millions of its users with the arrival of iOS 18 and other software updates later this year. This marks the Cupertino-based company’s jump into the AI space.
Termed ‘Apple Intelligence’, the AI features will manage notifications, automatically write things or summarize text in mail and other apps, the company said. Apple, currently the third most valued company in the world, behind Microsoft and Nvidia, said the AI features will be stored in “Private Cloud Compute” in a safe and secure way.
I have been thinking about the OpenAI and Google I/O announcements — and how they represent two polar opposite strategies, and thus diametrically opposed perceptions of two entities that are in a small, elite club that is creating a direction for a set of technologies known as “artificial intelligence.”
OpenAI’s just unveiled flagship model GPT 4o moves the world of artificial intelligence (AI) closer to the eventual possibility of it becoming conscious and, in some new form, sentient.
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella met the president of Indonesia on Apr.30, pledging a US $1.7 billion investment in artificial intelligence and cloud computing to help develop the country’s AI infrastructure.
Sam Altman-run OpenAI has hired Pragya Misra as its first employee in India. Sources confirmed to IANS on Friday that Misra has been appointed to lead public policy affairs and partnerships in the country.
A few days ago, Vinod Khosla got into a war of words with Marc Andreessen. Or was it Elon? It was an argument over OpenAI and “open” AI. It might have felt like a bunch of capitalist leviathans butting their big heads, but for me, this was classic Vinod.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla got engaged in a public spat on X as the billionaire sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over an alleged breach of original contractual agreements around AI.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they breached their original contractual agreements around AI.
In a setback for Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has refused to allow the Sam Altman-run company to register the word GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) as a trademark.
Google has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance, and engineering teams of the Google Assistant and across other parts of the company’s knowledge and information product teams. The California-based company has said that the retrenchments are part of cost-cutting measures.
Here’s wishing everyone a very Happy New Year. We hope that 2024 brings all of you joy, peace, good health and all your desires.
The year began with almost everyone predicting a recession. The Federal Reserve kept raising interest rates at regular intervals. Nobody thought that 2023 would be a blockbuster year for stocks. The S&P 500 finished the year up 24% and the DJIA advanced 14% to top 37000 for the first time. In fact, the final days of 2023 saw seven record closes for the index. The Nasdaq composite soared 43%, its best year in over two decades – thanks to the mania surrounding Artificial Intelligence (more on this later).
Venktesh Shukla writes: For my 2023 retrospective on startups, I sought perspectives from various venture capitalists, and their insights offer a vivid snapshot of the year:
“Mania in Generative AI and back to reality for the rest.”
“A year of very few exits, failed IPOs, and craze for Gen AI.”
“Funding freeze, shift in focus from growth at all costs to proven business models that lead to profitability. Down rounds and layoffs while some startups closing doors.”
For a company at the vanguard of artificial intelligence (AI), the bizarre goings-on on at OpenAI do not suggest very intelligent leadership.
The company’s future is suddenly under a cumulonimbus after 700 of its 770 employees threatened to join Microsoft en masse unless its ousted CEO Sam Altman is reinstated. Altman, in the meantime has been appointed, as CEO of a new Microsoft research lab apparently created specially for him and other OpenAI employees in open revolt.
Even for a region accustomed to tremors, the news of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, being unceremoniously ousted from the company was like an event off the Richter scale. His exit was announced in a terse press release, along with Greg Brockman’s demotion from the chairman of the board. This sent shockwaves across Silicon Valley and the entire technology ecosystem. The board named CTO Mira Murati as the interim chief executive.
ChatGPT developer OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has invested in an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, founded by two Indian-origin teenagers Aryan Sharma and Ayush Pathak in the Silicon valley in the US. The startup Induced AI, founded this year, has raised $2.3 million in its seed-funding round led by Altman and VC firm Peak XV, along with “an incredible set of investors”.
By Mayank Chhaya- It is tempting to view the landmark antitrust trial against Alphabet, Google’s parent company, as a slugfest between Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella. Interestingly, emblematic of how higher Indian American professionals punch above their demographic weight is the fact that it is District Judge Amit Mehta, who will decide the case in […]
McKinsey and Company, in a June 2023 report, says that Generative AI is posed to unleash the next wave of productivity and estimates that generative AI could add the equivalent of $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion annually across the 63 use cases. Moreover, industry pundits pretty much agree that Generative AI will impact each and every vertical significantly. CXOs now know that Generative AI not only increases productivity and operational efficiency but is necessary for sustained competitive advantage. They have initiated projects with utmost urgency, allocated significant budgets and tasked talented people to make Generative AI a part of the company ethos. This is possibly the biggest, fastest and most widely applicable tectonic shift the world has seen.
Several Indians and Indian-origin techies have made it to Time magazine’s inaugural ‘TIME100 AI List’, highlighting the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI).
An Indian firm is among the winners of the 2023 Microsoft AI Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing India’s tech ecosystem is indeed vast, particularly among the youth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. The Prime Minister reacted after meeting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in the national capital.
In a remarkable turn of events, hundreds of technology experts, academics and others have warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses extinction level threat to human society on par with pandemics and nuclear war.
Geoffrey Hinton, who has often been called the ‘Godfather of AI, confirmed on Monday that he left his role at Google last week to speak out about the “dangers” of the technology he helped develop.
Spike Narayan asks, Is AI disrupting the technology job industry? Just scanning the newsfeeds every day, one would be led to believe that it is true. When we begin to peel the onion, two facts are obvious. One, many tech companies are trimming their workforce; and two, the tech companies that are downsizing are in the AI business for sure. The question before us then is, “Is there a causal relationship between these two facts?”
After slamming OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk is now working on “TruthGPT,” a ChatGPT alternative that will act as a “maximum truth-seeking AI.”
In an interview with Fox News, Musk said that an alternative approach to AI creation is needed to “avoid the destruction of humanity”.
