Even Microsoft needs some extra GPUs for its AI tools, and it’s turning to Oracle to get them as part of a multi-year deal, as reported by The Register.
[The Register]


Even Microsoft needs some extra GPUs for its AI tools, and it’s turning to Oracle to get them as part of a multi-year deal, as reported by The Register.
[The Register]
A fitting use of transformer models: using AI to Michael Bay-ify any movie scene! But as the fine users of Metafilter note, you can give anything a dose of Old Bay. The possibilities are endless and filled with robot arms.

The former president joined me on Decoder to discuss AI regulation, the First Amendment, and of course, what apps he has on his homescreen.
After acquiring FakeSpot earlier this year, Mozilla is putting its product review smarts to work in a new AI chatbot that’s designed to answer your questions about products you’re considering buying. Fakespot Chat is Mozilla’s first LLM, and can respond to questions on a product’s “quality, customer feedback, and return policy.” Click here to try it yourself.
Reuters has the story. Seems like a wise idea ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Meta revealed the tools in October.
Here at DevDay, I’ve been watching demos of OpenAI employees building custom GPT agents. It’s impressively simple to build one with zero coding knowledge. I watched one GPT be built in maybe three minutes and it just worked.
The fact that these are made using entirely natural language means, I think, that people will make a lot of them. OpenAI wants that so it can become the first true AI platform, though it still needs to figure out how to transparently compensate creators.
I’m here at OpenAI’s DevDay, where the press just had a roundtable Q&A with CEO Sam Altman and CTO Mira Murati. When asked how the company is going to calculate its payouts to creators for the use of their custom GPTs through its store, Altman was clear that all that is still being figured out:
“We’re going to start with just sharing a part of the [ChatGPT] subscription revenue overall. There will be a tier based off how many active users you have, plus some category bonuses. I expect that to evolve a lot.”