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On 9 and 10 November 2022, Creative Commons hosted a pair of webinars on artificial intelligence (AI). We assembled two panels of experts at the intersection of AI, art, data, and intellectual property law to look at issues related to AI inputs — works used in training and supplying AI — and another focused on how open... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Multiple generative AI apps have been removed from Apple's China App Store, two weeks ahead of the country's new generative AI regulations that are set to take effect on August 15. From a report: The move came after Chinese developers received notices from Apple informing them of their apps' removal. In its letter to O... | AI Policy and Regulations |
As lawmakers worldwide attempt to understand how to regulate rapidly advancing AI technologies, Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwarz told attendees of the World Economic Forum Growth Summit today that "we shouldn't regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm that is actually happening, not imaginary scenarios."
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Artificial intelligence is far from new, yet it continues to enthrall the world. It entered its current golden age in the 1970s, but is still making headlines. In April, for example, a Japanese city decided to delegate some administrative government work to ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot released a mere six months prev... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Sam Altman wants to hit the reset button. The OpenAI CEO threw a tantrum last week when it became apparent that the European Union planned to go ahead with a proposed law that would institute a broad regulatory framework to protect against the more disruptive impacts of artificial intelligence. While Altman himself has... | AI Policy and Regulations |
In its bid to curb misinformation, TikTok said on Tuesday it will begin launching a new tool that will help creators label AI-generated content they produce.
TikTok said in a news release that the tool will help creators easily comply with the company's existing AI policy, which requires all manipulated content that sh... | AI Policy and Regulations |
China’s top digital regulator proposed bold new guidelines this week that prohibit ChatGPT-style large language models from spitting out content believed to subvert state power or advocate for the overthrow of the country’s communist political system. Experts speaking with Gizmodo said the new guidelines mark the clear... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Sam Altman says OpenAI could leave EU over proposed AI law
OpenAI LP Chief Executive Sam Altman says a proposed artificial intelligence law in the European Union could lead the startup to shutter its regional operations.
The Financial Times reported Altman’s remarks today. The executive detailed OpenAI’s position durin... | AI Policy and Regulations |
On Wednesday, New York City imposed a new law regulating companies that use artificial intelligence to screen candidates for open positions. The city’s Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) law requires companies to prove their AI tool is free from racial and gender bias before it can be used.
AEDT Law, also known... | AI Policy and Regulations |
AI is defining the future, even as many US senators struggle to understand it in the present.“It would have been better if it had been held in a room where the acoustics were better,” Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, says of a much-anticipated—if overdue—All-Senators AI briefing orchestrated by Senate Majori... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Fox News China expert Gordon Chang revealed the startling reason why the Chinese Communist Party is requiring AI to “reflect socialist values” in its new artificial intelligence regulations.
The Communist Chinese government unveiled a slew of insane regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) that would give it control... | AI Policy and Regulations |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – AI regulation is in the hands of "JCPenney leisure suit"-wearing lawmakers who still have "8-track tape players," which could mean trouble, says one Republican lawmaker.
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives took a small step toward building an AI regulatory framework by advancing the AI Accou... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Some of the most powerful people in America assembled in Washington, DC, today to help shape the future of artificial intelligence (AI) safeguards.
The unprecedented meeting took place as the US Senate gears up to draft legislation that will regulate the rapidly advancing AI industry, which many of the world's best mi... | AI Policy and Regulations |
UNITED NATIONS -- Just a few years ago, artificial intelligence got barely a mention at the U.N. General Assembly's convocation of world leaders.
But after the release of ChatGPT last fall turbocharged both excitement and anxieties about AI, it's been a sizzling topic this year at diplomacy's biggest yearly gathering.
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House lawmakers are urging federal agencies to quickly and aggressively adopt artificial intelligence technology, at a time when the push from civil rights and industry groups for new AI regulations is still waiting to get off the ground.
The House Appropriations Committee, led by Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, released se... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced that the US needed a bill of rights for the age of algorithms. Harms from artificial intelligence disproportionately impact marginalized communities, the office’s director and deputy director wrote in a WIRED op-ed, and so government guidance ... | AI Policy and Regulations |
- After the Biden administration unveiled the first-ever AI executive order on Monday, leaders across industries began digging in to the 111-page document.
- One core debate centers on a question of AI fairness: Does the executive order focus enough on addressing real-world harms that stem from AI models — especially t... | AI Policy and Regulations |
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday outlined his two-pronged approach for crafting artificial intelligence (AI) policy, as Congress and the administration race to regulate the booming industry.
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Google Bard, its ChatGPT rivalling AI assistant, expands to 180 countries. But it won’t be available in the EU or Canada. EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) might be the reason for the exclusion. Google’s I/O event showcased AI developments, Bard access expansion, and new language support, but EU countries ... | AI Policy and Regulations |
(Bloomberg) -- Beijing is poised to implement sweeping new regulations for artificial intelligence services this week, trying to balance state control of the technology with enough support that its companies can become viable global competitors.
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The government issued 24 guidelines that require ... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Nearly one year after the technology firm OpenAI released the chatbot ChatGPT, companies are in an arms race to develop ‘generative’ artificial-intelligence (AI) systems that are ever more powerful. Each version adds capabilities that increasingly encroach on human skills. By producing text, images, videos and even com... | AI Policy and Regulations |
White House sends hackers against the most powerful AIs
For the Biden administration, a question hangs over the biggest tech development in years: How big a security threat is it?
On Friday, in hotels across Las Vegas, some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems will come under simultaneous attack... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Make way for yet another headline-grabbing AI policy intervention: Hundreds of AI scientists, academics, tech CEOs and public figures — from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis to veteran AI computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, MIT’s Max Tegmark and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn to Grimes the musician ... | AI Policy and Regulations |
The U.S. will likely have a tough time trying to regulate AI-generated content, such as requiring watermarks on computer-made media, a university art lecturer told Fox News.
"[F]or us to enforce it would be a lot more difficult," Tyler Coleman, who teaches University of Texas classes focused on AI, said. "I think it wi... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Nearly seven months after it began publishing machine-generated stories without disclosing their true authorship (or lack thereof) to readers, CNET has finally, publicly changed its policy on the use of AI in its journalistic endeavors. In short, stories written by its in-house artificial intelligence — which it calls ... | AI Policy and Regulations |
With AI large language models like ChatGPT being developed around the globe, countries have raced to regulate AI. Some have drafted strict laws on the technology, while others lack regulatory oversight.
China and the EU have received particular attention, as they have created detailed, yet divergent, AI regulations. In... | AI Policy and Regulations |
On Wednesday, the UK hosted an AI Safety Summit attended by 28 countries, including the US and China, which gathered to address potential risks posed by advanced AI systems, reports The New York Times. The event included the signing of "The Bletchley Declaration," which warns of potential harm from advanced AI and call... | AI Policy and Regulations |
On the picket lines outside Los Angeles film studios, artificial intelligence has become a central antagonist of the Hollywood writers’ strike, with signs warning studio executives that writers will not let themselves be replaced by ChatGPT
That hasn’t stopped tech industry players from selling the promise of a future ... | AI Policy and Regulations |
LONDON (AP) — The breathtaking development of artificial intelligence has dazzled users by composing music, creating images and writing essays, while also raising fears about its implications. Even European Union officials working on groundbreaking rules to govern the emerging technology were caught off guard by AI’s r... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Eric Schmidt speaks at an emerging technology summit on July 13, 2021 in Washington, D.C. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who has long sought influence over White House science policy, is helping to fund the salaries of more than two dozen officials in the Biden administration under ... | AI Policy and Regulations |
After ChatGPT burst on the scene last November, some government officials raced to prohibit its use. Italy banned the chatbot. New York City, Los Angeles Unified, Seattle, and Baltimore School Districts either banned or blocked access to generative AI tools, fearing that ChatGPT, Bard, and other content generation site... | AI Policy and Regulations |
The UK should introduce new legislation to control artificial intelligence or risk falling behind the EU and the US in setting the pace for regulating the technology, MPs have said.
Rishi Sunak’s government was urged to act as it prepares to host a global AI safety summit at Bletchley Park, home of the Enigma codebreak... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced that the US needed a bill of rights for the age of algorithms. Harms from artificial intelligence disproportionately impact marginalized communities, the office’s director and deputy director wrote in a WIRED op-ed, and so government gu... | AI Policy and Regulations |
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received a new complaint today from the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), which calls for an investigation of OpenAI and its product GP... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Schumer tees up Senate plan for AI regulation
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday outlined his two-pronged approach for crafting artificial intelligence (AI) policy, as Congress and the administration race to regulate the booming industry.
The Democratic leader unveiled his framework for AI regul... | AI Policy and Regulations |
The Biden Administration is reportedly set to unveil a broad executive order on artificial intelligence next week. According to The Washington Post, the White House’s “sweeping order” would use the federal government’s purchasing power to enforce requirements on AI models before government agencies can use them. The or... | AI Policy and Regulations |
(Bloomberg) -- The US warned the European Union that its proposed law to regulate artificial intelligence would favor companies with the resources to cover the costs of compliance while hurting smaller firms, according to previously undisclosed documents.
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The US analysis focuses mostly on the E... | AI Policy and Regulations |
Ashton Kutcher says your company will probably be 'out of business' if you're 'sleeping' on AI
- During a panel, Ashton Kutcher said that companies not using AI tools like ChatGPT will shutter.
- The actor and investor said AI like ChatGPT has the "power" and "potential" to benefit humanity.
Stars, they're just like us... | AI Startups |
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Couple of quick things: Apply now to pitch at TechCrunch Live’s Atlanta pitch-off. Also, today’s head scratcher of an article is from Devin, who reports that Acapela lets a... | AI Startups |
If you look past the financial headlines, what are today’s AI startups building?
News coverage of the AI boom has been hectic and mainly covered a few categories: Financial, big tech, concern and hype, and startup activity. The financial side is simple: Investors are working to put capital into companies that are eithe... | AI Startups |
German AI start-up Aleph Alpha has raised a Series B funding round of $500 million from a consortium of seven new investors, as well as existing investors from previous rounds.
Founded in 2019, Aleph Alpha’s funding may be dwarfed by that of Microsoft-backed OpenAI ($11.3B), but the startup makes great play of the fact... | AI Startups |
Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now, with $4.5 billion invested in 2022. Narrato, a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. Based in San Francisco, Narrato raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by AirTree ... | AI Startups |
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field with the potential to revolutionize many industries. As AI technology continues to develop, there will be an increasing demand for skilled AI professionals. This means that there are many opportunities to make money with AI.
Here are a few ways to make money with ... | AI Startups |
Developer velocity, the speed at which an organization ships code, is often impacted by necessary but lengthy processes like code review, writing documentation and testing. Inefficiencies threaten to make theses processes even longer. According to one source, developers waste 17.3 hours per week due to technical debt a... | AI Startups |
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The event horizon for when we can expect to end up in (literal) hot water when it comes to climate has come a lot closer. You wanna know how close? The climate deadline is close enough that it is interesting to VCs again. VC is an ... | AI Startups |
China's top SUV maker to add ChatGPT-like bot into carsGreat Wall Motor will use Baidu's Ernie 3.5 foundational language model which rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT4.Jijo Malayil| Aug 04, 2023 06:00 PM ESTCreated: Aug 04, 2023 06:00 PM ESTtransportationEmpty cockpit of autonomous carmetamorworks/iStock Stay ahead of your peers... | AI Startups |
As Google continues to refine its own AI chatbot named Bard, its parent company Alphabet Inc. has a clear directive for its employees: Be careful around chatbots, even Bard.
Four sources close to the matter told Reuters that the massive tech giant has advised employees not to enter confidential information into chatbot... | AI Startups |
The European Union has signalled a plan to expand access to its high performance computing (HPC) supercomputers by letting startups use the resource to train AI models. However there’s a catch: Startups wanting to gain access to the EU’s high power compute resource — which currently includes pre-exascale and petascale ... | AI Startups |
(Bloomberg) -- OpenAI is now letting users build custom versions of ChatGPT to accomplish specific personal and professional tasks as the artificial intelligence startup works to beat back competition in an increasingly crowded market.
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With the new option, users will be able to quickly create t... | AI Startups |
Imbue, the AI research lab formerly known as Generally Intelligent, has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at over $1 billion. Among those participating are the Astera Institute, Nvidia, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt and Notion co-founder Simon Last.
The new tranche takes Imbue’s total raise... | AI Startups |
An app called Poe will now let users make their own chatbot using prompts combined with an existing bot, like ChatGPT, as the base. First launched publicly in February, Poe is the latest product from the Q&A site Quora, which has long provided web searchers with answers to the most Googled questions. With chatbots now ... | AI Startups |
Illustration: Aïda Amer/AxiosGoogle's research arm on Wednesday showed off a whiz-bang assortment of artificial intelligence (AI) projects it's incubating, aimed at everything from mitigating climate change to helping novelists craft prose.Why it matters: AI has breathtaking potential to improve and enrich our lives — ... | AI Startups |
When I mentioned “the rise of AI” in a recent email to investors, one of them sent me an interesting reply: “The ‘rise of AI’ is a bit of a misnomer.”
What that investor, Rudina Seseri, a managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, means to say is that sophisticated technologies like AI and deep learning have been around f... | AI Startups |
The UK isn’t going to be setting hard rules for AI any time soon.
Today, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published a white paper setting out the government’s preference for a light-touch approach to regulating artificial intelligence. It’s kicking off a public consultation process — seeking... | AI Startups |
Amazon is throwing its hat into the generative AI ring. But rather than build AI models entirely by itself, it’s recruiting third parties to host models on AWS.
AWS today unveiled Amazon Bedrock, which provides a way to build generative AI-powered apps via pretrained models from startups including AI21 Labs, Anthropic ... | AI Startups |
(Bloomberg) -- Salesforce Inc. is elevating new generative artificial intelligence features in its products and doubling its investment in AI startups as the company banks on the emerging technology to help resuscitate sales growth.
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The software maker’s venture capital fund focused on generativ... | AI Startups |
A tougher fundraising environment reveals which companies and sectors investors have real conviction in, and which areas aren’t attractive outside of a bull market. AI startups dominated dealmaking this year, but there is another sector that VCs have stayed committed to: defense tech.
We saw the latest example of this ... | AI Startups |
We’re pleased to announce that Disrupt, TechCrunch’s annual flagship conference, will feature a new stage this year: the AI Stage.
The AI Stage will feature experts from across the AI landscape, including ethicists, entrepreneurs and investors enmeshed in developments around AI and machine learning technologies. Their ... | AI Startups |
A serial artificial intelligence investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes may soon advance to the degree of divinity.
In an op-ed for the Financial Times, AI mega-investor Ian Hogarth recalled a recent anecdote in which a machine learning researcher with... | AI Startups |
Chatbots are AI programs that can talk to humans. They can do many things, like help customers, entertain users, or teach students.
Some chatbots, like ChatGPT or Bard, use large language models that can write texts on any topic. They can also learn from data and conversations.
But these chatbots may leak sensitive inf... | AI Startups |
As the race to build generative AI tools for the enterprise devolves into a battle royale, big tech companies are busy wielding their most powerful weapons: checkbooks.
The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.
Earlier today, Typeface raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, mere months after a $65 milli... | AI Startups |
The House Fund, the pre-seed and early stage venture capital fund focused on UC Berkeley startups, specifically AI startups, today announced that it’s closed its third tranche — Fund III — at $115 million.
With the close of Fund III, Ken Goldberg, the UC Berkeley professor and prolific roboticist, will join The House F... | AI Startups |
How dangerous is AI? Regulate it before it’s too late
As an Artificial Intelligence researcher, I’ve always felt the worst feature of AI is its role in the spread of lies. The AI-amplification of lies in Myanmar reportedly contributed to the Rohingya massacre, the spread of COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation likely co... | AI Startups |
MindsDB helps developers apply machine learning to their data to build AI applications.
Founded in 2017, the startup began as an AI open source project that some doubted in its early days.
Now MindsDB has 100 enterprise customers and recently raised $25 million in a seed extension round.
MindsDB cofounder and CEO Jorge... | AI Startups |
The U.S.-China decoupling is giving rise to a divided tech landscape between the two major economies, shaping the development of the red-hot area of generative AI, which turns text into various forms of content like prose, images, and videos.
China, in order to reduce dependence on the U.S. technological foundation, ha... | AI Startups |
Dust is a new AI startup based in France that is working on improving team productivity by breaking down internal silos, surfacing important knowledge and providing tools to build custom internal apps. At its core, Dust is using large language models (LLMs) on internal company data to give new super powers to team memb... | AI Startups |
When it first appeared on the scene around ten years ago, Notion Capital was poised to take advantage of the oft-repeated phrase, “Software is eating the world.” In particular, it was aiming at what was then called the enterprise SaaS space. Several years on, and it’s capitalised on that thesis, investing in in more th... | AI Startups |
Pranjali Awasthi, 16, came up with her startup while interning in university research labs.
She was accepted to the September 2021 HF0 residency where she launched her product.
Awasthi is skipping college to focus on building Delv.AI after finishing high school early.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation wi... | AI Startups |
OpenAI boss Sam Altman admitted a computer chip shortage is hindering ChatGPT’s progress during an off-the-record meeting in London last month – the details of which surfaced after one attendee mistakenly published a blog post about the event.
Altman’s candid remarks to a roomful of app developers and startup founders ... | AI Startups |
OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips.
Discussions of AI chip strategies within the company have been ongoing since at least last year, according to Reuters, as the shortage of chips to train AI models worsens. OpenAI is reportedly considering a number of strategie... | AI Startups |
It's that time of year again: the week when startups in Y Combinator's latest batch present their products for media -- and investor -- scrutiny. Over the next two days, roughly 217 companies will present in total, a tad smaller than last winter's 235-firm cohort as VC enthusiasm a slight slump.
In the first half of 20... | AI Startups |
Anguilla, a tiny British island territory in the Caribbean, may bring in up to $30 million in revenue this year thanks to its ".ai" domain name, reports Bloomberg in a piece published Thursday. Over the past year, skyrocketing interest in AI has made the country's ".ai" top-level domain particularly attractive to tech ... | AI Startups |
- Generative AI in supply chains will be able to forecast demand, predict when trucks need maintenance and work out optimal shipping routes, according to analysts.
- "AI may be able to totally (or nearly) remove all human touchpoints in the supply chain including 'back office' tasks," said Morgan Stanley analysts.
- Bu... | AI Startups |
Microsoft’s Cloud Recovery Is Outshining Rivals Amazon, Google
The software maker’s business is likely getting a boost from an alliance with startup OpenAI.
(Bloomberg) -- In the race to rebound from a two-year slowdown in spending on cloud computing, Microsoft Corp. is pulling ahead of its chief rivals, Amazon.com Inc... | AI Startups |
Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. But as last year’s crypto experts quickly work to rebrand as AI experts, they’ll have to compete with the VCs who have been investing in the category all along.
Seattle-based Ascend is one of them. Firm founder and solo GP K... | AI Startups |
It seems like it’s the best of times for founders thinking about launching an AI startup, especially with OpenAI releasing ChatGPT to the masses, as it has the potential to really put AI front and center in business and perhaps everything we do technologically. Who wouldn’t want to launch a startup right now with the e... | AI Startups |
The creation of a new market is like the start of a long race. Competitors jockey for position as spectators excitedly clamour. Then, like races, markets enter a calmer second phase. The field orders itself into leaders and laggards. The crowds thin.
In the contest to dominate the future of artificial intelligence, Ope... | AI Startups |
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform, weaving more generative AI into its products and positioning itself as a one-stop shop for cloud customers seeking to tap into the technology.
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Tech veteran Chris Messina and writer/podcaster Brian McCullough are launching a new $15 million fund aimed at AI startups. The backers include tech luminary investors and founders such as Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Dennis Crowley, who are all investing personally.
McCullough has been running his Ride Home Fund ... | AI Startups |
AI Looks Like a Bubble
Investors need to take a cold shower
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Bubbles are when people buy too much dumb stuff because they think there is someone dumber than the... | AI Startups |
Building a durable growth funnel doesn’t just scale your business: it also signals to investors that a team can move directionally, which is a major confidence builder.
“Acquisition, activation and retention are critical,” writes Jonathan Martinez, TC+’s in-house growth expert. “While referral and monetization are also... | AI Startups |
Shutterstock today announced that it plans to expand its existing deal with OpenAI to provide the startup with training data for its AI models.
Over the next six years, OpenAI will license data from Shutterstock including images, videos and music as well as any associated metadata. Shutterstock, in turn, will gain “pri... | AI Startups |
A boom in artificial intelligence startup funding sparked by OpenAI has spilled over to China, the world's second-biggest venture capital market. Now American institutional investors are indirectly financing a rash of Chinese AI startups aspiring to be China's answer to OpenAI. From a report: The American investors, in... | AI Startups |
- A Reddit vice president, Jack Hanlon, left the company earlier this year after nearly four years.
- Hanlon led a team investing in artificial intelligence for both users and advertisers.
- The company filed for an IPO in 2021, and it could go public as soon as this year.
A vice president of Reddit overseeing the inte... | AI Startups |
Microsoft just kicked off its big press event where it's expected to talk about OpenAI's ChatGPT and how Microsoft will use it in its products. The event will not stream live for the public, but CNBC and other media outlets will be there to cover the news live.
OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, on Monday tweeted a photo of him... | AI Startups |
Oct 27 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, a spokesperson for the startup said on Friday.
The company has invested $500 million upfront into the OpenAI rival and agreed to add $1.5 billion more over time, the spokesperson said.
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While AI, and in particular the generative AI subcategory, are as hot as the sun, not all venture attention is going to the handful of names that you already know. Sure, OpenAI is able to land nine and 10-figure rounds from a murderer’s row of tech investors and mega-cap corporations. And rising companies like Hugging ... | AI Startups |
OpenAI has finally released the official ChatGPT app for iPhone, which you can download from the App Store in the US right now. That means you no longer have to worry about third-party apps or Safari to get to ChatGPT on your iPhone. But Apple has reportedly issued an internal memo to restrict ChatGPT and other generat... | AI Startups |
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 the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own.
It could be said that last week, Apple very visibly, and with ... | AI Startups |
Intel Corp. has introduced a processor in China that is designed for AI deep-learning applications despite reports of the Biden administration considering additional restrictions on Chinese companies to address loopholes in chip export controls.
The chip giant’s product launch on July 11 is part of an effort by U.S. te... | AI Startups |
- AI may be the hottest thing in the technology industry, but OpenAI's ChatGPT is not on pace to challenge Google's grip as the search engine leader, according to new analysis from Bank of America Securities.
- Analysts found that app downloads for ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing have slowed in recent weeks, citing Sensor T... | AI Startups |
Getty Images has filed a lawsuit in the US against Stability AI, creators of open-source AI art generator Stable Diffusion, escalating its legal battle against the firm.
The stock photography company is accusing Stability AI of “brazen infringement of Getty Images’ intellectual property on a staggering scale.” It claim... | AI Startups |
Altman said there's too much short-term investor frenzy, and not enough long-term vision.
"There's crazy stuff happening in Silicon Valley right now," the OpenAI CEO said.
Altman made the comments at a recent event in India, as part of his AI speaking world tour.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks there's too much investor h... | AI Startups |
xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation.
“The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” according to the we... | AI Startups |
That was quick: Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to novelty to Thing We Are Sure Is the Future. Very, very fast.
One easy way to measure the change is via headlines — like the ones announcing Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in OpenAI, the company behind the dazzling ChatGPT text generator, follo... | AI Startups |
With the rise of open-source AI models, the commoditization of this groundbreaking technology is upon us. It’s easy to fall into the trap of aiming a newly-released model at a desirable tech demographic and hoping it catches on.
Creating a moat when so many models are easily accessible creates a dilemma for early-stage... | AI Startups |
Y Combinator’s Latest Batch Is 35% AI Startups
The latest group of Y Combinator companies will be in the Bay Area in person.
(Bloomberg) -- More than one-third of the famed startup accelerator Y Combinator’s latest batch of companies are focused specifically on artificial intelligence.
Y Combinator received a record 24... | AI Startups |
When employees leave Google to join the artificial intelligence startup race, the search giant still has a way to benefit -- by keeping those former workers as cloud customers. From a report: More than half of venture-backed generative AI startups pay for Google's cloud computing platform, Alphabet, Google's parent com... | AI Startups |
Just over a year ago, the idea of generating realistic images from a prompt would have been called a batshit crazy idea. Fast forwarding a few months, we have AI generators that can produce a full 3D model, with all the textures added, with just a single sentence.Luma AI, a startup aiming to make 3D models as easy as “... | AI Startups |
Mayfield is nearly doubling its investing pace this year, while other firms are pulling back.
The longtime VC firm just announced a new $250 million seed fund focused on AI.
In tough economic times, the firm's leader, Navin Chaddha, believes it's a prime time to invest.
Slow and steady wins the race. That has essential... | AI Startups |
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