OpenAI has achieved a groundbreaking advancement in AI model development efficiency, with CEO Sam Altman revealing that building models like GPT-4 from scratch now requires only 5 to 10 people, compared to hundreds previously, signaling rapid progress in generative AI capabilities.
China's tech giants are fueling an AI boom by releasing open-source models, but startups face pressure from investors prioritizing practical applications over foundational research, and US chip restrictions pose challenges that drive innovation to stay competitive.
Mira Murati, ex-CTO of OpenAI, aims to raise an unprecedented $2 billion seed round for her ambitious AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, focused on customizable, multimodal, and safe AI systems amidst soaring AI funding.
OpenAI plans to verify organizations before granting access to advanced AI models, prioritizing safety by mitigating potential misuse, intellectual property theft, and unintended consequences while enabling responsible development.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever's AI startup Safe Superintelligence secures $2 billion at a staggering $32 billion valuation, with the funding round led by Greenoaks, in a bid to create a 'safe superintelligence' product, adding to the $1 billion previously raised.
BrowseComp, a novel AI benchmark, evaluates web browsing skills by posing 1,266 complex queries requiring synthesis of information across multiple websites, with a deep research model achieving 51.5% accuracy, surpassing other models' performance on this challenging task.
In a groundbreaking collaboration, Ai2 and Google Cloud have jointly invested $20 million to establish the Cancer AI Alliance, leveraging AI's potential to accelerate cancer research through shared models and secure data analytics powered by Google's cloud infrastructure.
Ex-Google AI Chief Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), backed by $1 billion, is tapping Google Cloud's powerful TPU chips in its quest to develop safe, superintelligent AI systems, marking another AI computing deal between Google and a former employee's startup.
Meta's new AI model Maverick tops the LM Arena benchmark, but the optimized version tested raises transparency concerns as it differs from the publicly available model, making real-world performance predictions challenging due to undisclosed customizations.
A startling discovery reveals that the majority of galaxies spin in the same clockwise direction, defying cosmological expectations and potentially signaling the need to revise our understanding of the universe's expansion or consider the mind-bending notion that our cosmos resides within a rotating black hole.