In a recent social media post, Zak Kukoff, a prominent investor and former Principal at General Catalyst, has taken a swipe at Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, over remarks regarding OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Kukoff’s remark came in response to a statement made by Nadella, which Kukoff described as “baller.” In a screenshot shared on X, Kukoff highlighted … Read more
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
In recent weeks, some of the best-known players in artificial intelligence have intensified their efforts to gain dominance in the AI space. Anthropic, a startup backed by Google and Amazon, launched Claude 3 Opus. Google launched Gemini, but is back to the drawing board after facing complaints. Meta is spending billions to create AGI, or … Read more
Open AI CEO Sam Altman has given his first reaction to Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the artificial intelligence startup. Altman, who was part of OpenAI’s founding team, said he texted the Tesla CEO when he heard about Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI. Journalist Kara Swisher had asked Altman what he had texted Musk upon knowing about … Read more
Elon Musk, the CEO of xAI, announced on Monday the open-sourcing of the artificial intelligence startup’s ChatGPT rival, “Grok,” just days after filing a lawsuit against OpenAI, a company he co-founded, for veering away from its original non-profit mission. Musk has been a vocal critic of large technology companies using AI for profit, expressing concerns … Read more
At the same time, big tech’s sales of AI software remain small. In the past year AI has accounted for only about a fifth of the growth in revenues at Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-computing division, and related services. Alphabet and Amazon do not reveal their AI-related sales, but analysts suspect they are lower than those of … Read more
GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) will transform the workplace. The International Monetary Fund reckons that AI tools, which includes ones that produce text or images from written prompts, will eventually affect 40% of jobs. Goldman Sachs, a bank, says that the technology could replace 300m jobs worldwide. Sceptics say those estimates exaggerate. But some industries seem … Read more
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Thursday over its relationship with the tech giant Microsoft. A former board member of the OpenAI, Elon Musk has alleged that the artificial intelligence company compromised from its original mission to build AI systems for public welfare and transformed into a profit maximization entity under Microsoft. … Read more
There are kinder ways to put it. In its instructions to users, OpenAI warns that ChatGPT “can make mistakes”. Anthropic, an American AI company, says that its LLM Claude “may display incorrect or harmful information”; Google’s Gemini warns users to “double-check its responses”. The throughline is this: no matter how fluent and confident AI-generated text … Read more
OpenAI’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon has hit back at Elon Musk’s claims that the San Francisco-based startup has strayed from its original goal of a public, open-source AI and has become a de facto subsidiary of Microsoft. While categorically denying Musk’s claims about OpenAI, Kwon said the billionaire “regrets not being involved with the … Read more