It has already changed how ny family works (at least, me and two of my daughters). It is amazing how much quicker you can accomplish research.![]()
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration, says ‘it’s not for a company to decide'
The executive told "60 Minutes" that the technology is moving fast and "it’s not for a company to decide."www.cnbc.com
Google CEO says AI is going to disrupt virtually everything. I'm not so sure I agree with him though.
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So, how smart is ChatGPT?
In a technical report released on March 27, 2023, OpenAI provided a comprehensive brief on its most recent model, known as GPT-4. Included in this report were a set of exam results, which we’ve visualized in the graphic above.
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Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research execs, is taking full advantage of the market hype.
The company on Tuesday said it raised $450 million, which marks the largest AI funding round this year since Microsoft's investment in OpenAI in January, according to PitchBook data.
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Google is among the lead investors in Anthropic's latest funding round, alongside Salesforce Ventures, Zoom Ventures and Spark Capital. The announcement comes two months after Anthropic raised $300 million in funding at a $4.1 billion valuation.
A month before that, Google invested $300 million in the company, taking a 10% stake. Notably, the backer is listed as Google and not one of the Alphabet's investment arms, GV or CapitalG.
Anthropic is the company behind Claude, a rival chatbot to OpenAI's ChatGPT. It was founded by Dario Amodei, OpenAI's former vice president of research, and his sister Daniela Amodei, who was OpenAI's vice president of safety and policy. Several other OpenAI research alumni were also on Anthropic's founding team.
"This is definitely a big deal in the generative AI space," said Ali Javaheri, an associate research analyst at PitchBook. It "shows that OpenAI is not the only player in the game, that it's still a very competitive space," he said.
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Nvidia's stock surged close to a $1 trillion market cap in extended trading Wednesday after it reported a shockingly strong forward outlook, and CEO Jensen Huang said the company was going to have a "giant record year."
Sales are up because of spiking demand for the graphics processors (GPUs) that Nvidia makes, which power artificial intelligence applications like those at Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
Demand for AI chips in data centers spurred Nvidia to guide for $11 billion in sales during the current quarter, blowing away analyst estimates of $7.15 billion.
"The flashpoint was generative AI," Huang said in an interview with CNBC. "We know that CPU scaling has slowed, we know that accelerated computing is the path forward, and then the killer app showed up."
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