Sam Altman on AI's future, Elon Musk's startup, Apple's chips, and selling Nvidia stock: AI news roundup – Quartz
The artificial intelligence race wouldn’t be full speed ahead without chips. And that in itself is becoming a race between companies — and even governments. On Monday, the Biden administration announced it was allocating $285 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding to companies that can establish and operate an institution focused on so-called digital twins, or virtual models, of semiconductors. Digital twins can make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper — something the U.S. is interested in as it competes with China.
Meanwhile, Apple is reportedly developing AI chips with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, allowing it to run AI software on its own chips in data centers. Apple also announced its latest iPad Pro with a new chip, the M4, that it says will boost the efficiency of AI applications on the device.
Check out these stories and more from the week in AI news.
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Fei-Fei Li, is a computer scientist who created a massive database, ImageNet, that laid the foundation for modern AI, earning her the nickname “godmother of AI.” Now, she’s an AI policy adviser to the Biden Administration and the co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. And she thinks the widespread “doom and gloom” about AI is overblown.
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Where OpenAI’s mission has focused on bringing AI to scale, its rival Anthropic has focused on safety and security. And its co-founders, siblings and former OpenAI employees Daniela and Dario Amodei, say their concerns about AI’s potential for harm originate from watching the evolution of other technologies.
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4 / 20
French artificial intelligence startup, Mistral AI, is reportedly expected to nearly triple its valuation to $6 billion in six months in a new funding round.
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5 / 20
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence rival to OpenAI is reportedly expected to reach an $18 billion valuation after it closes its current funding round.
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Big banks are adding artificial intelligence-focused jobs at increasing speeds, despite industry-wide cuts.
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7 / 20
Generative artificial intelligence is seeping into workplaces, and despite fears the technology will replace workers some overwhelmed employees are embracing it for productivity, a new report says.
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8 / 20
Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar bet on artificial intelligence keeps growing — this time with a data center in Wisconsin.
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9 / 20
Steg.AI co-founder Eric Wengrowski explains how his company works with governments and companies to authenticate online content
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10 / 20
Sam Altman heads the company driving the current generative artificial intelligence hype — and he says it’s nothing compared to what’s coming next.
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11 / 20
OpenAI is tackling an increasingly pressing issue: fake images generated by its own technology.
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12 / 20
Apple on Tuesday announced its latest iPad Pro with a new chip that it promises will majorly boost the efficiency of AI applications run on the device.
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13 / 20
Apple is reportedly developing AI chips in partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The initiative code-named Project ACDC, for “Apple Chips in Data Center,” would allow Apple to run artificial intelligence software on its own chips in data centers.
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14 / 20
Premier chipmaker Nvidia has been on a streak this year due to the artificial intelligence boom, but not all of its investors are fully buying into the hype.
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15 / 20
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) makes an estimated 90% of the world’s cutting-edge logic chips — the tech that powers some of the most advanced electronics on Earth, from iPhones to artificial intelligence models.
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16 / 20
Defense-tech company Palantir Technologies beat analyst expectations for revenue in its first-quarter earnings report, citing demand by U.S. companies for its bootcamps and technology products.
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17 / 20
Microsoft is reportedly training its own artificial intelligence model to compete with models from Google and OpenAI, which it has a multi-year, multibillion-dollar partnership with.
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Google’s new threat intelligence solution includes a generative artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that can analyze potential malware and quickly provide a summary for customers so they can tackle threats faster.
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The Biden administration is looking for proposals from companies that can establish and operate an institution that will develop “digital twins” of semiconductors, with the opportunity to receive up to $285 million in funding.
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