Sam Altman is reportedly set to return to OpenAI’s board following his ouster late last year. That’s because a review has determined there is no evidence he should have been fired, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (March 8). Altman was removed from his positions as CEO and board member from the artificial intelligence (AI) firm he helped start …
Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Beata Zawrzel | Nurphoto | Getty Images Rather, Musk is alleging that the early OpenAI team had set out to develop artificial …
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from January 15 to 19. Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg—Getty Images OpenAI, Salesforce Inc. and other tech companies …
Groq, an AI chip company, wants everyone to forget about Elon Musk’s snarky chatbot with nearly the same name, Grok. Lightning-fast demos from Groq went viral this weekend, making current versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and even Grok look sluggish. Groq claims to provide “the world’s fastest large language models,” and third-party tests are saying that …
Sam Altman’s aspiration to amass approximately $7 trillion for the production of AI chips unveils a narrative that extends beyond his seemingly audacious goals. As a report in Bloomberg says, firstly, the infrastructure required for AI development has become prohibitively costly. Secondly, a significant portion of this value is still reportedly predominantly controlled by a …
To control compute – to squeeze or open the spigot of processing power – is to control AI. In doing so, AI can be steered toward beneficial results while avoiding, or punishing, bad ones. That’s the argument put forward in a 78-page white paper issued by 15 research centers and universities in the U.S., Canada …
This month, Apple released its first truly anticipated product in years, the Apple Vision Pro. It’s a groundbreaking device, with some of the best hardware specs and the most impressive performance of any commercial headset ever released. It’s also a $3,500 toy, one that an untold number of people seem to regret taking home. If …
One of the leading artificial intelligence (AI) stocks on the market was left far behind by investors on Tuesday. C3.ai (NYSE: AI) saw its share price crumble by almost 8% on the back of comments made by a leading executive in the AI field, as well as regulatory developments overseas. That decline was far sharper …
Meter founders Sunil and Anil Varanasi believe there’s still big money in switchers and routers. Meter Meter, led by brothers Anil and Sunil Varanasi, has raised $35 million at a valuation of more than $350 million to bring networking tech into the AI age. While AI companies amass vast sums of money and computing power …
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the World Economic Forum, at Davos, in Switzerland, January 2024. Hollie Adams—Bloomberg/Getty Images OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7 trillion for a new AI chip project. That’s a lot of money. To be specific, it’s more than the entire federal budget, twice the U.K.’s annual …