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
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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
DAI#42 – Hot chips, bad memory, and AI ups and downs
Welcome to this week’s roundup of triple-distilled AI news. This week, battle lines were drawn in the chip wars in Taiwan. Microsoft may need to forget…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 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
Harnessing AI for good: opportunities and challenges
The AI for Good Global Summit 2024 took place on May 30-31 in Geneva, bringing together a group of over 2,500 participants representing some 145 countries. …
By Sam Jeans · 4 min read
DOJ won’t release Biden interview audio over deepfake concerns
The US Justice Department (DOJ) cited risks of AI disinformation and deepfakes as reasons why it won’t release audio of Joe Biden’s special counsel interview over…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Former OpenAI employees publish ‘Right to Warn’ open letter
A group of former and current OpenAI and Google employees are calling AI companies out on what they say is a dangerous culture of secrecy surrounding…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Windows AI Recall feature could be a security disaster
Microsoft is preparing to launch its Recall feature which utilizes Windows Copilot Runtime to help you find anything you’ve seen on your PC. Experts say it…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read