Apple is building a new AI coding tool for Xcode to rival Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. The tool is aimed to improve developer efficiency and potentially reduce costs. My eyes are on WWDC in June for some big Apple AI reveals
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Reddit Grants AI Firm $60M Annual Content Access Deal
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Reddit has reportedly signed a $60M annual deal granting an AI firm access to its user-generated content for model training. Data is the new gold, and social media platforms are the goldmines. Notably, the deal is coming prior to the company’s upcoming IPO ($$).
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Sam Altman’s $7T AI Venture and Project Izanagi Merger Discussion
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$100 Billion is an insane amount of money, but almost seems puny compared to Sam's $7T. While Project Izanagi and Sam Altman's venture are seperate, the two have reportedly spoken about potentially ‘joining forces’.
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SoftBank launches Project Izanagi: $100B AI chip venture
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SoftBank founder and billionaire Masayoshi Son is reportedly looking to raise $100B to launch ‘Project Izanagi’.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 février 2024
The AI chip venture aims to compete with NVIDIA and push towards AGI.
$30B is potentially from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern backers. pic.twitter.com/5bpX6pDcAHSoftBank founder and billionaire Masayoshi Son is reportedly looking to raise $100B to launch ‘Project Izanagi’. The AI chip venture aims to compete with NVIDIA and push towards AGI. $30B is potentially from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern backers.
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Masayoshi Son raises $100B for new AI chip venture
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AI NEWS: Japanese multi-billionaire Masayoshi Son is raising $100B for a new AI chip venture. Plus, more developments over the weekend from Reddit, Mistral AI, Apple, ElevenLabs, the NBA, and Air Canada. Here's everything you need to know:
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Enterprise ChatGPT Team and Public AI Solutions Stack
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The enterprise-constrained ones are the big win for me (my co is on ChatGPT Team). Was looking at public ones to complement our GPT stack.
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LeCun Now Imitates Former Critic After Years of Opposition
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The great irony is that after all the years LeCun spent bashing me, he’s now my closest imitator. #karma
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OpenAI Feature Removal Frustrates Users Online
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That is so annoying. Thanks for sharing. OpenAI – bring it back.
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Concentration in AI: balancing efficiency against centralization risks
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yep. while concentration has many advantages, the challenge is that 'centralization' and 'Orwellian' tend to rhyme
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Gemini 1.5 Pro Achieves 99.2% Accuracy on 10M Token Context
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Yes, yes, and yes “For text, Gemini 1.5 Pro achieves 100 percent recall up to 530k tokens, 99.7 percent up to 1M tokens, and 99.2 percent accuracy up to 10M tokens”
