The AI oneupmanship continued this week with simultaneous announcements of new features and improved AI models from Google and OpenAI. At its Made By Google event on Tuesday, Google unveiled its new Pixel mobile…
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NATO has released a revised AI strategy to promote the responsible use of AI in defense applications and to combat threats from AI-enabled adversaries. NATO’s updated…
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Chinese AI developer, SenseTime, unveiled its upgraded multimodal SenseNova 5.5 model and claims it represents the state-of-the-art. The upgraded model comes just a few months after…
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Big Tech computing companies formed a consortium to define a new open standard for interconnecting AI accelerators. NVIDIA was not invited to be part of the…
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that it performed the first-ever in-air test of an AI-piloted fighter jet in combat simulation against a human-piloted…
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Stanford University released its AI Index Report 2024 which noted that AI’s rapid advancement makes benchmark comparisons with humans increasingly less relevant. The annual report provides…
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Billionaire CEO and cofounder of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, plans to raise $100b for an AI chip manufacturing project to compete with NVIDIA. Son named the new…
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Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is joining the race for Artificial General Intelligence and that the company plans to make it open-source once it is achieved.…
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When Google announced the release of its Gemini models there was a lot of excitement as the company said these were on par with offerings from…
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An AI company called VERSES made a bold statement with a billboard it posted outside OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco. The billboard read, “Got AGI? Would…
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