… Musk also said that after he recruited Ilya Sutskever, then a research scientist at Google, to OpenAI that “Larry Page refused to speak to me ever again.” What did Musk do at OpenAI? “I came up with the idea, the name, recruited the key people, taught them everything I know, provided all the initia… …
… Not sure that alone is worth what they’re asking.” A year later, Scott admitted in an email to Nadella and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that he had been “highly dismissive” of AI efforts at OpenAI and Google DeepMind when the companies were competing to see who “could achieve the most impressive … …
… 749 In a January 2018 email exchange between Musk, Altman, Brockman, and Sutskever, with Zilis CC’ed, Musk writes of his concerns about Google Deepmind’s advancement in AI. He writes, “OpenAl is on a path of certain failure relative to Google. …
… But Google’s Townsend defended the company’s record thus far. “To the best of our ability, we are accounting for the offsite water footprint,” Townsend said, “and I think we’ve made significant progress in reducing or eliminating the water footprint of that supply chain through our waterless renewa… …
… A report by The Information this week said Sergey Brin has directed Google’s “strike team” to help its agentic AI tools catch up, while Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” at OpenAI last year before shutting down Sora to focus on the ChatGPT superapp and its own Codex tool. …
… Though companies like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic view AI agents as the future, the technology isn’t quite living up to the hype of serving as full-fledged personal assistants capable of completing an array of tasks without human intervention. …
This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent — Spark — from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. …
… The Google head disagreed with Musk and his cofounders “extolling the virtues of open sourcing AI.” Hassabis wrote that it was “actually very dangerous,” adding, “I presume you realise that this is not some sort of panacea that will somehow magically solve the AI problem?” A handful of months later… …
… At last week’s Android Show, Google announced an upcoming feature to create your own widgets with a prompt — Google’s examples include widgets that highlight certain weather metrics or suggest new recipes to try. …
… Why add on this totally illusory enterprise $22.7 trillion from AI when you’re up against OpenAI, Anthropic and Google? And Elon has admitted very publicly that xAI was not built correctly and needs to be totally rebuilt. …