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Huang and Zuckerberg Swap Jackets, Back Open-Source AI at SIGGRAPH
July 30, 2024 – On July 29th, at the 51st SIGGRAPH conference in Denver, USA, the founders and CEOs of NVIDIA and Meta, Jen-Hsun Huang and Mark Zuckerberg respectively, engaged in an intriguing fireside chat discussing the future of artificial intelligence and simulation. The conversation began conventionally, with Huang enthusiastically highlighting the capabilities of NVIDIA’s…
Apple Leveraged Google Hardware for Apple Intelligence Model Training
July 30, 2024 – Apple revealed in a technical paper released on Monday that the two artificial intelligence models supporting its AI system, Apple Intelligence, underwent pre-training on cloud chips designed by Google. The paper, titled “Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models,” provides an in-depth exploration of the model’s construction process and data sources. A section…
MAIA System Reveals AI’s Inner Mechanisms, Boosting Safety Checks
July 25, 2024 – Researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a system called “MAIA,” a multimodal automated interpretability agent that utilizes visual language models to automatically carry out various neural network interpretability tasks. MAIA, which stands for Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent, leverages…
Meta’s Bold Move: Patent Application Signals Intent to Replicate Apple’s Vision Pro EyeSight Feature
July 23, 2024 – In a surprising move, Meta has filed a patent application revealing its intention to integrate a version of Apple’s controversial “EyeSight” feature from the Vision Pro into its own line of virtual reality headsets. This announcement by Meta has garnered significant attention within the tech community, particularly given the mixed reception…
Musk Announces the Launch of the “World’s Largest AI Training Cluster” Powered by 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs
July 23, 2024 – Elon Musk has unveiled a major milestone in the realm of artificial intelligence with the commencement of training operations on the Memphis Supercluster, a feat achieved at precisely 4:20 AM local time. Acknowledging the pivotal contributions of the xAI team, X team, NVIDIA, and their supporting partners, Musk expressed his gratitude…
Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Hits a Snag? Meta Reportedly Slashes Investments in Reality Labs
July 22, 2024 – According to a report by The Information, Meta, the company owned by Mark Zuckerberg, is significantly reducing its investment in the metaverse project. The report cites a former manager from Reality Labs, the department responsible for VR, AR, and the metaverse at Meta, who revealed that the hardware team has been…
Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and 11 Other Companies Form Alliance to Bolster AI Security
July 19, 2024 – At the Aspen Security Forum held yesterday, 14 leading companies in the AI field, including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, NVIDIA, and Intel, announced the formation of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI). This alliance is aimed at enhancing the security of artificial intelligence systems. Hosted by the OASIS global standards body,…
OpenAI Aims for $7 Trillion Chip Empire, Partners with Broadcom on New AI Chip Development
July 19, 2024 – According to a report by The Information today, OpenAI has been in contact with multiple chip designers, including Broadcom, to jointly explore the development of a new AI chip. The company’s venture into chip manufacturing aims to not only efficiently integrate hardware and software, aspiring to become the “Apple of AI,”…
Meta Holds Off on EU Release of Multimodal AI Model Due to Regulatory Constraints
July 18, 2024 – According to a report by Axios, Meta has announced in a statement that they are set to unleash a multimodal Llama model; however, due to the uncertainty of the regulatory environment, the model will not be released in the European Union. Meta clarified that this decision implies that even if the…
UK Regulator Probes Microsoft’s Transactions with Inflection AI
July 17, 2024 – The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced on July 16th that it is investigating Microsoft’s hiring of several former employees of Inflection AI and the arrangements made with the company. The regulatory body has expressed concerns that these actions could potentially lead to a “substantial lessening of competition.” In its…