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The Year of ChatGPT and Living Generatively
In November last year, OpenAI launched a “low key research preview” called ChatGPT. What happened next transformed the tech industry—and perhaps humanity’s future.
Benchmark, the storied venture firm, sees “traps” in today’s AI funding frenzy: “Don’t be Microsoft”
Yesterday in Helsinki, this editor interviewed four of the six general partners at Benchmark, the nearly 30-year-old, Silicon Valley firm that’s known for some notable bets (Uber, Dropbox), paying each general partner exactly the same way, and for continuing to raise similar-size funds over its many years rather than balloon in size. We were speaking […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Benchmark, the storied venture firm, sees ‘traps’ in today’s AI funding frenzy: ‘Don’t be Microsoft’
Yesterday in Helsinki, this editor interviewed four of the six general partners at Benchmark, the nearly 30-year-old Silicon Valley firm that’s known for some notable bets (Uber, Dropbox), paying each general partner exactly the same way, and for continuing to raise similar-size funds over its many years rather than balloon in size. We were speaking […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Benchmark, the storied venture firm, sees the AI race as still wide open
Yesterday in Helsinki, this editor interviewed four of the six general partners at Benchmark, the nearly 30-year-old Silicon Valley firm that’s known for some notable bets (Uber, Dropbox), paying each general partner exactly the same way, and for continuing to raise similar-size funds over its many years rather than balloon in size. We were speaking […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Anduril’s New Drone Killer Is Locked on to AI-Powered Warfare
Autonomous drones are rapidly changing combat. Anduril’s new one aims to gain an edge with jet power and AI.
These Clues Hint at the True Nature of OpenAI’s Shadowy Q* Project
Reports of a mysterious breakthrough called Q* at OpenAI sparked anxious rumors. AI experts say it’s probably just a conventional attempt to make ChatGPT a little smarter.
2D material reshapes 3D electronics for AI hardware
Researchers demonstrated monolithic 3D integration of layered 2D material into novel processing hardware for artificial intelligence computing. The new approach provides a material-level solution for fully integrating many functions into a single, small electronic chip -- and paves the way for advanced AI computing.
Smart microgrids can restore power more efficiently and reliably in an outage
A new AI model that optimizes the use of renewables and other energy sources outperforms traditional power restoration techniques for islanded microgrids, a new paper shows.
Deloitte’s Tech Predictions for 2024: Generative AI Continues to Shape Chip Market
Be cautious of the generative AI bubble potentially bursting, Deloitte said. Plus, cloud sovereignty may be hot in 2024.
Deloitte’s Tech Predictions for 2024: Generative AI Will Continue to Shape Chips Market
Be cautious of the generative AI bubble potentially bursting, Deloitte said. Plus, cloud sovereignty may be hot in 2024.
On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly $30M in revenue
It’s officially been one year since ChatGPT launched, taking the world by storm as the research preview turned into an everyday tool that brought AI chatbot technology to mainstream users. A large part of that effort was driven by the release of the ChatGPT mobile app, whose May 2023 launch on iOS put the chatbot […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI as CEO With New Board
According to OpenAI’s blog post, a “non-voting observer for Microsoft” will join OpenAI’s board.
ChatGPT 1-Year Anniversary: How Generative AI Has Evolved
The safety risks of generative AI and its potential uses are mainstream now in ways they weren’t in November 2022.
OpenAI chaos not about AI safety, says Microsoft boss
Microsoft's president says the sacking of OpenAI boss Sam Altman was not because of AI safety worries.
Revolutionize The Way You Edit Photos With Luminar Neo, on Sale For $149.97
As an extended Cyber Monday deal, use the power of AI to seamlessly edit photos with a user-friendly interface you can enjoy for life — plus, helpful add-ons.
Sam Altman Officially Returns to OpenAI—With a New Board Seat for Microsoft
The CEO’s memo to staff announces a nonvoting seat for Microsoft but leaves questions about the future of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
New AI Security Guidelines Published by NCSC, CISA & More International Agencies
The Guidelines for Secure AI System Development have been drawn up to help developers ensure security is baked into the heart of new artificial intelligence models.
What does the future hold for generative AI?
Rodney Brooks, co-founder of iRobot, kicks off an MIT symposium on the promise and potential pitfalls of increasingly powerful AI tools like ChatGPT.
AWS re:Invent: Text and Image Generative AI Embeddings Come to Amazon Titan
During the AWS re:Invent generative AI keynote, Amazon announced Bedrock support for Claude 2.1 and Llama 2 70B and more.
Artificial intelligence paves way for new medicines
Researchers have developed an AI model that can predict where a drug molecule can be chemically altered.
