Contrast this with 2017, when Brockman said OpenAI spent around $30 million. Wild.
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OpenAI Plans to Spend $50 Billion on Compute This Year
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Huge number reveal from OpenAI's Greg Brockman in court this am: OpenAI expects to spend $50 billion on compute this year. This gives a sense for how expensive it is *just to provide the computing power* for one of the world's most powerful AI companies.
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Legislation Targets Chatbot Makers Amid Lawsuits Over Child Harms
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Going to be interesting to see where this legislation goes. The timing makes sense: about 30 lawsuits have been filed against chatbot makers, most against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, many alleging harms to children, and more suits are expected soon.
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Anthropic Mythos AI Model Breached by Unauthorized Users
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Big scoop from me: Anthropic's Mythos AI model — the cybersecurity model it says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks — is being accessed by unauthorized users. Gift link!
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Sneakers Company Pivots to AI Infrastructure Strategy
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Ah yes, the well-known sneakers-to-AI infra pivot.
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Journalist Frustrated by Changes at Associated Press
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Why Humanoid Robots Struggle With Simple Tasks
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this is a *really* good, very accessible piece by @johnpavlus for @QuantaMagazine about why it's so incredibly hard to make humanoid robots work well and generalize tasks. Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff? quantamagazine.org/why-do-hu… via @QuantaMagazine
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Cursor AI coding startup seeks $50 billion valuation funding
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👀 scoop w/ @RebeccaTorrenc5 and @nmasc_ 👀 Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in talks with investors for a funding round that would value the startup at about $50 billion bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Cursor seeks funding at $50 billion valuation
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🍨🍨🍨 Natasha Mascarenhas (@nmasc_) Scoop on the terminal w/ @rachelmetz + @RebeccaTorrenc5: Cursor having discussions with investors for funding at $50 billion valuation — https://nitter.net/nmasc_/status/2031887227559821319#m
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OpenAI’s Head of Industrial Compute Secures Trillions in AI Resources
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Check out this interesting piece from @dinabass and @shiringhaffary about how OpenAI’s new head of industrial compute is securing allllll that compute for ChatGPT ⬇️ Dina Bass (@dinabass) OpenAI's @sk7037 serves as Head of Industrial Compute, which means he gets to help figure out how to line up trillions of $ in AI compute. @shiringhaffary & I spoke with him about his role, Nvidia, AWS, memory shortages & more bloomberg.com/news/articles/… — https://nitter.net/dinabass/status/2031574410537349572#m
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