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OpenAI researchers reportedly warned internally about breakthrough AI discovery “Q-Star”

Summary In a letter to the company’s board of directors, OpenAI researchers are said to have warned of an AI discovery that could pose a threat to humanity. This was reported by Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The letter is also linked to Altman’s firing, but is not the only reason, according …

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Nvidia’s record-breaking Q3 revenue fueled by generative AI hardware sales surge

Nvidia reported record Q3 revenues of $18.12 billion, attributing the growth primarily to sales of generative AI hardware. The company’s market capitalization now stands at $1.22 trillion. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized that AI startups, consumer Internet companies, and cloud service providers were the primary drivers of this growth. The company’s data center division, which …

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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return to OpenAI after a one-day Microsoft detour

Summary After an enormous waste of capital, time and trust, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return to OpenAI. The board is renewed. After being fired last Friday and presumably leaving for Microsoft, Sam Altman has returned to OpenAI as CEO. He is followed by Greg Brockman, whose new role is still unclear. The incident will …

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Stable Video Diffusion is an open-source AI video model based on Stable Diffusion

Summary Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion, a generative video model that outperforms commercial competitors RunwayML and Pika Labs in user preference studies, according to the company’s own benchmark. Stable Video Diffusion is released in the form of two image-to-video models, each capable of generating 14 and 25 images with customizable frame rates ranging from …

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Anthropic releases its latest LLM Claude 2.1 as OpenAI self-destructs

Summary In the midst of OpenAI’s existential crisis, competitor Anthropic unveils its new language model and chatbot, Claude 2.1. It has a context window twice the size of its predecessor and is said to make fewer mistakes. With a 200K context window, Anthropic’s Claude 2.1 surpasses the large 100K context window of its predecessor, which …

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Biotech company Genentech partners with Nvidia for generative AI

Newsletter Biotechnology company Genentech is partnering with Nvidia to accelerate the discovery and development of new medicines using generative AI. The collaboration will optimize Genentech’s proprietary algorithms on Nvidia’s DGX Cloud. Genentech also plans to use Nvidia’s BioNeMo, a platform that simplifies and scales generative AI applications for computational drug discovery. The initial focus will …

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Baidu’s Chinese ChatGPT “Ernie Bot” reaches 70 million users in three months

Summary With Ernie Bot, the Chinese Internet company Baidu has probably the strongest Chinese ChatGPT competitor on the market. Now the company announced its first numbers. China’s leading internet search company Baidu has beaten financial expectations in the last quarter, thanks in part to generative AI. The company’s AI chatbot, Ernie Bot, China’s answer to …

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Amazon aims to train two million people in AI for free by 2025

Summary Amazon announced AI Ready, an initiative to provide free AI training to two million people worldwide by 2025. The program includes three new projects: eight free courses on AI and generative AI, an AWS Generative AI Fellowship for more than 50,000 students, and a collaboration with Code.org to introduce students to generative AI. Free …

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OpenAI crumbles in just three days, leaving 650 employees wondering what went wrong

Summary It only took three days for OpenAI to go from the hottest AI company in the world to total collapse. About 650 of OpenAI’s 770 employees are currently facing layoffs, writes OpenAI employee Lilian Weng on Twitter.com. In an open letter, the employees vent their frustration at the OpenAI board, which has still not …

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