Microsoft named Mustafa Suleyman as head of its consumer AI business. Suleyman was one of the co-founders of Inflection AI (creator of Pi) and ex-DeepMind. The company also hired more staff from the Inflection AI team.
Category: Corporate News
Apple Quietly Drops Research on a Multimodal LLM
13 Apple researchers published a research paper outlining how they learned the best practices to build a multimodal large language model that can deliver quality results and perform better than others.
Apple Quietly Working on Local AI
Apple has amped up its hiring and acquisitions, working on artificial intelligence tools and models for its next generation of products with the notable feature of running locally on the machines themselves.
Federal Trade Commission Investigates Microsoft, Amazon, and Google for Investments into OpenAI and Anthropic
The FTC aims to make sense of the various investments made by cloud providers into AI startups and how they affect the landscape of generative AI’s competitiveness.
NY Times Sues OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
The Times joins the fight against OpenAI’s LLMs using publishers’ work without permission and publicly featurng it to its users with a fresh lawsuit.
UK Supreme Court Rules AI Isn’t an Inventor
Founder’s petition to let his AI brainstorming system be named as an inventor of a product was denied in the UK.
Sam Altman Back at OpenAI After Microsoft Hires Him, Fires Board That Ousted Him
The drama concludes and Sam Altman goes back to OpenAI, not as a board member, and fires the previous board except one.
Sam Altman Fired From OpenAI: “Not Consistently Candid in His Communications”
Sam Altman fired by OpenAI’s board over lack of communication, talks reportedly ongoing to bring him back.
Google to Invest $2B in Anthropic
Google follows its $300M investment and Amazon’s $4B commitment with a new $2B investment into Anthropic, the company behind Claude 2.
Nvidia & Lenovo Partner for Enterprise-Grade AI Solutions
Lenovo & Nvidia have announced their partnership to enable enterprises to build and deploy custom, domain-specific AI models.