Meta makes Llama 2 free for research & commercial use and partners with Microsoft, among other companies, to offer its powerful LLM.
Category: Corporate News
Apple is Working on Apple GPT
Apple joins the AI craze, likely to begin with a ChatGPT/Bard competitor. Internally dubbed Apple GPT.
Bill Gates Invests in GeologicAI for AI-powered Robot Geologists
Bill Gates’ fund invests $20M in AI-enhanced geological robotics startup for clean energy.
DigitalOcean Enters AI Race—Acquires AI Startup Paperspace for $111M in Cash
DigitalOcean acquires Paperspace to diversify into AI and ML tooling for developers.
Inflection AI Plans $1.3B Supercomputer
Inflection AI’s cluster using 22K Nvidia H100s will perform at 1.474 exaflops (FP64), second only to The Frontier.
ChatGPT Plus Removes Browse Feature
Browse with Bing could be used to bypass paywalls, cookie consents, and publisher’s ads. It’s been temporarily removed.
Meta Unveils MTIA—AI Acceleration Chips to Replace Traditional GPUs
MTIA is an ASIC for accelerating AI workloads for Meta, which can beat traditional GPUs in efficiency.
Bullish AI Companies Propel the S&P 500
S&P 500 wouldn’t have performed nearly as well as it did in Q1-2023 if it wasn’t for the AI boom.
AI Replaces 3,900 Jobs: Report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas
A new report mentions 3,900 job cuts owing to “AI” in May, corresponding to ~5% of all job cuts the very first time AI was included as a reason.
G7 World Leaders to Sign “Hiroshima AI Process” for AI Governance
In a new development, the G7 summit in Japan recognized the need to govern generative AI to prevent misuse.