an indoor apple orchard planted in a spiral inside a data center. a wooden sign reads “OpenAI” –chaos 50 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8
“One thing that is clear when you talk to OpenAI & you could see in the Apple announcement today is that they are very comfortable with the idea that AI is able to figure stuff out. Lots of complex API connections & contingencies? Sure, the AI will (soon) be able to figure it out” / X
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash – Bloomberg
Why Is Apple (AAPL) Teaming Up With OpenAI? Both Companies Need Each Other – Bloomberg
“Apple and OpenAI partner up to directly integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPasOS 18, and macOS
“ChatGPT integration isn’t as deep as a I expected. Does this mean Apple trained their own language and image models for everything else they showcased?” / X
“very happy to be partnering with apple to integrate chatgpt into their devices later this year! think you will really like it.” / X
Brazil hires OpenAI to cut costs of court battles | Reuters
“Elon Musk officially withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI. If you missed it, the previous filing accused OpenAI of abandoning its mission of ‘developing AI for the benefit of humanity’. Still feels like a feud that is far from over…
“Elon Musk on Tuesday withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and two of the company’s co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in California state court.
Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI | Reuters
“OpenAI also added retired U.S. Army General and former NSA head Paul M. Nakasone to its Board of Directors today. Nakasone previous led the NSA from 2018 to 2023, and will help improve AI’s role in cybersecurity.
OpenAI adds former NSA chief Paul Nakasone to the board
“The former head of the NSA may be a great guy. But you don’t put the former head of the NSA on your board (as OpenAI just did) because he’s nice. You put him there to signal that you’re open to doing business with the IC and DoD.”
“1/ one of the biggest questions in AI today is: since GPT-4 was trained in fall 2022, we’ve collectively spent ~$100B on NVIDIA GPUs will the next generation of AI models’ capabilities live up to that aggregate investment level? NVIDIA qtrly datacenter rev, by @Thomas_Woodside
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI | Ars Technica
(must see) “sharing a peek of the 4o demo we did at @openai’s New York tech week reception! met so many cool ny founders and builders – huge props to the team for making this happen!
(must see) Real time multimodal audio dialog demo with translations
“GPT-4 creates persuasive political ads: “messages generated by GPT-4 were broadly persuasive, in some cases increasing support for an issue stance by up to 12 percentage points.” But micro targeting with user data had no effect. Why? 🤷 But I suspect better prompting would work.
OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Doubles to $3.4 Billion Since Late 2023 — The Information
OpenAI annualized revenue doubles to hit $3.4B: report | Seeking Alpha
OpenAI Doubles Annualized Revenue to $3.4 Billion, The Information Reports
OpenAI insider stock sales are raising concern among ex-employees
OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
“We are excited to welcome two leaders with the right experience, skills, and values to push the mission forward. @thefriley is joining as Chief Financial Officer, and @kevinweil as Chief Product Officer.
OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO) | OpenAI
“Mira Murati says the AI models that OpenAI have in their labs are not much more advanced than those which are publicly available
“1/ one of the biggest questions in AI today is: since GPT-4 was trained in fall 2022, we’ve collectively spent ~$100B on NVIDIA GPUs will the next generation of AI models’ capabilities live up to that aggregate investment level? NVIDIA qtrly datacenter rev, by @Thomas_Woodside
“Crazy fact that everyone deploying LLMs should know—GPT-4 is “smarter” at temperature=1 than temperature=0, even on deterministic tasks. I honestly didn’t believe this myself until I tried it, but shows up clearly on our evals. ht to @eugeneyan for the tip!
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AI News #37: Week Ending 06/14/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 7 Must-Read Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
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- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
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