Elon Musk’s $6 billion xAI fundraise shows he’s serious about building an AI contender

aol.com Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. The big news over the weekend was that Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a venture capital round that values the…

French Startup Minstral AI Gains Traction In US, Targets OpenAI's Market

benzinga.com Mistral AI, a Paris-based startup, launched in early 2023 aiming to compete with OpenAI in the European market by developing generative artificial intelligence tools, is…

The transformative potential of AGI

ted.com As the cofounder of Google DeepMind, Shane Legg is driving one of the greatest transformations in history: the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). He…

Big Tech’s Fascination with Large Language Models May Be Overkill

thedailyupside.com AI models are like babies: constant growth spurts make them fussier and needier. As the AI race continues to heat up, frontrunners like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are…

Elon Musk’s xAI Secures $6 Billion To Compete With ChatGPT

cryptonews.com Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, successfully raised $6 billion in a Series B funding round on May 26. The latest Series B round included participation from Vy Capital,…

Microsoft Patent Could Broaden Large Language Models’ Horizons

thedailyupside.com Microsoft wants its AI models to pick up on subtleties. The company is seeking to patent a system for “large language model utterance augmentation.” This aims to give a…

How AI is unlocking the secrets of nature and the universe

ted.com Can AI help us answer life's biggest questions? In this visionary conversation, Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis delves into the history and incredible…

Silicon Valley doesn't seem to be buying Sam Altman's NDA pleas

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Musk to build AI supercomputer to rival OpenAI, Google, Microsoft

interestingengineering.com Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI, is reportedly embarking on an ambitious endeavor to construct one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, aiming…

YouTube is a major entertainment force. Here's the platform's history, plus how to create a channel and upload videos

businessinsider.com YouTube was acquired by Google, and has since become a major revenue-generator for Alphabet, thanks to YouTube Premium. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images YouTube is a…

Elon Warns AI Will "Do Everything Better Than You", Make Employment Obsolete

zerohedge.com Elon Warns AI Will "Do Everything Better Than You", Make Employment Obsolete Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, Elon Musk recently doubled-down on his…

AI pierces the secret life of plants

axios.com The latest AI tools and computing advances are providing a more detailed view of plants and their interactions with the world that could help breeders develop more resilient…

Google criticized as AI Overview makes obvious errors, saying President Obama is Muslim and that it's safe to leave dogs in hot cars

cnbc.com It's been less than two weeks since Google debuted "AI Overviews" in Google Search, and public criticism has mounted after queries have returned nonsensical or inaccurate…

Nvidia CEO Huang expects AI-generated videos to drive more demand for its chips

aol.com For chip designer Nvidia, the generative artificial intelligence boom is the gift that keeps on giving. After riding a demand surge sparked by Big Tech's rush to roll out…

Big Tech goes on AI charm offensive in Europe as regulators circle

cnbc.com PARIS, France — U.S. technology giants this week have talked up the benefits of artificial intelligence for humanity, turning on the charm at one of Europe's largest…

AI Startup H Raises $220 Million for ‘Full AGI’

pymnts.com French startup “H” has raised $220 million for its goal of building artificial general intelligence. The company — led by a group of Google DeepMind veterans — had been…

Microsoft extends reach of Copilot AI helpers

theregister.com At Microsoft, "it's Copilots all the way down for us." So said Frank Shaw, chief communication officer at Microsoft, in a pre-recorded interview with Mustafa Suleyman, EVP &…

OpenAI loses its voice

platformer.news OpenAI hasn't been the same company since Sam Altman returned as its CEO. It’s a thought that has occurred to me repeatedly over the past week as the company has found…

The Next Wave of AI Gains is Starting

investorplace.com Eye-popping AI salaries … enormous AI growth is coming … where we are in the adoption curve … where the next “profit wave” will crash … an AI event with Eric Fry tomorrow…

Sundar Pichai says Google is 'moving fast' with AI

aol.com None Google boss Sundar Pichai says the company is moving boldly but cautiously with its AI efforts. • None In an interview with a YouTuber, Pichai discussed the balance of…

More OpenAI chaos puts Sam Altman on the back foot

aol.com None Sam Altman is in the hot seat after a former OpenAI executive raised concerns about AI safety. • None The CEO admitted OpenAI has "a lot more to do" to address red…

Paris vies for Europe's AI crown as key conference beckons

aol.com France will this week host tech executives and political figures including former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry, EU industrial chief Thierry Breton and ex-Google boss…

3 Artificial Intelligence Stocks You'll Be Glad You Bought 5 Years From Now

finance.yahoo.com Sentiments about stocks can change sharply, especially over a five-year period. This is true of both the artificial intelligence (AI) industry and AI-driven stocks. As the…

This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety

techcrunch.com Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine…

Google DeepMind releases its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models

semafor.com Preparing for a time when artificial intelligence is so powerful that it can pose a serious, immediate threat to people, Google DeepMind on Friday released a framework for…

Google DeepMind CEO: ‘This Is the Next $100 Billion AI Business’

investorplace.com The time to invest in this emerging, little-known corner of the AI boom is now These days, AI stocks are all the rage – and with good reason. We believe that as its…

OpenAI Exec Who Quit Says Safety 'Took a Backseat to Shiny Products'

decrypt.co Jan Leike, the former head of OpenAI’s alignment and "superalignment" initiatives, took to Twitter (aka X) on Friday to explain his reasoning for leaving the AI developer on…

Google Reintroduces Itself With Help From This Jay-Z Track

billboard.com Yesterday, Google held its annual I/O conference keynote and, as expected, introduced a bevy of AI tools and products that it believes will completely transform the company…

An AI agent may soon be at your beck and call, but it might cost you a bit of your privacy

aol.com None This post originally appeared in the Insider Today newsletter. • None You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. Halfway to the weekend! What do you…

OpenAI’s chief scientist departs months after failed Altman ouster

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from Reuters, The Information, The Atlantic, and The New York Times The News OpenAI’s chief scientist and co-founder Ilya Sutskever has…

Google thinks AI can Google better than you can

theregister.com In the future, "Google will do the Googling for you" – or so suggests Liz Reid, VP of search. On Tuesday at Google I/O, the search ad firm's annual developer conference,…

It was their job to make sure humans are safe from OpenAI's superintelligence. They just quit

aol.com None Machine learning researcher Jan Leike and scientist Ilya Sutskever just resigned from OpenAI. • None Their team's job, essentially, was to make sure humans are safe…

The top AI-powered features revealed at Google I/O 2024

siliconrepublic.com Gemini continues to evolve and expand across Google’s ecosystem, more AI features are coming to Search and users will soon be able to create their own customised AI models.…

Google supercharges AI search in competition with OpenAI, allows users to chat about anything from smartphone camera

scmp.com Among Google’s latest salvoes was an addition to its family of Gemini 1.5 AI models known as Flash that is faster and cheaper to run; a prototype called Project Astra, which…