Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis talked up AlphaFold 3 during Google I/O. This AI model uses generative AI capabilities to model how molecules of DNA, RNA, and proteins would look with a prompt from scientists. The idea is to make drug discovery easier and faster.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini 1.5 Pro will have a 2 million token context window (the amount of information an AI model can understand), up from the current 1 million tokens it reads.
As part of the deal with the private equity firm Permira, Squarespace agreed to become a private company again. The website-building platform went public in 2021, but CNBC reports Squarespace struggled to perform well in the stock market. CEO Anthony Casalena said it wasn’t “the most fun time to be a public tech company” on Decoder last year.
Moderators of the r/ChatGPT subreddit say OpenAI sent them a message telling them to remove the company’s logos from its user profiles. 404 Media reports the subreddit’s mods have stopped using the logo.
OpenAI is currently the defendant in several lawsuits, alleging it violated the copyright of publications and authors.
It’s expensive to sue OpenAI and Microsoft, and The New York Times knows it. In its first quarter 2024 financial results, the newspaper says costs for its copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI giants do not impact its operational performance.
