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OpenAI Launches AI Text-to-Video Generator Sora

OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and Dall-E, has joined the text-to-video AI content generation race by launching Sora, which has the ability to generate videos up to a minute long based on the user’s prompt.  The com Read more…

Sam Altman Seeks $7 Trillion to Supercharge Chip Production 

OpenAI Chief Sam Altman is reportedly seeking to raise trillions of dollars to address the massive global shortage in semiconductor chips. The ongoing ship shortage is partly prompted by the rapidly growing demand for Ge Read more…

New AI Patent Study Shows IBM Leads Google and Microsoft in GenAI Race

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence over the last year has sent tech companies scrambling to find new ways to develop and deploy AI technology in their products and processes. Companies that have developed or ar Read more…

Microsoft’s New Copilot Pro Offers AI in Office Apps and Priority Access

Microsoft has launched a paid subscription for Copilot - the tech giant’s umbrella brand for its GenAI technologies. Users can now access a wide range of new features by paying an extra $20 monthly. This includes acces Read more…

Anthropic in Talks with Menlo Ventures to Raise $750M

Another influx of cash might be on the horizon for Anthropic. The OpenAI competitor is hoping to raise $750 million in a new round of funding, according to Bloomberg and originally reported by The Information. The AI Read more…

Chat With Your Data: Mixpanel Integrates Generative AI to Simplify Analytics

Mixpanel, a platform for event analytics, announced it has integrated generative AI capabilities into its services to allow companies to “chat with their data.” Using a new feature called Spark, Mixpanel users can Read more…

AI Researchers Issue Warning: Treat AI Risks as Global Priority

Does artificial intelligence represent an existential threat to humanity along the lines of nuclear war and pandemics? A new statement signed by AI scientists and other notable figures says it should be treated as such. Read more…

Sam Altman Debunks GPT-5 Rumors, Shifts Focus to Improving Existing Models

Those anticipating an eventual GPT-5 release may have a long time to wait. The current trend of developing ever-larger AI models like GPT-4 may soon come to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I think we’ Read more…

GPT-4 Has Arrived: Here’s What to Know

It’s finally here … OpenAI has released GPT-4, the next-gen large language model powering ChatGPT. The highly anticipated release comes after months of speculation. Currently, GPT-4 is available to try via ChatGPT+, Read more…

Multi-modal GPT-4 Rumored To Be Released This Week

Rumors are swirling around the anticipated release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 this week. German publication Heise reported that Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun spilled the tea at an AI kickoff event last week. “We will Read more…

Companions, Not Replacements: Chatbots Will Not Succeed Search Engines Just Yet

The internet has been abuzz with news about the AI-powered search engine wars between Google and Microsoft. Microsoft has been collaborating with OpenAI to integrate an upgraded version of ChatGPT within its Bing search Read more…

AnyScale Bolsters Ray, the Super-Scalable Framework Used to Train ChatGPT

ChatGPT developer OpenAI is using Ray, an open-source unified compute framework, to ease the infrastructure costs and complexity of training its large language models. Anyscale, the company behind Ray, has made enhanceme Read more…

Chatbot Search Wars Intensify with Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Unveiling of AI-powered Bing

Google has officially thrown its hat into the chatbot ring with the unveiling of Bard, its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence, an Read more…

Microsoft Solidifies Multi-year, Multi-billion Investment in OpenAI

Microsoft announced it has entered a third phase of its long-term partnership with OpenAI, creators of the famed DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT generative AI technologies. The company first partnered with OpenAI in 2019 and aga Read more…

OpenAI Outsourced Data Labeling to Kenyan Workers Earning Less than $2 Per Hour: TIME Report

TIME has released an exclusive report showing that OpenAI outsourced data labeling work to Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour in order to build its content filter for ChatGPT. According to author Billy Perri Read more…

Seek AI Finds $7.5M in Seed to Grow Its Generative AI Platform

Seek AI announced it has raised $7.5 million in pre-seed and seed funding. The company says it will use the new capital to accelerate product development and support its mission of making data accessible to anyone in an Read more…

OpenAI’s New GPT-3.5 Chatbot Can Rhyme like Snoop Dogg

While the world waits for GPT-4, the next version of the generative transformer model GPT-3, OpenAI has released GPT-3.5 in the form of a new AI chatbot, ChatGPT, that has already seen over a million users less than a we Read more…

Stable Diffusion Creator Stability AI Raises $101M

Stability AI, parent company of digital art tool Stable Diffusion, has announced a $101 million seed funding round. The funding round was led by Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. Blo Read more…

OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 Is Surreal

About 15 months ago, OpenAI—famed for its eerily effective GPT-3 large language model—introduced a child system to that language model: the cleverly named “DALL·E,” a 12-billion parameter neural network that gen Read more…

AI Experts Discuss Implications of GPT-3

Last July, GPT-3 took the internet by storm. The massive 175 billion-parameter autoregressive language model, developed by OpenAI, showed a startling ability to translate languages, answer questions, and – perhaps most Read more…

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