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Nvidia unveils Blackwell B200, the “world’s most powerful chip” designed for AI

Enlarge / The GB200 “superchip” covered with a fanciful blue explosion. Nvidia / Benj Edwards reader comments 89 On Monday, Nvidia unveiled the Blackwell B200 tensor core chip—the company’s most powerful single-chip GPU, with 208 billion transistors—which Nvidia claims can reduce AI inference operating costs (such as running ChatGPT) and energy consumption by up to… Read More »

Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features using Gemini—report

Benj Edwards reader comments 72 On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google’s Gemini model to power AI features like Siri in a future iPhone software update coming later in 2024, according to people familiar with the situation. Apple has also reportedly conducted similar talks with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The potential… Read More »

Elon Musk’s xAI releases Grok source and weights, taunting OpenAI

Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. reader comments 61 On Sunday, Elon Musk’s AI firm xAI released the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a large language model designed to compete with the models that power OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The open-weights release through GitHub and BitTorrent… Read More »

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

Getty Images reader comments 20 It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. Now, a software developer named Ishan Anand has managed to cram a precursor to ChatGPT called GPT-2—originally released in 2019 after some trepidation from OpenAI—into a working Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It’s freely… Read More »

OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 6, 2023, in San Francisco. reader comments 76 On Friday afternoon Pacific Time, OpenAI announced the appointment of three new members to the company’s board of directors and released the results of an independent review of the events surrounding CEO Sam… Read More »

Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers

reader comments 96 In a notable shift toward sanctioned use of AI in schools, some educators in grades 3–12 are now using a ChatGPT-powered grading tool called Writable, reports Axios. The tool, acquired last summer by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is designed to streamline the grading process, potentially offering time-saving benefits for teachers. But is it… Read More »

OpenAI responds to Elon Musk lawsuit by clarifying its “open“ nature

Benj Edwards / Getty Images reader comments 55 On Tuesday, OpenAI published a blog post titled “OpenAI and Elon Musk” in response to a lawsuit Musk filed last week. The ChatGPT maker shared several archived emails from Musk that suggest he once supported a pivot away from open source practices in the company’s quest to… Read More »

Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested

reader comments 86 On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when he tweeted about a scenario related to Claude 3 Opus, the largest version of a new large language model launched on Monday. Albert shared a story from internal testing of Opus where the model seemingly demonstrated… Read More »

The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities

Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude 3 logo. reader comments 92 On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of three AI language models similar to those that power ChatGPT. Anthropic claims the models set new industry benchmarks across a range of cognitive tasks, even approaching “near-human” capability in some cases. It’s available now through Anthropic’s… Read More »

Microsoft partners with OpenAI-rival Mistral for AI models, drawing EU scrutiny

reader comments 20 On Monday, Microsoft announced plans to offer AI models from Mistral through its Azure cloud computing platform, which came in conjunction with a 15 million euro non-equity investment in the French firm, which is often seen as a European rival to OpenAI. Since then, the investment deal has faced scrutiny from European… Read More »