5 h. ago In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave

In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, according to Reuters, which cites people close to the deal. The deal involves OpenAI receiving $350 million worth of equity in CoreWeave, the sources told Reuters. The private placement is said to be separate from […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 h. ago Insight VC explains the biggest mistake that keeps founders from raising a big round

Given how much money VCs are pouring into AI startups these days, it may seem like VCs have decided: If it’s not AI, they won’t write a big check. But that’s not exactly what’s happening. Dealmaking at the moment is more nuanced, said VC Insight Partners managing director Ryan Hinkle during a recent Equity podcast. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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12 h. ago Woke OpenAI's Sam Altman Reverts to Leftist Form, Ditches Trump to Host San Francisco Fundraiser for Democrat Sen. Mark Warner

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, is among the list of people set to host a fundraiser for Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), who has voted against most of President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees. The post Woke OpenAI’s Sam Altman Reverts to Leftist Form, Ditches Trump to Host San Francisco Fundraiser for Democrat Sen. Mark Warner appeared first on Breitbart.

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12 h. ago Microsoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for Copilot

Microsoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot platform, according to a new job listing. The listing, published this week, seeks a senior software engineer based in Beijing specializing in 3D rendering engines, particularly engines typically used to build web browser-based video games (Babylon.js, three.js, and Unity). “Are you […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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13 h. ago Becoming Bill Gates: A new memoir retraces the road to Microsoft

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55 h. ago Week in Review: OpenAI could charge $20K a month for an AI agent

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at OpenAI potentially charging $20,000 a month for a specialized AI agent, the unexpected return of early-internet darling Digg, a company genetically engineering mice to have mammoth-like fur, and more! Let’s do this. OpenAI could charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI “agents.” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 d. ago Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 d. ago Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Targets 'Hundreds of Millions' of Small Businesses with Agentic AI Rollout

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is investing heavily in AI technology as it attempts to catch up to industry players like OpenAI. Now, the social media giant hopes that "hundreds of millions" of small businesses will embrace its agentic AI to reach new customers. The post Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Targets ‘Hundreds of Millions’ of Small Businesses with Agentic AI Rollout appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 d. ago Russian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results

Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 d. ago Russian propaganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results

Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 d. ago Russian propaganda is reportedly influencing AI chatbot results

Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 d. ago ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases

OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). While it took ChatGPT nine months to grow from 100 million weekly active users in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, it’s now taken […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 d. ago Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI

On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents. Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) API that can turn any PDF into a text file to make it easier for AI models to ingest. LLMs that underpin popular GenAI tools, like OpenAI’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 d. ago When outplayed, AI models resort to cheating to win chess matches

A team of AI researchers at Palisade Research has found that several leading AI models will resort to cheating at chess to win when playing against a superior opponent. They have published a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing experiments they conducted with several well-known AI models playing against an open-source chess engine.

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4 d. ago Russia Calls President Macron Napoleon AND Hitler in Anger at Plan to Keep Supporting Ukraine

Kremlin poured scorn on the French Prez after his speech, accusing of everything from duplicity, to nuclear sabre-rattling, to bad manners. The post Russia Calls President Macron Napoleon AND Hitler in Anger at Plan to Keep Supporting Ukraine appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 d. ago Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation

As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in fulfilling that effort is announcing a significant round of funding to expand. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 d. ago A year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning tool

Late last March, OpenAI announced a “small-scale preview” of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the company claimed could clone a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of speech. Roughly a year later, the tool remains in preview, and OpenAI has given no indication as to when it might launch — or whether it’ll launch […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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5 d. ago OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’

OpenAI may be planning to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI “agents,” according to The Information. The publication reports that OpenAI intends to launch several “agent” products tailored for different applications, including sorting and ranking sales leads and software engineering. One, a “high-income knowledge worker” agent, will reportedly be priced at $2,000 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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5 d. ago UK watchdog drops competition review of Microsoft's OpenAI deal

Britain's competition watchdog said Wednesday it has dropped its review of Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, saying it's satisfied that the deal doesn't need a closer investigation under the country's merger rules.

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5 d. ago Ahead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 million

CoreWeave’s initial S-1 document for its upcoming IPO is full of surprises. Backed by Nvidia, CoreWeave runs an AI-specific cloud service from its network of 32 data centers that together have more than 250,000 Nvidia GPUs as of the end of 2024, according to the company. Since then, it has also added a number of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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