Weekly AI News Summary (2024-03-22)
Weekly AI News Summary (2024-03-22)

Weekly AI News Summary (2024-03-22)

Apple’s AI ambitions could include Google or OpenAI

Apple is reportedly actively negotiating with Google to bring Gemini's generative AI technology to iOS. The company is aiming to release AI features to customers later this year.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

Nvidia announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models during its developer's conference on Monday. The new Blackwell AI graphics processors are expected to ship later this year.

Applied Intuition Hits $6B Valuation After Raising $250M For Generative AI

Applied Intuition, a leader in autonomous vehicle software, raised $250 million in Series E funding. This values the company at $6 billion, a 67% increase from its previous valuation.

Open Release Of Grok-1

xAI has released the weights and architecture of its 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1.

Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet

Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku is its fastest and most cost-effective AI model. It features advanced vision capabilities and excels in benchmarks. Claude 3 Haiku is designed for enterprises, with a focus on speed and affordability.

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman will run Microsoft’s new consumer AI unit

Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to run a new consumer AI unit called Microsoft AI. Suleyman is one of Google DeepMind's cofounders and chief executive of AI startup Inflection. Microsoft AI will combine consumer-facing products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge into one team.

GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

OpenAI is expected to release a major AI model, possibly GPT-5, sometime in mid-2024, likely during the summer. The new model will likely be a multimodel large language model with similar capabilities to GPT-4, but better.

Stable Diffusion maker leaves Stability AI

Stability AI's research scientist Robin Rombach, crucial to developing the Stable Diffusion model, is leaving the company, marking a significant departure amidst a year of technical team changes.

Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form

Nvidia's Project GR00T aims to create a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots to enable robots to learn skills and solve various tasks on the fly.

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