… To be clear, inference can’t happen without training; a model must learn patterns in a set of data before it can effectively extrapolate from this training data. Many types of hardware can perform inference, ranging from smartphone processors to beefy GPUs to custom-designed AI accelerators. …
… On the back of that traction, Human Archive said Tuesday it has raised $8.2 million in funding from Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, Y Combinator, and angels from OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, Mercor, AfterQuery, BAIR, SAIL, Brad Boa, and Meta. …
… Helen Toner, director of CSET and a former board member at OpenAI, told TechCrunch that simply using AI tools to do AI research isn’t enough to qualify as RSI. “They’re just using AI for as much as they can,” Toner tells TechCrunch. “And I think that is different from the classic definition of RSI,… …
… Runway co-founder and co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis said training models directly on observational data from the world is the next frontier of AI. …
… It’s tempting to see the arrangement as a shot at OpenAI amid the ongoing lawsuit. But Musk’s explanation on X was that xAI had already moved training to a newer data center, Colossus 2 , and xAI simply didn’t need them both. …
… All chats are private because DuckDuckGo strips the user’s IP address before requests reach model providers, deletes conversations within 30 days, and prevents chats from being used for training. “Not only do we respect user choice, but also user privacy,” Weinberg said. “Everything you do in DuckD… …
… Topics AI , In Brief , interaction models , Mira Murati , Thinking Machines Lab Related AI Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration, at IO 2026 AI OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team AI Anthropic has acquired the dev tools sta…
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… From that point on, the model can build a new environment on top of that. “We have long thought about how we can build out the best and richest model of the world on top of Street View data,” Herbert said. “It’s definitely been an idea of ours to use Maps Data in new ways and for new kinds of AI re… …
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