At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng each argued against letting a handful of labs gatekeep AI, while disagreeing on how open model weights should be. Hinton distinguished open-s...
Sundar Pichai announced that Google's standalone Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it Google's 14th product to reach that scale and putting it on par with ChatGPT. Google also cited 100 mill...
Brad Lightcap, who joined OpenAI in 2018 and served as CFO and then COO before moving to special projects, announced he is leaving the company to "start something new." His exit follows other senior departures, including...
River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek, just two months aft...
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto promoting Meta's vision of 'personal superintelligence,' expanding on ideas previously aired in a Wall Street Journal piece and earnings calls. A commentator argues the es...
AI lab Mirendil, founded by ex-Anthropic researchers, has signed a multi-year deal worth over $100 million with Google Cloud for TPU, Nvidia GPU, and managed training cluster capacity to pursue self-improving AI. The sta...
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to become CEO of Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation co-founded with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The startup aims to automate complete experimental loo...
Anthropic is assembling a "custom silicon team" to design its own AI chips, aiming to co-design hardware and models for faster, more efficient inference and training. The move follows reported talks with Samsung and come...
Anthropic has reportedly signed a $10 billion, six-year cloud compute agreement with Volta, an AI cloud startup founded earlier this year and part of Nvidia's Cloud Partner program. Volta will work with crypto-mining fir...
The Nvidia-spearheaded Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), formed roughly a week earlier and now over 120 companies strong, has launched a working group called the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) that is already circulati...
