Noam Shazeer, a former engineer on Google Brain, and the CEO of Character.ai, set renewed interest in generative AI. His company amassed nearly $200 million for user-conversation with "characters" with multi-faceted personalities. Microsoft invested billions in OpenAI and Google responded with chatbot, Bard. Find out how his work sparked the chatbot revolution and the risks of unintended consequences.
Microsoft's groundbreaking AI chip Athena could revolutionize OpenAI's language models, saving up to $700,000 per day in processing costs. Microsoft began this project in 2019, now employing more than 300, working to make it available to internal users as soon as 2021. Latitude, an AI dungeon game using OpenAI's language model, is already paying $200,000 a month for AWS servers. Microsoft is looking to improve budgeting for AI projects and reduce operations costs for AI models.
OpenAI, a San Francisco-based research laboratory that specializes in artificial intelligence, has been given a deadline of April 30th to modify their AI ChatGPT so it resumes operations in Italy. ChatGPT caught public attention for being able to generate essays, songs and other content. Italy's Data Protection Authority will reopen the platform if the OpenAI team provides a risk reduction and age confirmation method for users. Data collection and storage procedures are also under review.
. Find out how venture capitalists are enticed by the latest Y Combinator-backed startups in the AI and developer tools space, which secured different rounds of investments with post-money values up to $30 million. Investor Elad Gil and Google's Gradient Ventures are leading the charge to fuel sector-leading early stage companies.
Keep your accounts safe from malicious cybercriminals with Check Point Software's first quarter 2021 report on the most frequently imitated brands in phishing campaigns. Walmart topped the list with 16% of attempts made. Also, find out the other industry giants like Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Raiffeisen that made it to the list. Learn how to secure your accounts from such attacks.
Explore the evolution of tech policy from Obama's optimism to Harris's vision at the Democratic National Convention. What's next for Democrats in tech?