8 daily newspapers including New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune sued OpenAI and Microsoft accusing the companies of using news content illegally to train and power their chatbots.
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Microsoft Announces New AI Models Called Phi-3
The AI department of Microsoft has released 3 weights of a new family of language models called Phi-3 that primarily displays the importance of training in keeping a model’s sizes small while improving the quality of its output.
Microsoft Researchers Publish VASA-1, Make Deepfaking Legitimate
Microsoft researchers have released a paper on their newest project VASA-1. You feed it a single picture of a person and a speech sample. It can then generate a talking face out of that with perfect lip-sync.
Microsoft & OpenAI Plan $100B Supercomputer
OpenAI and Microsoft are planning a supercomputer to be ready by 2028 that could cost around $100 billion as per current estimates (likely to go up) and run on nuclear power.
Microsoft’s Copilot Will Run on Windows Machines Locally
Intel confirmed that the Copilot app will be able to run locally on Windows PCs with more advanced hardware, particularly NPUs.
Microsoft Hires Inflection AI & DeepMind Co-Founder
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.
Microsoft’s Future of Work Report Shows the Power of GenAI
Microsoft’s latest Future of Work Report comments on how AI is reshaping how we work, presenting generative AI in an overwhelmingly positive light.
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.
Microsoft Quietly Launches Copilot App with Free GPT-4 & DALL-E 3 Access
Microsoft launched the Copilot app with free GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 access (for original image creation) over the holidays on the Play Store and the App Store without any official announcement.
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.