Meta backs down on using EU social media to train its AI
Meta canceled its launch of Meta AI in Europe in response to objections to its plan to train its models on users’ social media data. Earlier…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
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OpenAI appoints former NSA head Paul Nakasone to its board
OpenAI has appointed former NSA head and retired General Paul Nakasone to its board of directors. Nakasone’s views on intelligence gathering have raised concerns of civil…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Microsoft delays Recall as it prioritizes security over AI
When Microsoft launches its new Copilot Plus PCs next week they won’t have the much touted and then criticized Recall functionality built-in. The idea behind Recall…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Elon Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI, faces insider trading allegations
Elon Musk has dismissed his breach of contract lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. The lawsuit, filed in February 2023, accused OpenAI of abandoning its…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
Meta to train its AI using social media posts from Europe
Meta plans to use social media content posted by European users of its platforms to train its Llama AI models. The company’s suite of generative AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Mistral AI secures $640M in series B funding, challenging big players
Mistral AI, a French AI startup, has taken the AI world by storm, raising an impressive €600 million ($640 million) in series B funding at a…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Apple products get AI boost with OpenAI partnership
Apple used its WWDC 2024 developers conference to announce that a wide range of AI-powered features will be coming to its devices later this year. After…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
NATURAL PLAN: Benchmarking LLMs on natural language planning
Google DeepMind researchers developed NATURAL PLAN, a benchmark for evaluating the capability of LLMs to plan real-world tasks based on natural language prompts. The next evolution…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Chinese text-to-video generator Kling released to rival Sora
Chinese tech company Kuaishou Technology released a text-to-video (T2V) generator called Kling that could rival OpenAI’s Sora. In February, OpenAI wowed us with Sora demo videos…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
NVIDIA Blackwell by the numbers – the potential impact of NVIDIA new AI superchip
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently described in detail the company’s latest AI accelerator chip, named Blackwell, at the company’s Computex 2024 keynote. With Blackwell, NVIDIA is…
By Sam Jeans · 5 min read