a realistic baroque oil painting in an ornate gilded frame, depicting the woven hexagon style OpenAI logo, a small, elegant nameplate at the bottom of the fame is engraved with the title: “OpenAI” –chaos 20 –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize t9u6ckr –v 6.1
“In 2019, OpenAI announced GPT-2 with this post:
Kara Swisher and OpenAI’s Mira Murati Interview – Hopkins Bloomberg Center Discovery Series – YouTube
“Microsoft just withdrew its role on OpenAI’s Board, while Apple also reportedly scrapped plans These drop-offs come right on the heels of the EU/US investigations around big co antitrust violations
“Microsoft has given up its board observer seat at OpenAI. It cited OpenAI’s new partnerships, innovation and growing customer base since Altman’s return to the startup for giving up its observer seat
Microsoft Gives Up Observer Seat in OpenAI Board, Apple Also Unlikely to Join – Bloomberg
Microsoft, Apple give up observer seats on OpenAI’s board amid regulatory scrutiny – SiliconANGLE
OpenAI board shake-up: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny | Ars Technica
Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ | Reuters
“OpenAI is blocking API access to China starting today. Interestingly Microsoft is not following suit with Azure. MS said ‘OpenAI, being an independent company, makes its own decisions’. We are about to see a big release from OAI, this is an indication that the hour approaches.” / X
“OpenAI’s sudden China block: No more tools/services for Chinese users from July 9th 🚫🇨🇳 Reason? “OpenAI has not elaborated about the reason for its sudden decision.” Why it matters. “One consequence of OpenAI’s decision may be that it accelerates the development of Chinese AI” / X
Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China | China | The Guardian
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – The New York Times
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too – The New York Times
OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in lab
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory announce research partnership | OpenAI
“OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory have formed a partnership to study model bioscience capabilities. Los Alamos has also established AIRTAG the AI Risks and Threat Assessments Group. GPT-4o, with Voice Mode enabled, will be used in lab to assist bioresearch.
“Today Sam Altman and I published a piece in TIME sharing our vision for how AI-driven personalized behavior change can transform healthcare and announcing the launch of Thrive AI Health, a new company funded by the OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive Global, which will be devoted to
OpenAI Startup Fund & Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global Create New Company, Thrive AI Health, To Launch Hyper-Personalized AI Health Coach
“The OpenAI Startup Fund and Thrive just announced a new venture developing a hyper-personalized AI-powered health coach The coach will be trained in scientific research, biometric data, and individual preferences to offer tailored recommendations
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text – The Verge
“OpenAI reportedly internally introduced a new five-tier system to track its progress toward AGI. The classification system ranges from Level 1 (current conversational AI) to Level 5 (AI capable of running entire organizations).
OpenAI on the steps for AI to reach human intelligence
OpenAI Sets Levels to Track Progress Toward Superintelligent AI – Bloomberg
OpenAI Sets Levels to Track Progress Toward Superintelligent AI – Bloomberg
“OpenAI has come up w/ a framework of 5 levels to track progress twd AGI, and think they’re currently near level 2 (“Reasoners”) At recent all-hands, leadership also did a research demo of GPT4 w/ improved reasoning by @rachelmetz w/ an assist from me
OpenAI is reportedly working on more advanced AI models capable of reasoning and ‘deep research’
“Apple is getting a (non-voting) board observer seat at OpenAI later this year through its Apple Intelligence partnership. Phil Schiller will take the position, who previously was Head of Marketing at Apple and also oversaw the App Store
“Per Bloomberg, OpenAI at an employee meeting on Tuesday “gave a demonstration of a research project involving its GPT-4 AI model that OpenAI thinks shows some new skills that rise to human-like reasoning,” and believes it’s on the cusp of reaching level 2 “Reasoners” of a 5 level
OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say – The Washington Post
OpenAI Revenue Report — FUTURESEARCH
“✅OpenAI’s Assistant API is a great example of agentic infrastructure: – Built in persistence – Built in background runs – Easily configurable ❌BUT it doesn’t give you full control over the cognitive architecture of your application. Little blog:
Synchron unveils OpenAI-powered BCI chat feature
“Synchron CEO Tom Oxley says their brain-computer interface uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o to generate prompts from multimodal inputs that users can choose from to express their intentions
“Introducing Whisper Timestamped: Multilingual speech recognition with word-level timestamps, running 100% locally in your browser thanks to 🤗 Transformers.js! This unlocks a world of possibilities for in-browser video editing! 🤯 What will you build? 😍 Demo (+ source code) 👇
“Game-changer alert: Navigate your video by clicking transcribed words with Whisper Timestamped! 🚀 Key features: – Multilingual transcription (35+ languages) – Click any word to jump to that moment in the video – Works with audio & video files – 100% browser-based for total
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AI News #41: Week Ending 07/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- 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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