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Google’s Strange Decision to Not Undercut OpenAI and Microsoft; OpenAI’s Secret Agents

By Kalley Huang · Feb 8, 2024 7:15am PST · 1 comment
I’m Kalley, a reporter covering Meta Platforms and social media. I’m now regularly contributing to AI Agenda.Google this morning launched Gemini Ultra, the long-awaited flagship version of its most advanced large language model. It also renamed its ChatGPT rival to Gemini from Bard, which seemed like a logical move. These announcements had... I’m Kalley, a reporter covering Meta Platforms and social media. I’m now regularly contributing...
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OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati · Feb 7, 2024 1:50pm PST · 1 comment
OpenAI’s first major product, ChatGPT, proved so popular that it sparked a generation of wannabes. But as rivals like Google catch up, OpenAI is hustling to release a product that could prove almost as revolutionary. OpenAI is developing a form of agent software to automate complex tasks by effectively taking over a customer’s... OpenAI’s first major product, ChatGPT, proved so popular that it sparked a generation of...
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One Class of AI Startups That Can Thrive Without Funding: Porn Chatbots

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Feb 7, 2024 7:00am PST
Sex sells, and sex created by artificial intelligence is no exception.While many generative AI startups have struggled to manage the exploding costs of AI and retain their customers, AI-powered romantic chatbots haven’t had much trouble attracting and keeping their users. Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, a thriving ecosystem has... Sex sells, and sex created by artificial intelligence is no exception.While many generative AI...
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Nvidia Engineer’s Message to Google AI Researchers: Leave Your Company

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 21, 2023 7:00am PDT · 7 comments
Jacopo Pantaleoni joined Nvidia in 2001 when the company had less than 500 employees. He worked on what was then a small research project to improve Nvidia’s graphics processing units so they could better render images on computers and gaming consoles.More than two decades later, Nvidia has more than 26,000 employees and its GPUs are at the... Jacopo Pantaleoni joined Nvidia in 2001 when the company had less than 500 employees. He worked...
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Microsoft and OpenAI Working on ChatGPT-Powered Bing in Challenge to Google

By Aaron Holmes · Jan 3, 2023 4:39pm PST · 7 comments
Microsoft could soon get a return on its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, which gives humanlike text answers to questions. Microsoft is preparing to launch a version of its Bing search engine that uses the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT to answer some search queries rather than just showing a list of... Microsoft could soon get a return on its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, creator of the ChatGPT...
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The Seven-Year Itch: How Apple’s Marriage to Siri Turned Sour

By Aaron Tilley and Kevin McLaughlin · Mar 14, 2018 7:02am PDT · 5 comments
Apple’s 2011 “Let’s talk iPhone” event at its Cupertino headquarters was a pivotal moment for the company. It was the first big showcase for new CEO Tim Cook as he tried to fill the shoes of the legendary but ailing Steve Jobs. Yet the event threatened to disappoint because the company’s new iPhone, the 4s, was... Apple’s 2011 “Let’s talk iPhone” event at its Cupertino headquarters was...