What Microsoft Executives Really Thought About OpenAI in 2018
…The email chain kicked off on August 11, 2017, with Nadella reaching out to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to congratulate the lab on winning a video game competition using AI to mimic…
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Meta Is Developing 4 New Chips to Power Its AI and Recommendation Systems
…The other three chips are designed to support inference, the process of running trained AI models to produce outputs like text or images. The MTIA 400, which Meta claims delivers performance “competitive…
Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill
…As AI tools become increasingly popular, and the companies behind them race toward massive IPOs, polls show that American voters are looking for more AI regulation. As a result, safety advocates and…
The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation
…He told reporters at the time that it could stifle competition domestically and reduce the advantage the US currently maintains over China in the AI race. The most contentious section of the…
‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
…Anthropic itself noted this double edged sword in its launch of Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5. “A great deal of advanced usage of AI models is dual use: the same queries…
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
…Anthropic reversed the policy after it received fierce backlash from the AI research community. Anthropic has already taken steps to limit competitors from using Claude to build closed- and open-source AI…
Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet
…intense competition from Google and Anthropic. OpenAI's bet is that creating one personalized assistant for everything will make it the unequivocal leader in consumer, enterprise, and the overall AI race once…
An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI
…Meanwhile, AI giants, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are expanding into health care, intensifying competition for the raft of startups in the space. Hemispheric has raised early-stage funding from American and Israeli…
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
…Google’s unchecked progress on AI development had sparked concerns for both OpenAI cofounders, and they wanted to create a competing lab with a greater focus on safety. “My perspective is [OpenAI…
I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too
…countermeasures, including novel uses of AI, should tip the balance back toward defense over time. Yun said that even if international cooperation is complicated by competition, it should remain a priority. “If…