The real cost of firing and rehiring Sam Altman for OpenAI was that Microsoft decided it needed to become less dependent on those flakes ASAP.
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NVIDIA DGX Powers OpenAI’s GPT-4o Launch
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Congratulations to the @openai team on the launch of GPT-4o! We’re proud that #NVIDIADGX contributed to this next era of #AI innovation. https://
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Confusion about Gemini Advanced replacing Gemini Ultra subscription
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I'm really confused by the Gemini Advanced news. I think previously subscribing was the only way a person could access Gemini Ultra. But now "Advanced" is being powered by Gemini 1.5 Pro. Ultra is gone?
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Anthropic EU availability defended despite limitations
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(In Anthropic's defense, at least people in the EU can use it now.)
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AI Companies Race: OpenAI GPT-4o vs Google Gemini Flash
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OpenAI: Behold GPT – 4o, it's fast and it's free Google: But wait, we got Gemini Flash Anthropic: Umm… we're updating our ToS
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Google dilutes message speaking to too many audiences
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Google quieres hablarle a tanta gente y a tantos públicos diferentes que al final el mensaje se diluye. Hay tecnología muy buena, pero 2 horas colega… ?
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Google Introduces Project Astra Universal AI Agent at IO
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For a long time, we’ve been working towards a universal AI agent that can be truly helpful in everyday life. Today at #GoogleIO we showed off our latest progress towards this: Project Astra. Here’s a video of our prototype, captured in real time. pic.twitter.com/TSGDJZVslg
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 14 mai 2024For a long time, we’ve been working towards a universal AI agent that can be truly helpful in everyday life. Today at #GoogleIO we showed off our latest progress towards this: Project Astra. Here’s a video of our prototype, captured in real time.
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Google Announces Gemini 1.5 Flash with Long Context Capabilities
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Making great progress on the Gemini Era. At #GoogleIO we shared 2M long context breakthrough with 1.5 Pro and announced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter-weight multimodal model with long context designed to be fast and cost-efficient to serve at scale. More: https://t.co/KSAHWIbjZG pic.twitter.com/t5wlOBadIB
— Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) 14 mai 2024Making great progress on the Gemini Era. At #GoogleIO we shared 2M long context breakthrough with 1.5 Pro and announced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter-weight multimodal model with long context designed to be fast and cost-efficient to serve at scale. More: https://
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google-gemini-update-flash-ai-assistant-io-2024/
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Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 1.5 Flash and Project Astra
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We think of @GoogleDeepMind as the engine room of @Google in the AI era. Thrilled to share our vision at #GoogleIO incl the latest Gemini model 1.5 Flash, Project Astra our universal AI agent effort, our new gen video model Veo, Imagen 3 & lots more! https://
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Google I/O Summary: Gemini repetitive, only Gemini 1.5 interesting
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If you want a summary of Google I/O: – It's Gemini I/O, all they talk about is that. With demos and features that are repetitive and 90% of which will be available in several months for some (i.e., maybe never, we know Google). – The only interesting thing is Gemini 1.5