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What Happened at the Big Machine Learning Confab

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 2, 2023 7:20am PDT

Thousands of machine learning researchers, founders and venture capitalists flooded the sandy beaches of Oahu last week for the International Conference on Machine Learning. Notable attendees included John Schulman, an OpenAI co-founder and head of its reinforcement learning team; OpenAI researcher Noam Brown, known for creating the first AI to... Thousands of machine learning researchers, founders and venture capitalists flooded the sandy...

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The Bear Case Against Large-Language Model Developers

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 1, 2023 7:00am PDT · 3 comments

When Axios on Monday reported on Google’s plan to revamp Assistant—its voice assistant that competes with Apple’s Siri—with technology based on large language models, it got us thinking about a trillion-dollar question that has consumed the tech industry for months. Which software companies will benefit most from the LLM boom: upstart LLM... When Axios on Monday reported on Google’s plan to revamp Assistant—its voice assistant that...

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The AWS Empire Strikes Back; A Week of LLM Jailbreaks

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 31, 2023 7:00am PDT

Amazon Web Services, the king of renting cloud servers, is facing an unusually large amount of pressure. Its growth and enviable profit margins have been dropping, Microsoft and Google have moved faster—or opened their wallets—to capture more business from artificial intelligence developers (TBD on whether it will amount to much), and Nvidia is... Amazon Web Services, the king of renting cloud servers, is facing an unusually large amount of...

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AI Agenda: The Mysterious AI Data-Center Startup Hiring From AWS, Azure, Meta

By Anissa Gardizy · Jul 27, 2023 7:00am PDT · 1 comment

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AI Agenda: The Mysterious AI Data-Center Startup Hiring From AWS, Azure, Meta

By Anissa Gardizy · Jul 27, 2023 7:00am PDT · 1 comment

Save the Date: Next Thursday, Aug. 3, join Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, an OpenAI rival valued at $2 billion, and Edo Liberty, founder and CEO of Pinecone, one of the hottest young AI infrastructure startups, for a live audio chat with subscribers. The CEOs will talk to AI Agenda author Stephanie Palazzolo and take your questions... Save the Date: Next Thursday, Aug. 3, join Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, an OpenAI...

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Capitol Hill Stumps Anthropic on its Google Relationship

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 26, 2023 7:15am PDT · 1 comment

Capitol Hill may not have the best reputation when it comes to being tech-savvy. One may recall Senator Orrin Hatch’s infamous question to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about how Facebook stays free (which a smirking Zuckerberg responded to with, “Senator, we run ads”).But it was a different story during yesterday’s Senate hearing on artificial... Capitol Hill may not have the best reputation when it comes to being tech-savvy. One may recall ...

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Small Devices Could Soon Handle Large Language Models

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 25, 2023 7:05am PDT · 1 comment

AI models that once took millions of dollars per month to run could soon fit into the three-by-five-inch phone in your pocket.That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but recent technological advancements have brought edge AI—a method to run AI models on devices—back into the limelight. Engineers from Carnegie Mellon University, University of... AI models that once took millions of dollars per month to run could soon fit into the...

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Pressure Grows on OpenAI to Respond to Meta’s Challenge

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 24, 2023 10:24am PDT · 6 comments

Welcome to AI Agenda, The Information’s new newsletter that takes you inside the fast-paced world of artificial intelligence.Rapid advancements in the field have prompted companies and governments to grapple with how emerging technology such as ChatGPT and AI-generated video will shape our lives. Through it all, The Information has brought you... Welcome to AI Agenda, The Information’s new newsletter that takes you inside the fast-paced world...