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OpenAI Co-founder John Schulman Joins Mira Murati's New AI Venture
John Schulman, an OpenAI co-founder who briefly joined Anthropic, is reportedly joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's secretive new startup. Murati, who left OpenAI in September, has also recruited other former OpenAI...
Amazon Plans $100 Billion AI Investment in 2025 as Big Tech Accelerates Spending
Amazon has announced plans to spend over $100 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, with the vast majority dedicated to AI capabilities for its AWS cloud division. This represents a significant increase from Amazon's...
Tesla's Dojo and Cortex: Elon Musk's Custom AI Supercomputers for Self-Driving Cars
Tesla is developing custom supercomputers Dojo and Cortex to train AI models for its Full Self-Driving technology and humanoid robots. The company aims to reduce dependency on Nvidia chips by creating its own D1 chips, w...
Key ChatGPT Architect John Schulman Departs Anthropic After Brief Five-Month Tenure
John Schulman, an OpenAI co-founder and significant contributor to ChatGPT, has left AI safety-focused company Anthropic after only five months. Schulman had joined Anthropic from OpenAI in August 2023, citing a desire t...
Google Plans to Transform Search into AI Research Assistant
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced plans to significantly evolve Google Search in 2025, moving it from a link-based system to an AI assistant that browses the internet on users' behalf. The company intends to integra...
Alphabet Increases AI Investment to $75 Billion Despite DeepSeek's Efficient Models
Despite Chinese AI startup DeepSeek making waves with its cost-efficient models, Alphabet is significantly increasing its AI investments to $75 billion this year, a 42% increase. Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged Dee...
OpenAI Trademark Filing Reveals Plans for Humanoid Robots and AI Hardware
OpenAI has filed a new trademark application with the USPTO that hints at ambitious future product lines including AI-powered hardware and humanoid robots. The filing mentions headphones, smart glasses, jewelry, humanoid...
Altman Admits OpenAI Falling Behind, Considers Open-Sourcing Older Models
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that Chinese competitor DeepSeek has reduced OpenAI's lead in AI and admitted that OpenAI has been "on the wrong side of history" regarding open source. Altman suggeste...
VC Midha: DeepSeek's Efficiency Won't Slow AI's GPU Demand
Andreessen Horowitz partner and Mistral board member Anjney Midha believes that despite DeepSeek's impressive R1 model demonstrating efficiency gains, AI companies will continue investing heavily in GPU infrastructure. H...
DeepSeek's Reasoning Model Disrupts AI Industry and Raises International Concerns
DeepSeek's release of its R1 reasoning model has created significant industry disruption, displacing ChatGPT as the App Store's top app and prompting reactions from both tech giants and the U.S. government. The Chinese A...