Tag Archives: Simon Willison

Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place

reader comments 164 Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has a vision for the future of work: sending your AI-powered digital twin to attend meetings on your behalf. In an interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel published Monday, Yuan shared his plans for Zoom to become an “AI-first company,” using AI to automate tasks and reduce the… Read More »

Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name

Getty Images reader comments 31 On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as “gpt-chatbot” that had been undergoing testing on LMSYS’s Chatbot Arena and frustrating experts was, in fact, OpenAI’s newly announced GPT-4o AI model. He also revealed that GPT-4o had topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard,… Read More »

Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts

reader comments 25 On Sunday, word began to spread on social media about a new mystery chatbot named “gpt2-chatbot” that appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena. Some people speculate that it may be a secret test version of OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 large language model (LLM). The paid version of ChatGPT is currently powered… Read More »

Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models

Getty Images reader comments 20 On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. Its small size is ideal for running locally, which could bring an AI model of similar capability to… Read More »

Words are flowing out like endless rain: Recapping a busy week of LLM news

Enlarge / An image of a boy amazed by flying letters. reader comments 17 Some weeks in AI news are eerily quiet, but during others, getting a grip on the week’s events feels like trying to hold back the tide. This week has seen three notable large language model (LLM) releases: Google Gemini Pro 1.5… 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 »

People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality

Enlarge / Joaquin Phoenix talking with AI in Her (2013). Warner Bros. reader comments 88 with In 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness. Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT’s recently added voice features, people are playing out a small slice… Read More »