Financial Times joins forces with OpenAI to enhance AI capabilities for news and content

Financial Times joins forces with OpenAI to enhance AI capabilities for news and content

(Reuters) – The Financial Times had signed a licensing agreement with OpenAI to train artificial intelligence (AI) models on its attributed content, the newspaper said on Monday, in the latest media tie-up for the Microsoft-backed startup. The agreement will enhance OpenAI’s generative AI chatbot ChatGPT with attributed FT content, and the firms will collaborate on … Read more

Large language models are getting bigger and better

Large language models are getting bigger and better

That hunger for the new has only accelerated. In March Anthropic launched Claude 3, which bested the previous top models from OpenAI and Google on various leaderboards. On April 9th OpenAI reclaimed the crown (on some measures) by tweaking its model. On April 18th Meta released Llama 3, which early results suggest is the most … Read more

Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?

Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has caused a creative explosion of new writing, music, images and video. The internet is alive with AI-made content, while markets fizz with AI-inspired investment. OpenAI, which makes perhaps the most advanced generative-AI models, is valued at nearly $90bn; Microsoft, its partner, has become the world’s most valuable company, with a … Read more

AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress

AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress

The aim of the session, organised by the Royal Society in partnership with Humane Intelligence, an American non-profit, was to break those guardrails. Some results were merely daft: one participant got the chatbot to claim ducks could be used as indicators of air quality (apparently, they readily absorb lead). Another prompted it to claim health … Read more

India takes the local track in its AI race

India takes the local track in its AI race

AI’s integration into the enterprise sector in India has matured significantly, becoming a cornerstone for businesses seeking to enhance product efficiency, streamline supply chains, and reduce time-to-market. Recent research underscores the growing adoption of AI within the Indian enterprise landscape. A study conducted by Morning Consult, commissioned by IBM, found that approximately 59% of enterprise-scale … Read more

Mint Primer: Is GPT-5 on the cards? What might it look like?

Mint Primer: Is GPT-5 on the cards? What might it look like?

Maintaining that GPT-4 “kind of sucks”, Open AI CEO Sam Altman said recently his company will release an “amazing new model” this year. This has sparked speculation that OpenAI may release GPT-5 sometime between June and August this year. Why is this a big deal? What triggered the excitement? OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, inadvertently … Read more

Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy

Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy

Trustbusters have big tech in their sights. On March 25th the European Commission opened a probe into Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and Meta (which is Facebook’s). Regulators in Brussels think the measures which the American technology behemoths have put in place to comply with the Digital Markets Act, a sweeping new law meant to … Read more

Elon Musk announces launch of Grok-1.5 AI chatbot on X next week. How will it change social media?

Elon Musk announces launch of Grok-1.5 AI chatbot on X next week. How will it change social media?

Elon Musk on Friday announced that his artificial intelligence startup xAI will launch the latest version of its Grok-1.5 chatbot for the social media platform X. The enhanced version of Grok AI chatbot will be available for X users from next week and should exceed current AI technology in all metrics, Elon Musk said. The … Read more

Why AI needs to learn new languages

Why AI needs to learn new languages

OpenAI has not revealed much about how ChatGPT-4 was built. But a look at its predecessor, ChatGPT-3, is suggestive. Large language models (LLMs) are trained on text scraped from the internet, on which English is the lingua franca. Around 93% of ChatGPT-3’s training data was in English. In Common Crawl, just one of the datasets … Read more

The bosses of OpenAI and Microsoft talk to The Economist

The bosses of OpenAI and Microsoft talk to The Economist

One reason the world’s corporate elite jet off to Davos each year is to check in on important relationships, be they with critical suppliers or big-spending clients. This year many are wondering about their relationships with Microsoft and OpenAI , the startup behind ChatGPT. The companies are the world’s most prominent purveyors of artificial intelligence … Read more