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Microsoft says it’s using GPT-4 to garner the “most pertinent insights” from webpages and write summaries beneath Bing search results. You won’t see these summaries beneath every search result, but you can check which ones are AI-generated by clicking the little arrow next to the result’s URL. If the description is written by AI, it’ll say “AI-Generated Caption.”
Earlier this year, Google combined two AI teams into one group which is working on a new model to compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4. Its leader, Demis Hassabis, discussed the combo on Decoder:
And we’re already feeling, even a couple of months in, the benefits and the strengths of that with projects like Gemini that you may have heard of, which is our next-generation multimodal large models — very, very exciting work going on there, combining all the best ideas from across both world-class research groups. It’s pretty impressive to see.
Now, The Information cites two sources saying its launch is expected in Q1 of 2024, not this month as they were previously told. It also reports Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been spending “four to five days a week” with the developers.
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CNBC reports Airbnb bought the “stealth mode” Gameplanner.AI for almost $200 million, and notes its plans to use generative AI for trip planning help.
The article says Gameplanner.AI was founded in 2020 by former Siri co-founder Adam Cheyer, whose later work included co-founding Viv Labs, which Samsung bought to make Bixby.
In a sitdown with Verge EIC Nilay Patel on Decoder, the 44th president discussed Joe Biden’s recently-signed executive order about AI, why Obama disagrees with the idea that social networks are a “common carrier,” and which iPhone apps he uses the most, now that he’s no longer president and he can use an iPhone.
The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it’s available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.
Over on MKBHD’s The Studio, David Imel talked about the Leica M11-P. Or, more accurately, he used it to talk about Content Credentials, which the $9,000-plus camera attaches to photos as they’re taken so they can be verified through Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI).
It’s a good look at CAI and its potential benefits to the media using the first-ever camera to participate in an initiative intended to help onlookers identify real-world images in a sea of AI-generated ones.
Nilay, David, and Alex had a little aside on Friday’s Vergecast episode about how the combo of SEO and AI means Google thinks you can melt an egg. This morning, a listener showed what’s clearly the best way to experience this silly SEO flub.
I immediately tried it, and this was also my Nest Hub’s response to the question, “Can you melt an egg?”
Go try it before Google fixes it!
He says users will need a $16-a-month X Premium Plus subscription to access “Grok,” and that it will get real-time information from posts on X.
Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but left in 2018 over the company’s for-profit shift, and has called ChatGPT “WokeGPT.” He launched xAI earlier this year. Musk’s posts come a few days ahead of OpenAI’s first developer conference on Monday.
Bloomberg’s report on how artists are finding ways to fight back against AI scraping highlights how the process of excluding their content from OpenAI’s training datasets “feels like a charade” that would take months to even attempt.
The system asks that artists upload images they’d like excluded from future training to OpenAI, along with a description of each piece.
OpenAI says it’s collecting feedback to improve the experience amid the rise of new tools like Glaze and Nightshade, which are designed to disrupt AI image generators.
As the White House preps to announce a new executive order aimed at AI companies, Reuters reported that the G7 will agree on an international rulebook for AI responsibility.
Reuters says the 11-point voluntary agreement, which has no regulatory weight, is meant to encourage responsible AI development, including encouraging companies to report on progress and mitigate current and future risks.
There is just so much money flying in this colossal AI arms race.
• Microsoft has poured as much as $13 billion into OpenAI.
• Amazon recently reported a potentially $4 billion investment in the Google-backed Anthropic.
• Now The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will slide Anthropic a cool $2 billion over time on top of its previous investments in the company.
Crusoe Energy, a former crypto miner turned AI server landlord, reportedly raised $200 million to buy Nvidia’s H100 chips and will use the hot commodity as collateral. Bill Libby, CEO of Upper90, which provided the loan to Crusoe Energy, said Nvidia chips are a “new asset class.”
The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto reported in August on another company doing the same thing: CoreWeave, which also uses H100 chips as collateral to get debt to buy more H100 chips. An Ouroboros of AI chips, if you will.