Mira Murati, the CTO of OpenAI who announced her departure last month, is raising venture capital funding for a new AI startup. according to Reuters. This startup will reportedly focus on creating AI products based on proprietary models and could raise over $100 million in this round. When he left, Murati wrote in X that […]
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Do current AI models really remember, think, plan and reason, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe yes, but according to Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, the answer is no. However, he believes we could get there in about a decade, applying a new method called the “world
While lawmakers in most countries are still discussing how to put up barriers to artificial intelligence, the European Union is at the forefront, having approved a risk-based framework to regulate AI applications earlier this year. The law came into force in August, although full details of the EU-wide AI governance regime are still being worked
Nvidia shares hit a record on Monday, closing at $138.07, as Wall Street anticipates earnings updates from Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon on their spending on AI infrastructure. The stock’s rise has been surprising: it’s up nearly 180% this year, after a rapid rise last year; It is also a reflection of Nvidia’s recognized strength
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AI pioneer Yann LeCun doesn’t believe artificial intelligence is really about to become intelligent. LeCun, professor at New York University, principal investigator of Meta and winner of the prestigious AM Turning Award – has been open about his skepticism before, e.g. tweeting that before we worry about controlling superintelligent AI, “we need to have the
China-based chipmaker MediaTek is being explicit about what the future of our phones will entail. In its best Elmo impression, MediaTek asks: “Can you say the word “agent”? What exactly does that mean? For its recently announced 3nm flagship chip, the Dimensity 9400, the focus is now on how Elmo assistants AI can work in
He Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Geoff Hinton and John Hopfield They jointly share the prestigious award for their work on artificial neural networks that began in the late 1970s and early 1980s. More specifically, Hinton and Hopfield received the award for “Fundamental discoveries and inventions enabling
A federal judge blocked one of California’s new AI laws on Wednesday, less than two weeks after it was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Shortly after signing AB 2839, Newsom suggested it could be used to force Elon Musk to take down an AI deepfake of Vice President Kamala Harris that she had reposted (which
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Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced which will join Anthropic. In a series of posts on When contacted for comment, an Anthropic spokesperson pointed to Kingma’s posts. I will be working (mostly) from the Netherlands, but I will visit the San Francisco Bay Area as often as I can! -Durk
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Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans have a discreet camera on the front, to take photos not only when you ask them to, but also when their AI features trigger them with certain keywords like “look.” That means the smart glasses collect a ton of photos, both taken deliberately and otherwise. But the company will not commit to
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