Google launches Gemini—a powerful AI model it says can surpass GPT-4

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On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini, a multimodal AI model family it hopes will rival OpenAI's GPT-4, which powers the paid version of ChatGPT. Google claims that the largest version of Gemini exceeds

IBM, Meta form “AI Alliance” with 50 organizations to promote open source AI

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On Tuesday, IBM and Meta announced the AI Alliance, an international coalition of over 50 organizations including AMD, Intel, NASA, CERN, and Harvard University that aims to advance "open innovation and open science

IBM, Meta form “AI Alliance” with 50 organizations to promote open source AI

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On Tuesday, IBM and Meta announced the AI Alliance, an international coalition of over 50 organizations including AMD, Intel, NASA, CERN, and Harvard University that aims to advance "open innovation and open science

1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study

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In a preprint research paper titled "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?", two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI's GPT-4 AI

ChatGPT was the spark that lit the fire under generative AI, one year ago today

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One year ago today, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI

ChatGPT was the spark that lit the fire under generative AI, one year ago today

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One year ago today, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI

Sam Altman officially back as OpenAI CEO: “We didn’t lose a single employee”

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On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that Sam Altman has officially returned to the ChatGPT-maker as CEO—accompanied by Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman as president—resuming their roles from before the shocking firing of Altman

Amazon unleashes Q, an AI assistant for the workplace

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On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled Amazon Q, an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that is tailored for corporate environments. Developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Q is designed to assist employees with tasks

Amazon unleashes Q, an AI assistant for the workplace

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On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled Amazon Q, an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that is tailored for corporate environments. Developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Q is designed to assist employees with tasks

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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On Friday, OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman in a surprise move that led to the resignation of President Greg Brockman and

“Hallucinating” AI models help coin Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year

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On Wednesday, Cambridge Dictionary announced that its 2023 word of the year is "hallucinate," owing to the popularity

Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral

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On Wednesday, Replicate developer Charlie Holtz combined GPT-4 Vision (commonly called GPT-4V) and ElevenLabs voice cloning technology

Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral

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On Wednesday, Replicate developer Charlie Holtz combined GPT-4 Vision (commonly called GPT-4V) and ElevenLabs voice cloning technology

Amdocs, NVIDIA and Microsoft Azure build custom LLMs for telcos

Amdocs has partnered with NVIDIA and Microsoft Azure to build custom Large Language Models (LLMs) for the $1.7 trillion global telecoms industry.

Leveraging the power of NVIDIA’s AI foundry service on Microsoft Azure, Amdocs aims to meet the escalating demand …

Nvidia introduces the H200, an AI-crunching monster GPU that may speed up ChatGPT

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On Monday, Nvidia announced the HGX H200 Tensor Core GPU, which

OpenAI introduces GPT-4 Turbo: Larger memory, lower cost, new knowledge

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On Monday at the OpenAI DevDay event, company CEO Sam Altman announced a major update to its GPT-4 language model called GPT-4 Turbo, which can process a much larger amount of text than GPT-4 and features

Elon Musk’s new AI model doesn’t shy from questions about cocaine and orgies

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On Saturday, Elon Musk announced xAI's launch of an early beta version of "Grok," an AI language model similar to ChatGPT that is designed to respond to user queries with a mix of

“Catastrophic” AI harms among warnings in declaration signed by 28 nations

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On Wednesday,

University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade

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On Friday, a team of researchers at the University of Chicago released a research paper outlining "Nightshade," a data poisoning technique aimed at disrupting the training process for AI models, reports MIT Technology Review and VentureBeat.

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