Microsoft just announced the hiring of DeepMind co-founder (and Inflection AI CEO) Mustafa Suleyman. He will lead a new division called 'Microsoft AI' — focused on advancing consumer AI. Co-founder Karen Simonyan and several others from Inflection will be joining him.
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DeepMind Co-founder Leads Microsoft AI Division, Industry Updates
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The co-founder of DeepMind just joined Microsoft as CEO of a brand new AI division. Plus, more developments from Stability AI, Princeton, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA GTC, Saudi Arabia, Pika Labs, and Buildbox. Here's everything going on in AI right now:
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Computing Power Concentration: Tech Giants Dominate AI Model Training
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It is interesting to see a key truth about the current state of AI play out over and over again. Only a few organizations have the compute needed to train GPT-4 class & beyond models. Key small AI labs may have a lot of talent & ideas, but only 4-5 tech giants have the servers.
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Siemens and NVIDIA Deepen Industrial Metaverse Collaboration
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Siemens and NVIDIA Deepens Collaboration for Industrial #Metaverse https://
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Legacy Media Decline: Social Platforms Reshape Information Distribution
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What changed in the last five years is that an increasing segment of the audience is no longer gated by legacy media. X, youtube and other platforms can give better reach and more effective messaging than approving reporting by CNN or NYT. This trend is unlikely to reverse
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Competitive GPU Destruction Metaphor in AI Hardware Wars
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erecting the rostra on top of the burned out GPUs of our enemies
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Unusual Cooperation and Competition Dynamics Emerging Throughout AI Industry
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Weird coopertition everywhere in AI
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Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet Now Available on Google Cloud Vertex AI
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We’re excited to share that Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet are now generally available on @googlecloud
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AI Favors Large Data-Rich Companies Says Cisco CEO
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The rise of AI will tend to favor large, data-rich companies over smaller upstarts, according to @Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. “This is a revolution that actually favors incumbents with large datasets,” he said. https://
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Why Major AI Players Make Seemingly Inexplicable Business Moves
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Any time you see business news about inexplicable acquisitions, strategies and alliances among major AI players, it is worth thinking about this It isn’t the only explanation, all the usual management & bandwagon effects apply, but it is a bigger one than many people realize.